Test Automation Specialist

The Role

Test Automation Specialist is responsible for leveraging testing methodologies and practices, analyze requirements/stories, design testing strategies, coordinate across multiple streams and applications, work with Agile teams to develop automation and testing solutions. As an active collaborator across different project teams, the incumbent is responsible for leading standups, discussions & retrospectives from QA perspective and is expected to use testing best practices to evolve the product solution and ensure working products are delivered seamlessly with quality and within budget and timelines.

• Conducts and adjusts testing methods and practices to assess and evolve product
• Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans. Select appropriate test tools. Align test cases to requirements and user stories.
• In conjunction with the development team, collaborate, design and build automated and manual tests, develop/create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back‑end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks.
• Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience.
• Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team.
• Conduct exploratory testing to find bugs that other testing means would not find during every sprint and drive testing workshops.
• Wherever possible, conduct functional test and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components)
• Working knowledge in Automation frameworks, developing, designing and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), test
  
  NG, any one of behaviour driven development(BDD) or Test driven development(TDD frameworks like Karate and Cucumber)
• Thorough experience with data extraction, transformations and conversion testing
• Ability to produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases.
• Analyze industry best practices to recommend improvements to methodology, test environments and workflow to promote an efficient and cost‑effective UAT process.
• Collaborate actively with the development team, Product Owners, B/As
• Embed with development teams and infuse quality in every phase of the software development lifecycle by providing continuous feedback from QA standpoint regarding standards, user experience, possible performance issues, and future bugs.
• Participate in product design and requirements analysis, work with the team during project planning to accurately estimate work (data creation, test cases/acceptance test design, test execution, automation framework design/improvements, scripting tasks, setup environments, etc) and scope release deliverables (prioritizing defects and bugs).
• Lead end user focused testing activities and inform how product needs to be evolved
• Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases and adjusting approach where required
• Troubleshoot when problems arise and contribute to their resolution in a hands‑on manner when necessary

• Associate degree or B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology or Equivalent Education / Work experience
• Test automation experience with 5+ years of hands on experience.
• Experience in analyzing the testing scope and developing work estimates
• Experience in creating Test Strategies/Test Plans.
• QA analyst with minimum 2+ years of leading testing activities
• API specific testing Experience with 2+ years of hands on experience
• UI/Database/Backend (mainframe) testing experience
• Experience working in Cloud applications
• Experience working with both Agile methodology and Waterfall SDLC
• Good Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
• White Box testing following QA principles, practices and methodologies
• Good understanding of UAT standards and methodologies
• Experience writing test documentation such as Test Plans, scripts and test results reports
• Ability to…