Staff Automation Engineer

gevernova

Bengaluru 10 Years Exp Posted 237d ago

Roles and Responsibilities

Own large sized tasks and delivers QE artifacts. Manages deliverables and mentors junior team members.
Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining coding standards and processes to ensure quality code is produced.
Reuse existing code appropriately wherever possible; drives same behaviors across team while coaching other developers to improve their code quality.
Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams at the COE.
Determine testing best practices and principals and promotes them across the organization.
Work with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
Provide subject matter expertise in the quality engineering, manages test plans and testing methodology for software projects.
Use test automation techniques (data driven, pairwise, mocking, test hooks) that fit the problem space. Understands designing and coding for testability to produce quality code with the lowest cost.

Qualifications & Essential Skills:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 10 years of experience
Strong Programming Skills on Languages: Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript (optional).
Working knowledge of Automation Frameworks: Pytest, Unittest, Behave (BDD), Selenium WebDriver (with languages like Python, Java, or C#).
Experience with Test Automation Tools: Squish (for GUI automation), TestComplete (for GUI automation), Robot Framework (for automation testing).
Understanding of Data-Driven Testing: CSV, Excel, or JSON data files and frameworks like Pytest-BDD or Behave.
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and Version control - Git
Experience with Defect tracking tools like Jira, Clear Quest, Rally and Test management tools like ALM.
Has extensive experience in test automation
Demonstrates experience and ability to write code for the purposes of testing solution code (e.g., white-box testing).
Has experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
Has experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure
Expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.

Desired Skills

Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Able to work well with global teams
Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members.