QA Automation Engineer

As Quality Assurance Automation Engineer you'll be contributing to the development, innovation and user experience of our products.  

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Providing test automation and expertise within an agile software development team
• Creating/updating tests for broad and deep coverage across app functionality and codebase
• Working collaboratively with engineering to identify test cases and suites best for automation
• Planning and executing performance tests using tools like JMeter
• Working with other DHI QA resources to enhance/expand existing automation framework
• Troubleshooting and providing failure analysis of issues identified from the automation suite

For this role, we're requiring:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Applied knowledge of QA methodologies and best practices
• Applied understanding of tested web applications that involved technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, responsive design, JSON and REST to be accessed on multiple platforms, including mobile and desktops
• Ability to analyze automated test results and metrics, perform root cause failure analysis
• Strong SQL knowledge – responsible for complex data validation
• Understanding of web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JS, responsive design, etc.)
• Ability to write and execute detailed test cases that exercise all aspects of the system under test
• Ability to distinguish defects from enhancement requests
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Effective time management skills

Education, Experience

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience testing web-based applications with a strong background in building comprehensive automated frameworks
• Experience with common automated testing frameworks and platforms across Java and open source languages, including Gherkin (SpecFlow, Cucumber, etc.), Selenium, Rest Assured, JMeter, Appium or other mobile test automation framework
• Experience working in AWS and utilizing AWS technologies
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools: Jenkins or others
• Experience working in an enterprise environment with agile software development methodologies
• Experience writing test scripts in Javascript and executing in Cypress 

Compensation

$80,000 - $110,000 base salary per year, plus 10% annual bonus at 100% of plan targets tied to company and individual performance. Offer will depend on location and level of knowledge, skills, abilities and experience.