Job Title: Sr. Automation Engineer
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Job Location: Morris Plains, NJ (Remote to start)
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# Positions: 1
Employment Type: W2
Candidate Constraints:
Duration: Long Term
# of Layers: 0
Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers
Key Technology:
JavaScript, TypeScript, UI and API Automation
Job Responsibilities:
- Understand various back-end and front-end architecture components required to formulate test strategies
- Works with both onsite (Scrum Master, Product, QA and Developers) and offshore QA team members in properly defining testable scenarios based on requirements/acceptance criteria
- Helps define test data criteria and partners with Data team to obtain the data.
- Participates in sprint-level, integration and regression test planning and execution.
- Designs and develops scripts to run automated tests to ensure consistency, repeatability and accelerates delivery.
- Determines priorities for test scenarios and creates effective execution plans.
- Performs manual (where needed) and exploratory testing.
- Performs defect reporting.
- Analyzes regression or smoke test failure patterns and determine corrective actions to eliminate the errors completely.
- Adheres to the organization’s Quality Engineering best practices while helping to drive changes to our testing practices where necessary.
Skills and Experience Required:
Required:
- 7+ years of solid experience in developing and executing automation tests for either web or mobile applications.
- Hands on experience in Javascript and Typescript programming languages
- UI & API Automation framework experience using Cypress for web and/or WebdriverIO for mobile.
- Experience in business requirement analysis, test design, defect logging and tracking
- Experience in Git based source control tools like GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket and build tools like Maven and Gradle.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environment
- Solid experience in testing methodologies, software testing principles and test management tools like Jira or Rally
- Healthcare domain knowledge
- AWS experience
- Solid experience in both web and mobile testing
- Experience with SQL and Database testing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid analytical skills, highly organized, self-motivated and a quick learner
- Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities as necessary.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or Engineering or related coursework