Automation Engineer

Automation EngineerThe Automation Engineer tests, creates, implements and supports robotics process and desktop automations. Performs design, scripting, testing, implementing, maintaining and modifying automations of moderate complexity, significance, and risk. Creates comprehensive test plans and test cases; defines automation data needs across systems and creates a plan to coordinate this test data. Creates and executes performance tests to ensure the expected automation performance levels are achieved. Performs, and at times, leads clients and technical staff to investigate, analyze, and resolve technical problems. Writes documentation that describes automation capabilities and operating procedures. Estimates and defines time tables and project tasks; analyzes and estimates cost and time. Conducts analysis of organizational needs for the creation and implementation of automation solutions; participates in feasibility assessments of new automation opportunities and helps determine best approach for automation.Essential Responsibilities:Build and maintain backend and frontend test automation frameworks, assisting development teams to catch issues in development and testing phase before pushing to productionWork cross teams to understand testing requirements and create a comprehensive test plan and create automation and provide sign off and communicate it with stakeholdersBe a champion having a test mindsetLead the development of testing frameworks which can process and validate massive amounts of Data. Thus an experience of streaming platform like Kafka, Flink or equivalent is necessaryLead the API driven testing experience. Expertise of working with API, such as REST, GraphQL or gRPCLead customer engagement and drive and participate in validation of patches and releasesWill work with the development team closely to add integration tests and contribute to improve Unit test code coverageEvaluate open-source test automation frameworksPerform code review of test team. Develop UI tests using Selenium Web Driver and clientD. Write backend integration tests and tests for RESTful APIs. Implement Test Automation while driving processes to reduce manual test coverage. Demonstrated expertise in black box and grey box testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools. Instilling best practices for test suite automation and frameworks and documentation. Strong knowledge of Agile testing methodologies and best practices. Experience in OOP and performance testing. Understanding of web, mobile and desktop technologies. Implement and execute test strategies on all supported platforms to help improve overall quality and test codeBasic Qualifications:Master's/Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experienceThree to five years of relevant experience.Strongly Preferred Skills/Experience:Experience in UI device/browser-based test automation using Testcafe or Cypress or java w/ Appium/SeleniumKnowledge of common open-source frameworks such as Page-Object modelsStrong experience with test-driven development approaches such as clientD, leveraging tools like Cucumber, Cypress etc.Experience with cloud-based test automation solutions such as SeeTestExperience with integrated test execution and reporting though automated ci/cd pipelinesTesting experience in Python, Java, Golang or equivalent is preferred.Preferred Skills/Experience:At least 7+ years of experience with developing and maintaining backend and frontend Test automation frameworksBS/MS degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent engineering discipline/experienceExpertise in designing and building test automation frameworks which can process and validate massive amounts of dataExpertise in JUnit, Test NG, Selenium or equivalent test automation frameworksExpertise in development of test automation working with Api suca as Rest, GraphQL or gRPCExpertise on test driven development, developing different levels of automated tests such as unit test, integration test, functional test, system test or Load and performance test.Experience with open source logging and reporting solutions (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Splunk)Working knowledge of Angular, ReactJS, or equivalent frameworks unit testing libraries such as jest, enzyme etc.Experience using source code control systems (Stash/GIT/GitLab)Open Source tools development, implementation, and/or collaboration experienceWorking Developing applications using microservice architectureAbility to analyze and troubleshoot and implement enhancements to test automation frameworkStrong written & verbal communication skills.Database development experience (MongoDB, Redis, SQL/MySQL/NoSQL)Experience in an agile development environment as part of a team of engineers, developers and testersExperience with open source message bus solutions (Kafka)Multi-vendor system integration experience