Associate Software Test Automation Engineer

As a QE engineer, you will work in a product development team that develops highly configurable software in a collaborative environment employing agile development methodologies. As an individual contributor, you participate in the entire life cycle of product development and contribute to build quality product offerings. In conjunction with development engineers, you will design and implement strategies and tools for efficient and comprehensive automated testing.

 Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Analyze Business and Technical Requirements:

·         Assess compatibility of requirements with company quality standards

·         Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of product requirements

·         Develop detailed acceptance requirements for use cases (user stories)

Test planning & Design, Test Execution and Reporting:

·         Understand the system design in order to contribute to the development of the project and ensure the quality of the result

·         Design, develop, organize, and maintain functional and non-functional test cases

·         Identify potential risks and seek testing approaches to manage that risk

·         Develop, implement and maintain automated test scripts

·         Execute test cases for Functional, Regression, Performance, Load, Integration, System, GUI

·         Analyze defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible, and clearly document issues and bugs

·         Work towards in debugging and fixing defects, retesting and resolving open issues

Development and enhancement of automation frameworks:

·         Work closely with developers, architects to understand underlying architecture and code in order to develop test strategies across different layers of the application

·         Understand test automation needs, task out work, and provide feedback on design solutions

·         Develop toolsets, frameworks for test automation

·         Extend, enhance, update the existing automation frameworks to work with new services and write end-to-end automation for user scenarios (UI, service layer, API, integration, and performance testing)

·         Automate newly integrated features

·         Assist or lead the scrum team in ensuring comprehensive coverage using automated testing, as well as manual where appropriate

·         Effectively communicate with project leaders and Engineering Management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts

·         Communicate and report out the testing efforts and technical aspects of projects

Qualifications

Education:

·         Bachelor's degree in computer Engineering/science or similar field, or equivalent industry experience required.

 Required Experience & Skills:

·         Max of 2 years of experience in software development, testing, automation engineering

·         Experience in developing, enhancing test automation frameworks

·         Experience configuring environments for testing using virtual machines

·         Experience working in agile development environment with strong knowledge in agile development and testing practices

·         Experience creating test automation based on functional/business requirements

·         Experience in load testing of complex enterprise software systems

·         Proven problem solving, troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, and the capacity to think creatively under pressure

 Preferred Qualifications & Experience:

·         Freshers or Max 2 years of experience in software development, testing, automation engineering

·         Exposure with API testing / framework creation

·         Experience with Tosca / Selenium is a plus

·         Experience in DevOps is a plus