Sr Automation Engineer

Sr. Automation EngineerLocation: Pleasanton California 94588 United States Position: HybridSoftware Development Engineers in Test are involved in all aspects of quality assurance activities for a scrum team. Working closely with other Quality Engineers, SDETs, Developers and Product Managers, SDETs leverage and grow their knowledge to design effective test solutions (manual and automated) to ensure a high-quality product for customers. Responsibilities:Develop, automate, and maintain highly effective test cases in a CI/CD environment during each sprint of the Agile life cycleContinuously curate and enhance test case repository, automated tests, framework, and tool sets to meet best practices and standardsAnalyze, troubleshoot, and triage product and automation issuesDocument, investigate and communicate defects discovered during test executionParticipate in all Scrum ceremonies, representing QA to provide estimates, test status and risk assessmentWork closely with scrum team to understand features, articulate problems, and influence the quality and design of our productsContribute to process improvements and refinement of QA practices to deliver high quality product from release to releaseTechnical Skills (Must Have): 8+ years of experience working in software quality assurance with at least 3 years building automated test solutions Front-end and back-end automation using tools such as Selenium, Appium, and REST Assured Object oriented programming experience in Java or C# SQL Source Control (e.g. Git)Technical Skills (Nice to Have): CI with Jenkins or Azure Containerization with Kubernetes IDE like Intellij or Visual Studio Ability to develop and execute test strategy for web or windows applications having a high degree of complexity