Qa Automation Testing Engineer

Professional work experience of 5 to 8 years in QA Automation Testing

Senior QA Engineer shall be responsible understanding of the domain and using that understanding to enhance work output in terms of functionality of software applications. This Role needs to assess and diagnose issues during the requirement gathering process; Determine preliminary solutions to identified issues and gaps; Plan test schedules and strategies in accordance with project delivery dates. Must work towards continuously aligning test activities to prioritized requirements stack/product backlogs and JIT (just in time) model storms. Develop & execute test cases in alignment to test strategy

Competencies:

• Understanding production infrastructure, product flow and design
• Gauging the information required and gathering it for writing more complex test cases
• Independently deriving the test cases from the requirements
• Independently undertaking both functional and non-functional testing
• Using various testing techniques like black box/white box/ positive/negative/ boundary values user experience / creating test data etc. to effectively demonstrate testing skills
• Ensuring correctness and completeness of builds by using CM tools and its features (check in, checkout, merge, build, work area, branch, version and release numbering etc.)
• Understanding the software development lifecycle and having an understanding of the overall application development space
• Adopting agile framework accurately for a given situation by understanding Agile manifesto and ceremonies
• Assessing and diagnosing issues across the various testing environment
• Using right datasets/files/tools for independent testing; Understanding of functional and non-functional testing
• Identify & manage risk while facilitating project planning & closure through application of metrics
• Driving CI/CD processes

Technical Skills:

• Testing principles & methodologies, testing methods (Regression testing, Usability testing, Acceptance Testing, System testing, Performance testing, Load Testing etc.), automation tools/techniques, software testing infrastructure, Continuous Integration / Deployment processes
• OOPS concepts, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Choice of Data structures to be used in design, Problem solving techniques, Functional and Technical design documents (MD050/MD070/HLL etc.), Security framework (Assessing vulnerabilities, Secured Code, SSL/Non-SSL, Vulnerability tests)
• Agile practices, Alternative programming approaches (ADM/Scrum or Xtreme programming, KanBan, Re-factoring), ALM tools (TFS, Stat, Jira, etc.), Continuous Integration/ Deployment processes
• Scoping, Scheduling, Resourcing, Effort estimation techniques, Software Development methodologies (AGILE, SCRUM, XP etc.), Work breakdown structures, Gantt charts and similar planning tools, Project requirements and goals, Communication/Escalation procedures, Microsoft Tools such as Visio and Microsoft Project
• Configuration management (CM) concepts/ procedures, Packaging tools such as (MS Build, Installshield etc.), CM tools (TFS, CVS, VSS, Clear Case, Perforce etc.), Power shell scripting, Incident/Problem Management
• Have good knowledge in framework building from scratch(using Playwright framework)
• Knowledge of OOP principles
• Experience with Selenium C# , Playwright is a must.
• Experience with UI automated testing and frameworks like Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Playwright etc
• Product Architecture and design