SQA Automation Engineer Job Application

About the job

Role and Responsibilities

• Replicate issues in QA environment as well as communicate resolutions and workarounds to the development teams.
• Analyze user stories and acceptance criteria to determine the test strategy on a per sprint basis, including risk analysis and prioritization.
• Reviews all requirements and creates a test strategy for a project.
• Create test plans to thoroughly cover scenarios for new feature work.
• Plan, schedule and perform software tests.
• Communicate results of software testing efforts to the rest of the team through test reports and Jira.
• Validating that the user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
• Clearly reporting the status of assigned tasks and testing efforts to managers and business stakeholders.
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in software Quality Assurance and testing roles emphasizing on backend service and mobile applications and end to end integration testing verification.

Preferred Skills

• Self-starter with the ability to handle multiple priorities and projects
• Experience in writing and executing automated testing scripts is required.
• Experience with Test Management, Defect Tracking tools and code repositories like JIRA, Bit Bucket
• Understanding of Non-Functional testing and End to End Systems Integration testing
• Ability to provide multiple paths of testing utilizing a risked based approach
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus