QA Automation Engineer at DigiOutsource

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Review, analyse and identify automation requirements based on the functional and design specifications and ensure full understanding of deliverables.
• Review system architecture to determine appropriate test points.
• Proactively raise questions and seek resolution of outstanding clarifications required for automation setup.
• Implement automation strategies using a variety of tools to check quality standards and identify possible issues.
• Potential writing of custom automation solutions.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate issues to management.
• Provide your Technical Lead with metrics, analyses, and other relevant reports for automation across development.
• Setup, execution and maintenance of Automated Test Suites for regression and ad-hoc testing of system components potentially affected by system changes.
• System performance monitoring after implementation to prevent re-occurrence of failures and ensures efficiency.
• Provide support to the relevant teams that monitor production environments, by analyzing and addressing automation failures that occur.
• Troubleshoot with Development to reproduce, identify, and resolve issues; be able to clearly communicate defects.
• Hold and facilitate automation strategy sessions.
• Identify and provide/arrange necessary automation training to business or dev/tester groups.
• Taking responsibility and ownership of researching, POC and implementing Automation best practices, relevant methodologies and new automation technologies.
• Strong ability to analyze requirements and convert to detailed test cases (positive, negative, exceptions, etc…).
• Understands software testing methodologies and techniques, such as front-end functional testing, system integration testing, performance, and load testing.
• Ability to write test plans, test cases, and record/track defects.
• Understand latest software development methodologies.
• Integrate test automation industry standards and best practices.
• Review regression test cases.
• Create library of custom automation functions.

Essential Criteria

• 3-5 years relevant experience within a software development environment
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture
• Knowledge of Visual Studio or similar IDE.
• Excellent understanding of C#, SQL, MongoDB, Rabbit, Nunit, Xunit.
• Good understanding and knowledge of Automation Tools such as Selenium and JMeter.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery processes and tools.
• Experience in API testing.

Desirable Criteria

• Specialist software testing skills and knowledge of structured software testing methodologies gained through formal training.
• Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS.
• Exposure to automated front-end testing.
• Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure.
• Experience with YAML / Terraform / Kubernetes / Gitlab CI.

Personal Specifications:

• Accountability And Execution
• Adaptability / Flexibility
• Commitment and Effort
• Control And Efficiency
• Resilience
• Stress Tolerance
• Technical Knowledge
• Planning & Organizing