Lead QA automation efforts: design test strategies and frameworks, develop automated tests (UI/API), mentor engineers, review specs and PRs, evaluate tools, and support CI/CD and performance testing.
Title – Sr. QA Automation Engineer (Cypress)
Position – Contract (6 +Months)
Location – 100 % Remote
Rate - $Open (Best Possible)
Job Description:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field or comparable industry experience. 5+ years of software test automation experience with a focus on building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
- Experience with software automation testing methodologies including regression, functional, unit, integration, coverage, performance and load preferred.
- Experience testing applications that integrate with other systems through RESTful API's preferred.
- Experience designing test scenarios, breaking down software features and developing automated test strategies required.
- Strong understanding of continuous integration and deployment preferred.
- Experience with test management tools such as qTest, ALM, TFS or similar tools preferred.
- Experience in Agile software development methodology and using tools such as Rally, Jira, TFS, or ServiceNow required.
- Strong expertise in JavaScript, C#, Java, TypeScript, or other applicable languages as needed required.
- Advanced understanding of open source web frameworks such as Angular, Bootstrap, Node.js, and Express required.
- Advanced understanding of web application testing tools such as Selenium, Jasmine, Protractor, Cucumber, Appium, or Cypress required.
- Experience with API testing frameworks such as Karate, Gatling, JMeter, or Postman preferred.
- Experience with load and performance testing preferred.
- Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services such as Amazon AWS, Azure, Heroku, Perfecto Mobile, and SauceLabs preferred.
- Experience in reviewing and providing feedback to team members during pull requests preferred.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented principles and Service Oriented Architecture required.
- Solid understanding of source control tools such as Git or Subversion required.
- Experience with test-driven development and behavior-driven development preferred.
- Advanced level experience with SQL preferred.
- Coaches and mentors Software Test Engineers in execution of automated testing efforts.
- Leads effort to review product specifications and work with others to develop appropriate test strategies, detailed test plans, and test architectures.
- Leads formal reviews of test plans, designs, and requirements with cross-functional teams.
Participates in the evaluation of new tools and technologies to continue enhancing the automation framework.
Note: If interested please send your updated resume and include your rate requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.
We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!
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