What are the responsibilities and job description for the Python Test Automation Engineer position at TPA technologies?
This position is for a Python Test Automation Engineer for a hybrid opportunity in Boston, MA
12-month contract and 3x per week onsite is mandatory
Our Capital Management client is seeking a Test Automation Engineer (TAE) to work with a Squad to practice the craft of testing in both a manual and automated fashion. This role will contribute to a strategic initiative of building standardized test automation frameworks for each type of application (ETL, API, backend, frontend, etc.) This role will closely partner with the Test Automation Working Group and will be responsible for creating and maintaining code for the squad. The test automation code created will be based off best practices established and shared by other squads for consistency of patterns, styles and quality of developed code.
The person selected will be the sole Test Automation Engineer and should have experience building Python test framework from scratch as well as architectural knowledge
Responsibilities:
• Participate in various test practices including but not limited to test incident and defect management, manual testing and test automation
• Create and maintain manual and automated tests within the squad that align with organization level and domain level test specifications
• Write code and review others’ code, contributing to automated test frameworks, and adding tests to those frameworks for your squad’s applications
• Contribute to internal guidelines, standards and policies related to the development and test process
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to understand, design and implement tests on test objects within the scope of the squad
• Must have experience utilizing various test design techniques that contribute to testing data quality
• Experience working on web-based applications and/or ETL technologies
• Proficiency in Python and/or Java (familiarity with pytest is preferred)
• Use of version control to track changes to software test code
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL Basic knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
• Develop scripts to automate test execution
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, such as Scrum
• Windows proficiency