Sr. Automation Engineer

Location: Remote, EST

Requirements: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Maven, and strong personality.

Bonus: GitLab, Appium, python, javascript

Project Overview: SVB Go Autoamtion - supporting automation efforts across all legacy SVB (now FCB).

Formal JD:

The most important skills needed for this role include:

• Automation - excellent knowledge of testing tools for web applications and automation testing frameworks

• Strong QA/testing background with ability to derive robust automated tests from capturing requirements from technical team and users

• Testing ownership and initiative to find, report, and drive bug resolution

• Experience or exposure to an Agile testing environment including Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) - GitLab Pipeline (or Jenkins)

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and team collaboration skills

Job Description:

This experienced software testing professional will be expected to perform a variety of quality assurance tasks to ensure that our software products meet quality standards and end-user requirements. While working as part of a cross-functional project team composed of developers, project managers, product managers, and support personnel, our QA personnel help shape the quality and stability of our software products while making continuous operational improvements to maximize testing coverage and reduce testing cycle time.

As a Test Automation Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for effective and efficient test execution in an Agile environment for web applications. You will be responsible for developing new automation scripts and/or modifying existing automation scripts developed using various testing tools and in-house Automation Frameworks. You will perform as a technical/business consultant with clients, analysts, programmers and team members to solve complex business problems.

Experience Requirement:

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field or equivalent experience

-Minimum of 5+ years of experience developing automated tests

-Minimum of 5+ years of experience with Java (Cucumber JVM)

-Minimum of 3+ years of experience in automation of web applications - Selenium-Webdriver

-Minimum of 2+ years of SQL developer experience and writing complex SQL queries (DB2, SQL Server, Oracle)

-Minimum of 2+ years of API (RESTful) testing experience

Key Responsibilities

-Work with QA Team Members to coordinate testing activities and optimize test cycles

-Own product areas to find, report and drive bugs that are found

-Participate in the planning, design, estimation and development of software (tools, automation, features)

-Creating scripts to compare and validate testing requirements

-Setting up data, tools, databases, and applications

-Using SQL commands to analyze data in relational databases, prepare data for testing purposes, and validate data integrity

-Providing QA and automation leadership on Agile project teams

-Partnering productively in a cross-functional team environment with minimal supervision

-Multi-tasking across projects and tasks where flexibility will be expected

-Comfortable dealing with and taking on ambiguous technical challenges

-Managing time, priorities, and negotiating tradeoff alternatives

-Communicating effectively

-Establish collaborative relationships with other teams to ensure success of project test phases

Preferred Qualifications

-Experience building automated testing solutions using automated web testing tools such as Cucumber JVM, Selenium Webdriver, Sauce Labs

-Experience with defect tracking systems (i.e Jira), version control systems (i.e Git), and test management systems (i.e Xray - Jira)

-Candidate should be a high-performing test automation expert and having the ability to train and mentor others on the implementation of various test automation frameworks as needed.

-Advanced knowledge of test automation tools, frameworks, design approaches, and effective implementation techniques

-Self-starter and quick study that can work independently and collaboratively

-Strong communication & documentation skills - Ability to communicate and document status and complex issues effectively