Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 to 12 Months

Must have skills for Automation Test Engineers (QA):

• We are looking for someone with extensive scripting experience using cucumber and ruby for test automation.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins) - 4+ Years
• Experience with REST APIs and tools like Postman, SoapUI - 5+ Years

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, code, test, debug, maintain, and document software automation;
• Follow established software automation development standards and procedures;
• Support business functions through the development and maintenance of automation framework for applications thereby maintaining quality standards;
• Participate in peer code and design reviews;
• Analyze business and system requirements to design automation plans, develop automation scripts, setting up test Environments, and Analyzing test Results.
• Contribute software automation expertise to multiple projects and ensure that specifications are met;
• Collaborate with development teams and other stakeholders to understand the applications to provide good automation coverage;
• Represent the IT department in terms of software automation development expertise in coordination with other departments;

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Software automation in an agile environment
• 6+ Years Proficient in at least 2 of Java 7+, .NET, Bash, Ruby, or Perl
• 5+ Years Behavior-driven development using Cucumber
• 4+ Years Development frameworks (Spring, Junit, Selenium)
• 5+ Years RDBMS experience (E.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, etc)
• 4+ Years Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins)
• 4+ Years Experience with REST APIs and tools like Postman, SoapUI
• 5+ Years Technical Documentation

Desired Experience:

• Prior experience with Non-relational DBS
• Knowledge of application security concepts
• Experience with agile SDLC
• Experience working with JMeter to automate UI load testing
• Experience with scripting languages
• Experience in Designing/implementing end to end automation frameworks

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree and/or relevant technical training with certification