Sr Quality Automation Engineer

As a Senior Quality Automation Engineer- you will work within an agile- cross-functional team to validate production features and functionality against documented requirements and specifications while adhering to strict Quality Engineering and SDLC best practices. This role will collaborate on requirements and design- write test cases- test new features and updates- and be responsible for the establishment and growth of automated testing and an automated regression testing policy. This position requires a well-organized- experienced Quality Engineering leader to work independently while demonstrating a strong understanding of automation testing within software development. This role also offers a unique opportunity to be a central part in our shift to fully automated testing that involves Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). The position will become part of a newly formed- growing quality engineering team.

As a successful candidate- you are results-driven and bring strong quality engineering and specifically automation skills and a deep understanding of SDLC. You are a person of high integrity- who believes in challenging the status quo when needed- while always first seeking to understand.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Conduct exploratory testing and risk analysis for complex features- e.g.- those that span across platforms or teams.
• Understand and apply automated testing approaches such as model-based testing or record-and-replay.
• Conduct necessary testing on the web applications and mobile devices- as needed.
• Support user acceptance testing conducted by business partners or end users.
• Work closely with development teams to design testing strategies and integrate testing into the development process.
• Isolate- reproduce- manage- and maintain defects and test case databases- and verify fixes.
• Document and analyze test results and recommend corrective action.
• Plan- create- execute- and automate test cases- working with business partners- developers- and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate and share information with other software QA engineers- e.g.- by participating in a community of practice.
• Design- develop and implement automation testing (e.g.- regression- functional- data validation- system integration- load- performance- and/or visual tests) for new and existing functionality.
• Assist with implementing and/or testing data quality checks using Collibra data management tool- as needed.
• Test reports written in PowerBI or Tableau including data validation- visual testing- and functional testing.
• Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests.
• Enhance and maintain the test automation framework.
• Determine and implement quality metrics on digital product teams.
• Research- recommend- and implement new testing technologies and practices using artificial intelligence and other innovative testing practices.
• Help build and manage a strategy of continuous quality on the digital engineering teams.
• Champion and implement quality and testing best practices.

WHO YOU ARE

• Adaptability and willingness to learn.
• 3+ years of experience with developing or maintaining frontend and/or backend automation frameworks (e.g.- Selenium- Cypress- Puppeteer- Playwright- API- etc.).
• Attention to detail and ability to identify- isolate and document defects.
• Experience writing SQL to perform detailed data validation.
• Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science- Math- or related field; or equivalent industry experience.
• Collaboration skills and ability to work on a cross-functional team including business and technical partners.
• Experience with testing the output of or working with Power BI- Tableau- or other similar data visualization tools.
• Knowledge and experience with Excel and other Office 365 products.
• Strong knowledge of agile practices and experience with agile scrum ceremonies.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering with a progressive increase of responsibility.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Software development knowledge or experience with programming languages such as Python- Java- or Javascript as well as shell scripting.
• Experience testing on web and/or mobile applications.
• Experience designing and implementing test plans.
• Knowledge and experience with test automation and object-oriented programming best practices.
• Experience with test management tools (e.g.- Azure Devops- TestRail- XRay- Qtest- Quality Center).

Nice to Have:

• Possess applicable certifications such as through ISTQB or Microsoft Power Platform are a plus.
• Experience conducting automated performance testing is a plus.
• Experience developing or testing apps on the Microsoft Power Platform is a plus.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and observability tools is a plus.
• Experience working with AI-based testing or tools to augment test automation is a plus.
• Manual or automated API testing experience is a plus.
• Experience with data science- business intelligence engineering- and/or data engineering is a plus.

Technical Skills and Competencies

• Knowledge or experience in software development or data engineering with object-oriented programming skills.
• Strong SQL and data validation skills.
• Proven experience testing applications within a Microsoft environment (Microsoft Power Platform and Azure).
• Experience using agile planning/tracking tools such as Jira- Azure Devops- or other Kanban/Scrum tools.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for soliciting and sharing relevant information for a project from different teams.
• Strategic understanding of automation tools and frameworks- with hands-on ability to implement automated tests.
• Proven experience with Selenium and JavaScript or other similar frameworks and languages.