Automation Engineer - Appium/Selenium

As a QA Automation Engineer, you are expected to think critically and ensure quality throughout the web, mobile and api automation systems.

The ideal candidate will work with developers, product managers, QA team members, and operations team members to ensure deliverables are timely and meet expectations.

This role requires the ability to facilitate and manage automation processes including code quality and making overarching technical decisions, as well as guiding the QA Engineers already working in the automation team.

Responsibilities : - Maintain the existing web and mobile automation test cases.

- Develop automation code across a variety of web and mobile platforms.

- As part of the sprint team, automate test cases and make sure they are delivered within expected timelines.

- Work closely with the rest of the QA team to ensure most valuable automation coverage.

- Oversee Associate QA Engineers to ensure code pushed into the repository is high quality and reviewed.

- Maintain and adjust the automation roadmap to complement the feature roadmap.

- Analyze and adjust automation architecture to make it scalable as more features are added, across several different platforms.

- Work with various engineering teams to integrate QA systems with all available build systems.

- Additional other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Basic Qualifications : - 3 years of experience in advanced Java, Appium, Selenium and API automation.

- Must have 2 years of mobile automation experience using Java and Appium.

- Coaching, training, and mentoring QA engineers and ensuring that quality standards are met across the entire team.

- Experience using Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.

- Ability to write/execute test cases/suites for multi-platform application software.

- Experience with Postman, Charles Proxy, and/or Rest Assured.

- Outstanding communication, organizational and interpersonal skills with both a technical and non-technical audience.

- Work to consistently improve testing efficiency including for regression testing.

Additional Qualifications : - BA/BS in computer science or any related technical field, or equivalent work experience.

- Defect testing experience across multiple platforms.

- Experience developing automation for AppleTV, AndroidTV or Roku.

- Knowledge of video technologies.

- Strong understanding of Agile test tools and : Chennai (ref:hirist.tech)