Our ideal candidate should have a perfect blend of software developer and QA automation skill sets.
- Deep knowledge of test automation methodologies and current industry trends and uses.
- A good understanding of databases (relational, dimensional, and flattened).
- Ability to identify, analyze and recommend alternatives and resolve complex testing problems You have proven expertise in test automation in Cloud Computing.
- Write and manage test cases in a test case management tool such as Jira.
- Experience working in Agile projects and teams.
- Experience with regressions, performance, and load testing.
- Ability to develop and execute test strategy/plans and test cases for highly complex products to ensure client requirements are met and product is delivered free of errors.
- Understanding of and experience in all aspects of testing from unit, integration, system, functional, and regression to acceptance.
- Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC best/proven practices in Software Testing and Quality Assurance, and Risk Based Testing.
- Ability to assess perceived quality, business/consumer impact and functional/technical risk.
- Understand and communicate the impact of scope changes / project change requests to the PM team both from a time, cost, and risk perspective.
- Experience working in fast-paced / Start-up environment.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills; effectively communicate in verbal and written form.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and team building skills.
LOCATION
San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto
EMPLOYMENY TYPE
Permanent
What You’ll Do
- Establishing / refining an automation test strategy and plan for a platform comprising of various APls, mobile and web applications.
- Continuously create and integrate automated test suites with development pipeline thereby enhancing the automation framework as well as expanding the automation coverage.
- Work with the product team in reviewing user story requirements and provide timely feedback.
- Identifying underlying test cases, and collaborate with the team members in design, and Implementation of automation test plans.
- Identify, isolate and document the origin of bugs in software and outline the steps to reproduce them in a bug tracking system.
- Assist with the prioritization of testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestones, activities and tasks are completed as scheduled.
Must have skills
- University or College degree in Computer, Engineering, Science or other quantitative discipline.
- 6+ years of comprehensive end-to-end automation testing experience.
- 2+ years of testing mobile applications.
- 3+ years of experience in UI and test API automation.
- Must have Python skills.
- Proficient in a programming or scripting language e.g., JavaScript, Java, gherkin, and others
- Expert experience with test automation tools and scripts, like Selenium (e.g., Cucumber, gherkin, Puppeteer, and others).
- Advanced experience with Test Case Management tools, like Xray (e.g., Zephyr, ALM, and others)
- Advanced experience with Java Testing Frameworks, like Robot Framework (e.g., Junit, TestNG and others).
- Experience working with SCM, CI/CD and other software like GitHub (and Jenkins, Bitbucket and JIRA).
- Ability to write test automation scripts for RESTful APIs, user interface (UI) testing using tools such as Selenium, WedDriver, Appium, and/or SOAP UI
- Extensive experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, JMeter and others).
- Experience with performance test, monitoring and metrics collection tools.
- Knowledge and/or experience with technologies/frameworks like Java/Spring Boot, J2EE, RESTful APIs, UML, OO design patterns, SOA, Agile Development Methodology and Open-source messaging bus.
- Experience or understanding of various design approaches including Service-Oriented design, REST APIs, Open API, event-driven architecture, mobile technologies and distributed technologies
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