Principal QA Automation Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Recommends new tools, techniques and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality.
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale applications.
• Collaborate with product teams to strategize & align long term solution for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework & approach.
• Evaluate, select, and formulate best usage of test automation tools and future alignment for different products and applications.
• Create a standard framework for Functional Automation, Performance Testing and Security and Penetration Testing. Presents technical documentation for review by peers and Development community.
• To work with QA team for resolution of technical issues of the product as needed.
• Develop automation strategy to support regression testing based on the technical analysis, complexity, and reusability.
• Responds appropriately and competently to the demands of work challenges when confronted with changes, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures.

Required Knowledge/Skills

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field
• 10+ years in Software Quality Assurance.
• Good knowledge in OOPS programming concepts and minimum 6 years of experience in programming languages like Java, Java Script.
• 8+ years’ hands on experience in development, execution, and maintenance of automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, Cypress etc.
• Minimum 5 year of working experience with development patterns such as TDD and BDD.
• Expert in automation frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, NUnit.
• Expert in suggesting, creating, tweaking frameworks based on the team needs.
• Experience with web service technology like XML, REST, SOAP
• Minimum 3 years of working experience on designing API Automation frameworks using. RestAssured, Karate, httpclient etc.
• Good experience in Service layer automation using httpclient.
• Minimum 3 year of working experience with build management tool like Jenkins, etc. especially in creating CI/CD Pipelines as per team needs.
• Good Database testing skills on RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres, SQL server etc.
• Knowledge and experience with application performance test plan design.
• Proficient with Unix/Linux systems.
• Good experience with code reviews using tools like codecollaborator, etc.
• Ability to understand automation framework requirements and design test framework and its execution end-to-end.
• Ability to actively participate in engineering design reviews and provide quality input.
• Experience driving engineering Quality Standards
• Experience building Testing Strategy in an Agile Scrum environments.
• Strong experience in product development process improvements with a goal to improve quality.
• Experience with bug tracking tools and version control systems (Jira/Perforce/SVN/Bugzilla/GIT/GitFlow)
• Partner with development engineers in design review, code review and solution definition discussions.
• Good knowledge on performance testing tools like JMeter etc.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services): Proficiency in AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation. Experience in deploying and managing applications in AWS cloud environments.