QA Automation Tester (USC/GC, Only on W2)

Note: Candidate need to come for a Face-Face Interview for the 2nd round

• Strong experience on Automation using Selenium, ReadyAPI and Rest Assured.
• Experience in Microservice, REST API Testing and Automation
• Proven experience within test automation development, using frameworks and tools like Junit, TestNG, Appium, Cucumber, Postman as well as REST/JSON APIs
• Experience in Atlassian tools (Jira, Stash, Bamboo) for Project Management and Defect Tracking.
• Messaging/IVR Testing
• Apply AI-enabled quality engineering techniques to support debugging, test case generation, and risk analysis, helping advance Hilton's AI-enhanced engineering pipeline.
• Build and implement SQL queries and validate databases using an automation tool
• Experience on usage of swagger documentation for API validations.
• Experience on Kafka topics and consumer validations.
• Design, develop and deliver automated API & UI testing using Java with WebDriver / TestNG and services testing using Groovy scripting with JMeter / SoapUI /API
• Contribute to Enterprise Test Automation Frameworks when needed
• Provide accurate estimates for test strategy, design, and execution work
• Document, communicate, and escalate test results and defects
• Apply Jenkins / Maven / Git / Stash for continuous integration and version control of automation artifacts
• As needed, coordinate activities between the US and remote testing teams
• Critical thinking to translate sophisticated application flows to test cases
• Hands-on engineer with the ability to code in various programming languages (preferably in Java), JavaScript, SQL, etc. to automate tests for the full solution stack (UI, App Layer, REST API, Web Service)
• Verifiable experience in building and deploying CI systems such as Jenkins, and Bamboo. Hands-on experience building CI automation pipelines using Jenkins, Docker
• Data-driven, with strong problem-solving skills with analytical capabilities to be able to support theories/solutions using underlying data
• Knowledge of Cloud-based Web Applications Architecture
• Knowledge of deployment technologies with emphasis on AWS Cloud
• Experience using the Selenium Grid for parallel execution of Test Cases in Multiple Browsers
• Knowledge of Extent Reports 2.0, Eclipse IDE, and Java for developing the Automation Scripts
• Experience in developing Feature Files using Gherkins language for the BDD
• Experience with the Postman, ReadyAPI with Groovy scripting to Test the APIs.
• Detailed understanding of concurrency, threading, algorithms, and data structures
• Knowledge of using the No-SQL databases like Couchbase, JMeter, or BlazeMeter for the performance testing of the APIs
• Front End UI experience in HTML, CSS, and Javascript.