Senior Engineer Testing

Senior Testing Engineer

Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)

Contract

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Lead planning, estimation, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks and strategies
• Design and develop automated testing including creation, execution, and maintenance of automated scripts using industry best practices and standards
• Execute translation of manual testing scenarios to test automation coverage across multiple products
• Automate testing for use in a DevOps architecture
• Participate either as the sole QE resource on projects, or in an Agile scrum team
• Use of strong problem-solving skills to investigate and document defects and their respective resolutions
• Lead larger test automation efforts independently and act as a subject matter expert to team members on smaller efforts
• Effectively communicate status to stakeholders and proactively locate and address concerns
• Champion Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes with respect to developing testing automation
• Conform to department standards to comply with audit and regulatory policies
• Assist team members through cross-training on applications and systems, perform peer reviews, training and mentoring manual and junior QE members on automation testing
• Participate in the transformation of testing into a continuous and efficient end-to-end quality engineering function
• Aid in the evolution of more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation
• Collaborate with other test engineers across products and projects to solve problems and deploy them, and mature automation testing practices

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM-related field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent experience (6+ years)
• 6+ years as an SDET or a similar role, with a strong focus on automated testing using Java and Selenium.
• Expertise in designing and developing robust test automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, WebDriver, and related tools
• Hands-on experience testing applications deployed within an AWS cloud platform
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, and IAM
• Experience testing event-driven applications using Apache Kafka
• Experience in the following environments: Linux and AIX
• Experience with Collaboration Tools- Confluence, SharePoint
• Knowledge and Experience in Agile and Iterative development methodologies
• Proven ability to define, design, develop and maintain test automation frameworks and test cases for software applications and/or systems
• Ability to write complex SQL queries to validate data accuracy, troubleshoot issues, and verify backend processing
• Demonstrated experience in test planning and execution activities, test strategy, test data definition, data setup, test execution, defect reporting & communication of status/metrics
• Ability to recognize risks and errors in an application and employ automation testing to reduce them
• Understand, analyze, and develop complex automated tests including data sets, positive and negative functional scenarios to ensure product quality
• Understand project documents and project objectives including User Stories or Requirements to create and execute test cases; ability to work with stakeholders to provide input on testability of functional elements
• Investigation of production problems, creation and management of defect reports, creation of project status reports
• Experience working with Release Management teams; experienced in investigation and testing of deployment or production issues
• Ability to work with minimal supervision while remaining on-task and deadline oriented
• Proven skills in data analysis, data/design verification, and problem-solving
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Qualifications Desired:

• Expertise in Test Automation Framework Development using Selenium (Java)
• AWS certification (AWS Certified Developer, Solutions Architect, or Cloud Practitioner) is a plus.
• Experience using qTest, JIRA, Dynatrace (or similar monitoring tool) testing tools
• In-depth knowledge and experience testing Transactional, Message-based and Web-based applications
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with relational databases
• Familiarity with Git and modern version control practices.
• Experience testing all layers of applications including front end, service layer, back-end connections; testing applications deployed to cloud environments (AWS)
• Experience with Financial or Credit Card based processing
• Experience working in a regulated environment
• Experience with other test automation tools and frameworks, such as Playwright, TestNG, JUnit, or Cucumber