Lead Automation Test Engineer

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system integration testing including automation of newly developed or enhanced applications.
• Responsible for reviewing requirements and design artifacts developing unit integration and system test cases ensuring extensive test coverage for our cloud application.
• Play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete results.
• Lead develop and advise on test automation strategies and provide critical feedback in requirements design implementation and execution phases.
• Develop and improve next generation Test Engineering Automation solutions in a Continuous Integration environment.
• Define design development documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and next gen Software Platforms/Frameworks as part of an Agile team
• Partner with different collaborators Product Management Application Development DevOps and other technical teams.
• Supplies to the Automation development of endtoend regression.
• Works closely with business and AD domain experts to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for assigned applications/systems.
• Responsible for Project Coordination and Technical Management tasks

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Proven min experience of 57 years with automated unit and integration testing
• Bachelors degree and/or equivalent experience preferred.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Experienced in Agile/Waterfall onsite/offshore work model and coordination.
• In depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle (specifically the testing model methodology and processes)
• Experience with Test Engineering methodologies and Test Automation Frameworks
• Expert and hands on automation at all software layers (e.g. UI services APIs etc.) as well as CI/CD technologies (e.g. Cloudbees Jenkins Cucumber Git JUnit Jira etc.).
• Sophisticated java / Selenium development skills with significant experience applying those skills in test environments.
• Extensive experience with testing modern scripting languagebased components.
• Experience with frontend & backend testing.
• Experience in writing sophisticated SQL queries.
• Experience with JIRA Microfocus ALM Bitbucket Git and Jenkins
• Demonstrable ability with test data management is a plus.
• Detailed understanding of smoke testing blackbox and nonblack box testing as well as regression testing
• Experienced in an Agile/DevOps environment in collaboration with BAs product owners and application developers.
• Requires the ability to work well with both business clients and technical team and the ability to work independently both individually and as part of a team.
• Experienced in mentoring more junior Test engineers verifying work products and providing mentorship as needed.
• API testing Python and AWS experience in a plus
• Requires a functional understanding of distributed and/or mainframe test environments.