Quality Automation Engineer

Role: Quality Automation Engineer


Location: Saint Louis, Missouri


Duration: 12 Months

No H1B or OPT

Top Three Skills:


1. Quality Assurance - The ideal candidate understands the principles of testing.


2. Experience of testing applications involving technologies like Angular JS, web services, JSON


3. 3-5 years of experience with C#, Selenium


4. Automation - The ideal candidate will have automation experience with Gherkin or another automation tool.


5. Communication - This person will have to collaborate with their scrum teams daily.


Job Description:


Quality Automation Engineer



Job Summary
Our Quality Automation Engineer will work amongst the QA team to evaluate user stories, develop manual test plans, write and design automation scripts to ensure quality control standards are achieved. We need a Quality Automation Engineer who will be successful in growing, developing, and implementing automated testing solutions to maximize testing coverage and reduce test cycle time. We are looking for a team member who embraces the Agile mindset which includes positive attitude, thirst for knowledge, goal of team success, pragmatism and a willingness to fail.



Primary Responsibilities
• Evaluate existing automation framework and provide automation solution for building end to end regression suite
• Management of automated test suites for continuous integration & continuous regression testing, as well as for build smoke testing
• Document, maintain, and monitor software problems
• Recommend strategies and methods to improve test plans and test processes
• Maintain well organized records of test results and generate historical analysis of test results
• Participate in integration testing across all scrum teams
• Works with the different areas to build out an end to end testing environment and data solution that connect the different application areas. Understands and provides insight on the test infrastructure.
• Display critical, quality-oriented, skeptical thinking about the product
• Actively acquire information from stakeholders (rather than relying entirely on written specifications)
• Accurately evaluate and report test results, test progress, and product quality
• Work effectively to define testable user stories, especially acceptance criteria, with customer representatives and stakeholders
• Collaborate within the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members to develop subject matter expertise in product
• Respond to change quickly, including changing, adding, or improving test cases
• Plan and organize their own work in accordance with sprint deliverables
• Passion for quality and technical challenges, drive for automation which support Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• Flexible, proactive and innovative attitude
• Excellent knowledge of black/white-box test concepts including test automation



Tools & Technologies
• Experience of testing applications involving technologies like Angular JS, web services, JSON
• 3-5 years of experience with C#, Selenium
• Experience in validating the ingestion, transformation and ultimate loading of data into a data repository
• Experience with designing and executing automated acceptance tests written in a behavior-driven development (BDD) style preferably using Gherkin and Specflow
• Experience with testing in one or more of the following areas: business intelligence, data migration, ETL and data ingestion systems
• Experience with delivering comprehensive test strategies within a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment