QA Automation

Job Profile

The ideal candidate will perform software quality assurance testing across multitude of business domains and is proficient with various automation tools and techniques. The individual should be well experienced with functional testing, possess good automation testing skills, and take ownership of items independently while tracking to closure. The candidate will liaise with local and global teams to understand requirements, create test cases (e.g., unit, component, multi-component), as well as automate and deliver projects. The position requires attention to detail, coupled with ownership, to ensure the delivery of high-quality applications. Candidate will work as part of an Agile squad and interact with other squad members as well as external stakeholders including business and technology partners (local as well as global) across Wealth Management, infrastructure team, architecture team to deliver the objectives.

Job Functions/Duties and Responsibilities

• Work as part of an Agile Squad/Fleet, on QA processes with heavy focus on execution of automation with various automation tools and techniques
• Contribute to Automation Frameworks and automate testcases ensuring comprehensive test-coverage.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of project/release including automation from QA perspective.
• Develop utilities and customized frameworks aligning with DevOps practices.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate test and automation activities independently.
• Review quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Record and document debugging procedures.
• Track test metrics, such as test coverage, defect densities, and open defect counts, to gain and share insights about quality issues.
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases following company standards within required timeframes.

Skills Required

• 5-7 years of proven work experience in QA with an emphasis on QA automation.
• 4+ years of demonstrable experience in automation technologies including Selenium, Protractor, UFT, Junit, Gherkin, JMeter etc. and scripting languages including java
• Experience in BDD framework such a BDD cucumber.
• Experience in services/API testing and automation.
• In-depth knowledge of test management software (e.g. ALM, Jira).
• Proficiency in usage of SQL queries for databases or large datasets.
• Expertise in working with XML, XSLT and SOAP, and JSON formats.
• Experience in Agile methodology and DevOps with integrating automated tests in Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team player with good communication skills to work effectively in a global team.

Skills Desired

• Exposure to messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ) and Unix/Linux
• Knowledge of Financial market and Wealth Management
• Ability to develop proof of concepts/prototypes in the new areas of development.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based application architecture and principles.

Educational Qualification
Minimum BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.