QA Automation Engineer

Description:

A successful candidate will solve interesting technical challenges whilst developing solutions that have a measurable impact to enable automation of testing app components and enable QA efficiencies. The candidate will work closely with developers, automation, and manual QA team members to implement strategies and procedures to deliver high quality test automation solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop common, reusable automation framework, server-side components and services that execute against the automation strategy and drive future improvements.
• Partner with multiple technology and automation teams to understand the flow, evolve automation architecture roadmap and deliver timely solutions to support the automation efforts.
• Evaluate, design, implement and integrate automated testing technologies for backend and component testing and evolve them as the technology changes.
• Develop automated testing strategies that can run in a CI/CD environment
• Set up an integration testing framework with mock endpoints so that apps can be quickly validated.
• Assist in planning, creation and control of test environments and test data.
• Suggest policies and procedures for test code (Unit Tests & Integration Tests)
• Enhance and extend existing test automation frameworks

Qualifications:

Technical:

• Expertise in building complex end to end automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity
• Proficiency Playwright framework using Typescript or JavaScript
• Experience with one of Object-Oriented Programming Languages such as Java, C++, C#
• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns, build and deployment phases.
• Proven ability to develop clean, testable code.
• Experience with build tools like Maven or Gradle
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Hands on experience with at least one Unit Testing framework such as JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, etc.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, e.g. Artifactory, Docker and OpenShift.
• 3+ years hands on experience in design, implementation, and maintenance of server-side automated testing solutions.
• Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL.
• Experience with project management software such as JIRA, Zephyr.
• Experience in BDD testing frameworks like Cucumber or SpecFlow
• Expertise in UI automation using TestComplete (Preferred) or Selenium, WebdriverIO, Cypress.
• Experience with automation of Desktop based apps is a plus
• Experience with API automation using Rest Assured, Postman
• Experience with Performance testing tools like JMeter
• Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols preferred.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Solution oriented
• Likes challenging tasks
• Strong passion for technology, with a keen interest in driving adoption of new technologies and tools.
• Self-motivated individual and with ability to manage own work slate.
• Excellent collaborative skills; ability to work with others and contribute to global projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-pace environment; flexible and able to deliver results in the required timeframe

Education:

• Bachelor's degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology or similar)

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Technology Quality

Time Type:
Full time

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