Senior Automation Tester

Role: Senior Automation Tester

Location: Remote

Duration: Long Term Contract

Task Description:

Provide support and assistance to design development integrate test and deploy a modernized BMF platform and also support daytoday Operations & Maintenance (O&M) work based on IRS priorities. Provide for project management O&M development modernization enhancements software development legislative changes and developmental O&M upgrades. Seeking an Automation Tester with experience building test automation solutions & frameworks and performs testing using automation across the test delivery. Seeking someone with deep skills in programming automation tools and core testing along with good depth in business domain/processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Automate testing across the application SOA architecture at UI API Services Microservices Performance Data Integration and layers across technologies cloudbased application Web / Desktop PaaS Devices Browsers Client server.
• Designs and develop automation solution and frameworks that can be used by functional testers to perform automated testing.
• Understand functional requirements design optimized test scenarios Test modelling concepts identify the test cases and code these to be integrated with application code and CICD DevOps pipeline for continuous test case creation automated test execution for functional performance integration test and reporting.
• Direct and work along with team to build optimized test scenarios develop models and BDD/TDD framework for developing test cases develop automation execute test cases resolve technical issues manage defect cycle mentor and enable skills of the team and to provide technical direction to the team.
• Deep skills in core automated testing technical testing business domain testing method/tools in Agile methodologies and CICD delivery.

Required skills/Level of Experience:

• Minimum of 6 years experience in automated testing for SOA cloudbased application for functional integration Web Services Micros Services Web API Regression Performance and volume testing
• Minimum of 6 years of experience or expertise using managing and/or testing API Gateway tools and Rest APIs
• Minimum of 6 years of experience with test automation frameworks and tools e.g. Junit TestNG Selenium SOAP UI ReadyAPI Parasoft SOAtest w/Loadtest LOADRUNNER GitHub Eggplant Subject7 JIRA JMETER IBM Rational tools RFT EWM ELM ETM.
• Experience in installing configuring troubleshooting testing software licensing security certificates and applying changes to build test architecture for integration regression and performance testing.
• Experience in writing test steps/cases/data from team discussions and use cases
• Proven Experience with developing automated testing and configuring testing tools and test execution
• Create and enhance test cases ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Collaborate with developers business analyst and quality assurance teams to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Promote best practices for test automation including maintainable code reusable components and efficient test data management.
• Execute automated tests as part of the continuous integration and delivery pipeline
• Experience working in cloud environment and Maestro suite (JIRA and Confluence)
• Experience in testing technologies such as REST APIs and Apache Kafka
• Experienced working in Agile teamwork CICD (continuous integrationcontinuous development) delivery
• Take initiative in writing unit tests and actively contribute to enhancing the existing testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Execute regression test scripts within a QA environment in a manual and automatic fashion to support scheduled and unscheduled releases.
• Perform analysis of document report escalate triage and resolve issues / defects / bugs found during testing
• Cyber security concepts and testing a plus (SSL TLS digital certificates) for vulnerability and enhancement testing