(335) QA Automation Developer - Judit Inc

JOB TITLE:

QA Automation Developer (335)

JOB LOCATION:

Taylor, TX

JOB TYPE:

Contract Hire

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Summary of Responsibilities:

You'll be a member of a team that supports the automation of smoke, regression, integration, and security test projects as assigned.

Works independently and with the guidance of Sr. Automation Developer to develop a comprehensive automation suite per application area per the overall Test Automation Framework. Leads efforts to validate business processes, procedures, systems integration and web services in order to design full suite of automation scripts. Adjust scripts as necessary.

Essential Job Duties

• Analyze and understand solution requirements, architecture, technical designs and processes to define necessary scope of automated testing.
• Define automation testing strategy and communicate strategy to relevant disciplines/stakeholders clearly and appropriately.
• Create automation test strategy and plan, develop and establish initial testing harness based on initial test scenarios and build detailed automated scripts per product design discussions.
• Ensure that automated testing is completed to agreed standards and that business and operational acceptance criteria are met.
• Liaise with other management and IT disciplines to ensure automated testing objectives are met.
• Participate when required in formal meetings with customers and subcontractors.
• Report to management on automated testing and quality requirements/activities, to identify deviations from plan and carry out corrective action.
• Performs automated functional, system, integration and regression testing
• Clearly communicates complex technical concepts both in a written and oral manner
• Implement and develop automated test practices for both web and thick client applications primarily using Selenium-JAVA and TestNG, but also Tricentis TOSCA
• Design and create test automation scripts using Selenium-JAVA, Core Java and/or VB Script to address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug testing, or usability in preparation for implementation.
• Work with QA & Test Management Manager, Sr. Automation Developer and Test Management Supervisor to define strategy and process associated with implementation and maintenance of automation across all supported application areas.
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules or potential problems that may impact the quality of automation regression suite or overall product features.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by the supervisor/manager from time to time, as may be reasonably required of them.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Oracle RDBMS. This includes competency with PL/SQL and a general familiarity with general concepts such as relational database analysis and design as well as SQL tuning.
• Tricentis qTest and JIRA.
• Experience with TOSCA test automation tool.
• Experience with Java based automated functional testing frameworks such as Selenium, Rest Assured for API’s or core Java for process automation. Selenium expertise is strongly preferred.
• Java unit testing frameworks such as Junit and TestNG. TestNG experience is preferred.
• Experience with creating and running web application performance tests. LoadRunner or Apache JMeter or Tricentis NeoLoad is preferred.
• Experience with general software development life cycle practices.
• Experience with general Software Quality Assurance/Quality Control testing techniques, standards, practices, and related technologies.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Sciences, Information Systems or related field or eight years applicable experience is required.

Work Experience

• Requires minimum 2 years related work experience in excess of degree requirements

COMPENSATION:

$60 per hour