What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Automation Tester position at Omm IT Solutions?
PLEASE NOTE:
- It is a 100% Onsite position in Woodlawn, MD.
- Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week
- Selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
KEY REQUIRED SKILLS:
- BDD and TDD approaches to automation testing, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, TestNG or Junit, REST Assured, and Parasoft
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
- Architect, design, code, and implement next-generation technical solutions using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies.
- Provide technical support and guidance for the development and maintenance of automation artifacts including the automation framework, grid, and automation scripts.
- Provide expertise in one or more of the following areas: development of automation tests using core Java, Selenium, Cucumber, and Gherkin, execution of automation test suites and documentation of defects.
- All other duties as assigned or directed.
Requirements
SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
- Master's and 5+ years of experience, Bachelor's and 7+ years of experience or 13+ years in lieu of a degree
- 7+ years of experience developing automation tests using core Java or Java-based test frameworks.
- 5+ years of experience developing automation tests with Cucumber and Gherkin.
- 5+ years of experience with automating functional/regression tests with Selenium.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- In-depth knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches to automation testing.
- Extensive, practical experience in software development using Java (preferred), JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
- Experience developing test scripts to implement Features, Test Scenarios and Step-Definitions in a customized test automation framework.
- Experience developing Selenium automation frameworks using Junit/TestNG and developing Maven targets to execute automation suites.
- Experience creating and executing manual test scripts and documenting test results/defects.
- Experience utilising Parasoft for functional and API testing, and environment virtualization.
- Experience with other automation tools such as Playwright (preferred), Cypress, UiPath
- Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle) and experience with SQL for querying data to verify test results.
- Experience in setting up and maintaining Selenium Grid to execute tests in parallel and enable cross platform testing.
- Experience developing automation test scripts to test REST APIs using REST Assured or any Java-based libraries.
- Experience with Web Services Technologies (e.g., REST, SOAP, XML, JSON) and testing Web Services
- Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and/or Kanban Agile development process and ceremonies (scrums, backlog grooming, retrospectives, demonstrations).
DESIRED SKILLS:
- Experience in configuring and execution of automated regression suites using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline or Selenium Grid.
- Experience with source code versioning and Pull Requests with Git and Stash.
- An in-depth knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA) modern development environment including Git/Stash version control, VersionOne (Agility), Confluence, SonarQube, and Checkmarx.
- Experience with environments utilizing Cloud/Virtualization technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Docker.
- Exposure to AI-assisted test automation development.
- Experience building self-healing automation frameworks.
- Knowledge of synthetic data generation methods with/without using AI.
- Experience configuring and executing automation tests in containers.