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Senior Automation Tester

Role : Senior Automation Tester

Skills – Mandatory - API Automation Testing, Automation framework development

Skills - Primary - Azure cloud infrastructure Support

Total Experience : 6 to 8 years

Work Location : Cochin/TVM

Job Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java/C#/Python programming with excellent proficiency in API automation. Sound understanding on test automation framework development, with a focus on utilizing AWS services for building scalable and efficient test solutions to ensure quality of our software deliverables.

Job Description / Duties and Responsibilities

• Define test strategy to improve the product quality by introducing best practices like early testing,
• Continuous testing, automated testing etc. so that the project timelines can be met without compromising on quality.
• Perform test planning, team coordination, monitoring and control of the testing activities.
• Work in close liaison with the project manager and the customer for communications related to the testing activities.
• Work with the testing team to ensure the stories are tested as soon as the development is complete so that only minimal defects get leaked to the test environment.
• Monitor the project from process and quality standpoint and alert the project manager about the deviations/risks at the earliest.
• Participate in customer calls, the requirement gathering exercises, sprint planning / grooming sessions, sprint review etc. as needed.
• Guide and mentor the testing team in implementing best practices in different areas of testing including System testing, Regression testing (including automation), Performance Testing, Security Testing etc.
• Collaborate with development team to triage issues.
• Identify automation potential in application and keep the automation suite updated to ensure optimum test coverage is obtained through automation.
• Build automation regression suite and ensure the suite is diligently maintained and kept updated.
• Build/maintain automation frameworks.
• Close collaboration with internal and external teams to foster a single team culture.
• Be an excellent team player to ensure project commitments are met collaboratively.

Job Specification / Skills and Competencies

• Proficiency in testing concepts and experience in functional testing manually as well building automation test suite.
• Proficiency in any of the programming languages like java/python/c# etc.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Proficient with version control systems, such as Gitlab and GitHub.
• Excellent Exposure in build tools including Maven, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild etc
• Excellent knowledge of design patterns and understanding the effective utilization of them in various programming languages.
• Proficiency in implementing BDD framework in test automation using tools like Cucumber.
• Good understanding of test-driven development methodology and significance of automation in TDD.
• Experience in developing hybrid test automation framework from scratch including integration of DB & Selenium.
• Good understanding on API automation using tools like rest assured/Rest sharp.
• Proficiency in AWS services like Lambda, Step functions, streaming services, AWS microservices etc.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills to quickly identify and resolve issues.
• Excellent exposure in using automation framework lime TestNG/Nunit.
• Knowledge on performance test automation using JMeter or load runner would be a plus.
• Excellent exposure in testing RESTful and SOAP APIs. Proficiency in API testing tools including Experience with tools such as Postman, SoapUI and Swagger.
•Exposure in various data formats like Json & xml used for request and response payloads.
• Good exposure in Database/SQL to write sql queries to validate data to ensure data consistency and integrity.
• To adhere to the Information Security Management policies and procedures.