QA Automation Engineer (Permanent)

Responsibilities of this role Translating business and systems requirements into test strategy, test scenarios and test plans.
Designing, developing, documenting and maintaining optimized automated test scripts.
Rotational QE - On-call Support in Prod and Preprod infrastructure.
Adhering to Engineering Practices in development of automation framework.
Understand and apply BDD design concepts to test software solutions.
Delivering accurate and maintainable code for automation and software utilities.
Measure and Report key QE metrics.
Accessibility Testing on web browser pages.
Contribute towards Quality Engineering chapter initiatives.
Collaborating with other technical resources to:
o Suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and standards.
o Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

The Skills that are Key to this role
Apply proven analytical, problem-solving and quality assurance/testing skills to enhance and validate the quality of the software solutions.
Effectively communicating with stakeholders and providing up to date status of QE delivery.
Guide the team to build end to end test strategy.
Bring in cloud testing expertise.
Spearhead the automation coverage for a given system.
Ability to quickly learn, adapt and strive to meet the needs of a fast paced, changing environment.
Ability to navigate organizationally to accomplish tasks.
Ability to work on multiple efforts simultaneously.
Technical skills
5-6 years experience predominantly in software test/ Quality Engineering.
Deep expertise in different types of testing.
Hands-on Software Development in Test experience, which includes any of the following:
o 3+ years of using programming languages like JavaScript/Typescript/Java.
o 3+ years of automation scripting experience (not record and playback).
Good understanding of BDD, CI-CD and DevOps concepts is mandatory.
Expertise in following is required:
o Playwright Automation Tool
o Web Browser Testing
o Mobile Device Validation
o Validation of RESTful web services
o Jenkins (CI/CD Pipelines)
Experience in the following is a strong plus:
o Graph QL
o Client, Server Architecture
o Cloud certification in (AWS/Azure)
o Service Virtualization (Wire-Mock)
Understanding and working experience of Non-functional testing would be added plus.
o Accessibility Testing using (NVDA, JAWS)
o Chaos Testing, (Chaos Mesh, Chaos Buffet, Gremlin)
o Performance Testing (e.g. Rush Hour)
Role: Quality Assurance and Testing - Other
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Education
UG: Any Graduate
PG: Any Postgraduate