What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Test Automation Engineer position at Surge IT?
Position Summary:
Seeking a senior test automation engineer to join a team of experienced professionals in the development and testing of advanced software applications.
Position Description: The candidate must be self-driven, with the ability to work independently not only test engineers and DevOps teams but with business analysts and developers to review software design and requirements documentation to understand the application functionality. The position requires candidate to lead a team of test automation engineers, lead the test automation strategy, manage the automation framework, perform/oversee level of effort estimates, test plans, test case scripting, peer reviews, and test summary reports to ensure a successfully tested release. In addition to manual/ functional testing, the candidate will also need to create automated test and performance test scripts using Selenium or Rational tools, Performance and Functional Tester. The individual will test key functionality, setup and verify data, and report test results to the manager. Individual will be responsible for interacting with clients on a daily basis during testing phases to ensure that release testing defects are communicated to the client and/or support UAT.
Required Skills:
Minimum 5-7 years of professional IT experience. Including:
• Functional: more than 5 years of solid experience with manual functional, regression, usability, integration, remote access, and accessibility testing
•Automation and/or Performance:
- more than 4-5 years of experience with developing scripts from scratch with programming code. For example, Java, java script, python, etc.
- experience developing an automation framework from scratch
• Web services testing: 3 years of experience developing scripts using web services tool
• Database: Serves as SME in SQL, DB, back-end testing
• Develop LOE for own work and others
• Author test plans and reports
• Experience testing in an Agile development environment using tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr Scale to develop/execute functional and regression test scripts, Requirements Traceability, and manage defects
• Experience with Section 508 testing using tools such as JAWS, SortSite, Dragon, WAVE, or Lighthouse
• Leadership experience: leads, delegates, and mentors’ others
Preferred Skills:
• Experience working with a client during User Acceptance Test sessions
• Experience developing level of effort estimates, test plans, test case scripting and test summary reports
• Experience with developing testing schedules
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
- Possession of excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills