Description
This freelance job is remote, however we will only consider candidates based in North America, Europe, or South America.Freelancers ONLY:
We will only consider independent, freelance practitioners
English Skills:
Your oral and written English skills must be exceptional
Duration:
Full-time and duration is 3-12 Months with 3 months being the minimum.
Role:
As an Automation Test Engineer you will be on a small Agile product development team responsible for the entire test automation strategy, process, and tools.
Critical Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks
- Automate testing for regression, functional, white box, and UAT
- Write additional test scripts to provide appropriate coverage
- Leverage API’s and service virtualization as you work toward continuous testing
- Participate in daily Scrums, agile planning and sprints -providing both technical and business oriented feedback
- Work proactively with product leadership providing solutions on how to support new products and team initiatives, both large and small.
- Create test strategies and test cases as appropriate
- Assure the overall quality of our products through building application subject matter expertise
- Provide clear and concise bug reports and help developers narrow down issues
Required Experience and Skills:
- 6+ Years in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering or Software Development
- 2+ Years of Automation Experience
- Experience with Agile/Lean Methodologies
- Proficiency with ANY of the following languages: Java, C#, python, or Ruby
- Proven experience and mastery working with automation testing frameworks and tools similar to Selenium, Cucumber, Appium and test harnesses such as Selenium Grid or Sauce Labs.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and best practices including build and source control automation tools Jenkins and Git.
- Experience with service virtualization or test data management
- Experience in creating automation test plans & test strategies and leading QA initiatives and teams across waterfall and agile efforts
- Experience managing tasks and defects using products similar to Jira, Rally, or Pivotal Tracker
- Deep knowledge of QA best practices across SDLC
- Basic knowledge of testing RESTful APIs
- Exposure within a DevOps culture and a highly collaborative approach
- Strong writing and communication skills; Must be able to clearly describe and discuss problems.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as a part of both large and small teams in a fast paced, team oriented environment.
- Experience with quality assurance metrics and reporting