Lead Automation Test Engineer

Description:

As the company is expanding with its services and clients, we are in need of a strong Lead Automation Test Engineer to join us as consultant. The ideal candidate would have the below experience, skills and background.

Duties & Responsibilities

• You will be automating the QA of everything from highly available back end processes to REST APIs and front end user interfaces.
• Undertake the testing of software, identify source of problem and propose solutions
• Make recommendations concerning software / system quality
• Develop, implement and document test plans for IT software

Knowledge, Skills & Professional Experience needed

• A strong and commercial background in test automation
• Strong Agile (Scrum/Kanban) background
• Minimum 4 years of experience as a professional software developer or test automation engineer
• Great coding skills in Java or any JVM based languages like Groovy, Kotlin etc.
• Experience using coding design patterns
• Automated testing in distributed / microservice architectures
• Experience of testing Web APIs using SoapUI / Postman
• Commercial experience on automation tools like Selenium WebDriver
• Strong communication skills
• Flexibility on travel/work locations
• Experience in CI / CD / Continuous Integration using tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitLab, Bamboo, TeamCity, Maven etc
• Essential – BDD experience using Cucumber/JBehave
• Essential – Performance and load testing of applications using JMeter
• Desirable – Knowledge of DevOps environments
• Desirable – Good SQL skills