Senior Automation Tester

• Define test strategy to improve the product quality by introducing best practices like early testing, continuous testing, automated testing etc. so that the project timelines can be met without compromising on quality
• Perform test planning, team coordination, monitoring and control of the testing activities
• Work in close liaison with the project manager and the customer for communications related to the testing activities
• Work with the testing team to ensure the stories are tested as soon as the development is complete so that only minimal defects get leaked to the test environment
• Monitor the project from process and quality standpoint and alert the project manager about the deviations/risks at the earliest
• Participate in customer calls, the requirement gathering exercises, sprint planning / grooming sessions, sprint review etc. as needed
• Guide and mentor the testing team in implementing best practices in different areas of testing including System testing, Regression testing (including automation), Performance Testing, Security Testing etc
• Collaborate with development team to triage issues
• Identify automation potential in application and keep the automation suite updated to ensure optimum test coverage is obtained through automation
• Build automation regression suite and ensure the suite is diligently maintained and kept updated
• Build/maintain automation frameworks
• Close collaboration with internal and external teams to foster a single team culture
• Be an excellent team player to ensure project commitments are met collaboratively

• Proficiency in testing concepts and experience in functional testing manually as well building automation test suite
• Proficiency in any of the programming languages like java/python/c# etc.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Proficient with version control systems, such as Gitlab and GitHub
• Excellent Exposure in build tools including Maven, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild etc
• Excellent knowledge of design patterns and understanding the effective utilization of them in various programming languages
• Proficiency in implementing BDD framework in test automation using tools like Cucumber
• Good understanding of test-driven development methodology and significance of automation in TDD
• Experience in developing hybrid test automation framework from scratch including integration of DB & Selenium
• Good understanding on API automation using tools like rest assured/Rest sharp
• Proficiency in AWS services like Lambda, Step functions, streaming services, AWS microservices etc
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills to quickly identify and resolve issues
• Excellent exposure in using automation framework lime TestNG/Nunit
• Excellent exposure in testing RESTful and SOAP APIs. Proficiency in API testing tools including Experience with tools such as Postman, SoapUI and Swagger
• Exposure in various data formats like Json & xml used for request and response payloads
• Good exposure in Database/SQL to write sql queries to validate data to ensure data consistency and integrity
• To adhere to the Information Security Management policies and procedures

Knowledge on performance test automation using JMeter or load runner would be a plus