Senior QA Automation Engineer (Cucumber/BDD) at DigiCert, Inc.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer (Cucumber/BDD) at DigiCert, you will be a key contributor to our quality assurance team, ensuring the reliability, stability, and performance of our software products. You will play a crucial role in automating testing processes, improving test coverage, and maintaining high-quality software releases.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers and architects to understand project requirements and technical specifications.
• Plan and implement various types of testing, including manual, regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, and performance tests.
• Develop and maintain a test automation framework to reduce testing time through automation.
• Work closely with development teams to design testing strategies and integrate testing into the development process.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and debug product defects and provide timely solutions to customer issues.
• Promote quality and testing best practices among development teams, reviewing test plans for automation test coverage.
• Stay update-to-date on emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve software development processes and tools.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help drive technical innovation within the team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Cucumber or any BDD framework would be strongly favoured for this position.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of test automation experience, specifically in testing web applications.
• Proficiency in Java.
• Strong understanding of test design, planning, execution, defect reporting and tracking.
• Experience in both automated and manual web application and web service API testing.
• Proficiency in GitHub Actions and CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins.
• Advanced knowledge of test automation frameworks like Cucumber and Selenium.
• Knowledge of both relational (MySQL, MariaDB) and NoSQL/non-relational (Cassandra) databases
• Proficiency in containerization with Docker and expertise in container orchestration utilizing Kubernetes
• Experience with software development methodologies, such as Agile
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and address complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Previous experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is a plus.