QA Tester

QA Tester

Washington, DC

6 Months

No C2C

Top Skills

-Selenium

-Java Spring

-Maven

-Cucumber

The Role of the Senior Automation Engineer is to design, build, and deploy effective test automation technologies to be utilized within the automation solution and framework of a QA and Testing Organization. To fulfill this role the Senior Test Engineer applies a mid to senior level software development skillset to design and build the various tiers of an automation tool including a user interface, data management (SQL or equivalent), and back-end logic, targeting non-technical QA resources as a user base. Additionally, the Senior Automation Engineer mentors and trains Junior Automation Engineering resources to design, build, test and deploy effective test automation solutions utilizing these technologies as a foundation to meet the short and long-term goals of a testing organization.

Key requirements:

• Expertise with Selenium and Cucumber

• Behavior Driven Development Experience

• Advanced Object-Oriented Language development experience

• Experience in Java with Spring

• Experience in JavaScript (JQuery)

• Experience in CSS

• Experience in HTML

• Test Driven Development

• Experienced in QA related data analysis and correlation skills

• Strong Analysis, Problem Solving, Time Management Skills

• Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle as well as various SDLC methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.)

• Experienced in Training and Mentoring

• Strong communication skills both written and oral

The candidate must be willing to demonstrate intermediate to expert developer skills in an object-oriented language of their choosing. Specifically:

• Lifecycle management (ant and maven are accepted or equivalent .NET)

• Compile runnable: JAR or EXE

• Console or interface (e.g. swing)

• Follow programing best practices (organization, naming, structure)

• Object oriented design and development

• Unit tests development - 80%+ coverage/no duplicated code