QA Analyst III

Test Automation EngineerSubmission deadline for interview selection is 10/02 @3PM CT. We would like to start with candidates local to the MN Richfield Corp Office and then move on to non-local. Candidate will only need to come into office for design sessions.- Initial 12 months contract to start - Very likely to be longer-termed/ongoingBusiness Overview: Tell us about your department: Best Buy’s Customer Relationship and Engagement Technology department consists of several teams supporting various customer experience aspects (e.g., user account, browse, search, cart, checkout). This specific role will be part of the Personalization Services (Psychic) Team. The Personalization Services (Psychic) Team at Best Buy is responsible for leveraging user data and to build ML or rule-based models that are utilized to personalize the online user experience on the dotcom systems and mobile app.Project Description: This team builds and manages highly scalable and performant APIs and pipelines that are deployed to two different public cloud data centers. The team follows Agile methodology to manage delivery of application features.Position Summary/Job Description: In this role, you will be part of a high-performance engineering team that partners with various domain teams at Best Buy to deliver innovative solutions that improve the customer dotcom experience. You will partner with BSAs, Product Managers and Engineers to validate the system against the requirements with automated tests. You will be expected to maintain the thoroughness needed to be able to rapidly deliver automated test suites with a dev-ops slant.We are looking for a highly skilled test automation engineer to design automation tests. Test automation engineer’s duties include designing automation scripts and finding solutions for automation problems. You should also be committed to developing skills in order to provide up-to-date solutions. To be successful as a test automation engineer, you should be exceptionally accurate and possess a superior mathematical aptitude. Ultimately, a top-notch test automation engineer will be proficient in programming languages and have excellent time management skills.Job ResponsibilitiesResponsible for planning, design, development and execution of test processes, test plans and test scripts. Primarily you will design and implement automated and occasionally manual test suites in an Agile environment.Establish and maintain bidirectional requirements traceability to test cases. Utilizes proficiency and strong hands-on experience in developing both manual and automated test scripts.Drive the current API test automation frameworks and current QA processes and develop and execute manual/automated test scripts using Cucumber and Java/Groovy.Implement test assertions using groovy closures to test API JSON responses.Build Jenkins pipeline jobs and schedule CRON jobs to have automated tests run through it.Active participation in – Standups, Sprint Planning, Refinement meetings, Retrospections, and all the QA team related meetings.Own the deliverables such as Test Reports, Test Cases & quality of the code in the module/features you work, and the quality of the product tested.Be an active participant in all the CI/CD activities and own the code promotion to higher environments when scheduled.Collaborating with QA Analysts and Software Developers to develop test automation solutions.Must be prepared to pair program in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.Mentoring other team members in improving their automation skills.Keeping updated with the latest industry developments.Skills OverviewWhat are the top six skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job? At least 5 years of experience for all the followingProficiency in programming languages such as Java, GroovyExperience with Selenium or any other automation testing frameworks.Experience with Behavior Driven Development for automation using Cucumber.Experience with configuration and integration of test suites to run on automated build tools like Jenkins.Experience with API testing tools. Postman is preferable.Proficient with writing and executing SQL queries to retrieve data from Relational/NoSQL databases.BS/MS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent professional experience)What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?Understanding of Junit and Spock Testing frameworks.Experience with Version control systems. GitHub is a plus.Experience with JIRA and ConfluenceAny level of experience with NoSQL data stores (Cassandra,) and/or Splunk is a plus.Experience performance testing using Apache JMeter or equivalent tools.Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for developmentDevOps infrastructure experienceHighly accurate and detail oriented.Excellent mathematical and problem-solving skills.Will there be a Hacker Rank test Required for this REQ? There will be a coding test.