QA Automation Engineer

QA Automation Engineer is a professional who applies engineering principles to the design and development of software tests. Their primary goal is to automate the testing process to identify bugs and issues before the software reaches end-users, ensuring the product’s quality and reliability. They will need to complete all other tasks that are deemed appropriate for this role and assigned by the manager/supervisor.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Operational Collaboration:

• Ability to work on multiple products or tasks simultaneously as per priority.
• Coordinate testing with different offices and teams.

Skillsets and QA Tasks:

• Leadership and task/project ownership.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Interpersonal skills - proactive communication.
• Time management and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive self-starter attitude with desire to own projects.
• Resourceful with the drive to learn and improve skills.
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Team player.
• Written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Complete all other tasks that are deemed appropriate for your role and assigned by your manager/supervisor.
• Knowledge of functional testing.
• Ability to work in an Agile lifecycle.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain good working relationships
• Ability to define problems, collect data, analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to expand/refactor existing automation frameworks and excellent debugging skills.
• A comprehensive familiarity and proven experience in OOP.
• Well-grounded skills related to networking, CMS and database technologies.
• Review design specifications to understand the software product's scope, requirements, and functionality.
• Create, modify, and execute automated test cases.
• Create, modify and maintain test cases required for all aspects of testing.
• Conducts testing to ensure that a product is performing according to user requirements and within established guidelines.
• Monitor, manage and report bugs using bug tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Monitor logs and understand the issues.
• Provide appropriate status reports on a daily basis.
• Research, develop and test third party applications and solutions on Linux and Windows.
• Create virtual environments with various operating systems, databases, content management systems and troubleshoot when required.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of experience in Software Testing.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• Good experience in design, development and debugging of test automation scripts using Selenium (WebDriver), Maven, Rest Assured, Junit, TestNG.
• Experience testing REST APIs using postman.
• Strong analysis and autonomous problem discovery and solving skills.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and TestRail.
• Knowledge of databases and content management systems.