Test Automation Consultant/Associate Manager

Consultant/Associate Manager PositionsCurrently 3-4 Consultant/Associate Manager positions are open in Minneapolis, MN and other locations across the Midwest. Preferred locations include Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Columbus. Salary for Manager ranges from $140-145K or $150K, and Sr Manager would be $5-10K more. For Associate Manager at level 8, the Chicago/Minneapolis location ZONE 2 base salary would be $123K + $5-7K sign on. For Consultant/Specialist – Base salary at Zone 2 would be $105K with a $5K sign-on.Candidates should have a minimum of 7-8 years' experience with Test Leadership & Management at the project and program level. Hands-on Automation Framework Development experience in any one of the following is required or must to have (Using Java or VBscript or.NET or C# etc). Person should know coding, experience with Continuous Integration, including two of the following build/deploy/version control tools: Jenkins with ADMIN Is a plus or Maven or Git, Mercurial, Subversion or Bamboo. Should be able to Implement end-to-end automation and tools strategies / roadmaps. AND should be able to Support DevOps implementations.Test Automation Consultant and Associate Manager Basic Qualifications:Minimum of 3/4 years of experience in Test Automation including planning, script development & maintenanceMinimum of 3/4 years of experience in software development in an Agile environmentMinimum of 3/4 years demonstrated experience in two of the following testing toolsets/frameworks: Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Protractor, SoapUI - TDD: using jUnit, TestNG, other - BDD: using Cucumber/Gherkin, Geb/SpockMinimum of 3/4 years demonstrated experience in two of the following: Java / J2EE, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, VB.NETDemonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including two of the following build/deploy/version control tools: Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Bitbucket, GitHub - Grunt, Gradle, Gulp, Maven, MS TFSPreferred Skills:Demonstrated understanding of application architecturesDemonstrated experience using TDD or BDDDemonstrated experience with virtualization using CA Service Virtualization, Rational Integration Server, Parasoft Virtualize or SmartBear Ready!APIDemonstrated experience with Nexus, Artifactory, NPM, Bower or similar