Senior QA Automation Engineer

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement best quality practices and processes for product development
• Design detailed test cases, test scenarios and step definition using feature files to satisfy user stories utilizing a BDD/ATDD approach
• Write automated tests using Spectron in JavaScript & TypeScript
• Write automated tests using Cypress
• Write automated test scripts for web and API
• Create and maintain test cases using test case management tool
• Identify test strategies, test cases, test scripts that ensure high quality and coverage of functionality, integration and performance of components or system
• Participate in sprint activities, test preparation, creating manual and automated test cases
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Identify, record, document test results thoroughly and track bugs.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Troubleshoot and discover root cause of complex issues
• Collaborate with Developers to continuously improve the testability and robustness of the codebase
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Adhere to standards and practices

Knowledge and Experience Required

• At least 5 years experience as a QA Automation Engineer
• Fundamental critical and conceptual thinking skills
• Strong risk management and problem-solving skills
• Excellent documentation skills
• A results-oriented outlook with the ability to prioritize and deliver key initiatives.
• Experience in identifying complex test cases including edge cases
• Ability to identify productivity and efficiency improvements and quickly adapt to changes
• Ability to partner with other project stakeholders to resolve issues and to mitigate project impacts
• Experience creating SQL query for validating tests and creating test data
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience in API testing using tools like Insomnia or postman
• Working knowledge of Confluence, JIRA, and Bitbucket
• Hands-on experience with automated Java Script based testing framework is a plus

Bonus Points 

• Worked in an early stage start-up
• Worked in the finance industry
• Worked in an Agile environment
• Blockchain
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and build pipelines
• Experience analyzing and testing large ERP or Financial IT systems
• Experience in finance with real time trading systems/market data
• Experience in working in a regulated financial firm
• Experienced in working with multinational global teams