Description
My client, a global technology leader, has an opening for a senior automation test engineer to join an innovative team in Galway city on a 12 month initial contract.
Java/Selenium/Cucumber/Fitness/Continuous integration desirable. Minimum 5 - 8 years' experience.
Job Description:
Member of a Software Engineering team working on new applications for the provision of product services to customers
Leads all activities related to QA including overall Test strategy, test plan creation, test execution, results evaluation etc. and ensures product achieves compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
The role involves technical leadership in automated testing and deployment of Pricing Tools and Applications
Responsibilities:
- Reviews and evaluates project activities for compliance with QA guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality
- Provides overall software QA leadership and perspective to internal team
- Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software QA organization.
- Frequently contributes to the development of new ideas, process improvements and providing direction and guidance to improvement initiatives
- Prepares test framework and test plans in conjunction with the requirements of the Product Owner and the development team
- Writes high quality code to perform automated functional tests on customer requirements
- Participates in scrum planning daily standups and demo reviews
- Develops test framework and test cases and collaborates with Development Operations to create a Continuous Integration environment for test automation.
- Build regression and acceptance and test case maintenance and support
- Creation and maintenance of development and integration test environments
Skills and Experience
- Experience in defining test strategy, test estimations, test plan creation, execution and reporting
- Experience in building Automation test plan and developing automation test scripts
- Automation of functional and acceptance tests as part of an agile team
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Technical skills in analysing performance test results and identifying the performance bottlenecks
- Awareness of Agile methodologies, experience of having worked in Agile projects
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; mastery in English.
- Good relationship management skills
- Leadership ability including coaching
- Technical Writing skills
- Advanced multi-tasking and prioritization skills
- Must be a good team player and show ability and willingness to motivate and support other engineers.
- Ability to work effectively in Global teams
Other Skills
- Cucumber Test tool
- Selenium Testing Framework
- FiTness Framework
- QTP (QuickTest Pro)
- SQL Server Database
- Apache/Tomcat Application Servers
- Maven, SVN, build automation
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 5 - 8 years' experience