Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.comShort Description: Automation Tester - Analyst
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Complete Description: One resource with 5 + years of experience in the following:
Overall Responsibilities
• Requires thorough technical, analytical and operational knowledge within the QA area of accountability with specific responsibilities for design, development and implementation of test strategies.
• Requires extensive technical experience: ability to read architectural diagrams, design review and system documentation, review end-to-end workflows (technical/business), participate in code reviews and utilize the information to create quality solutions.
• Responsible for performing and leading the integration, system, and regression testing of software for both manual and automated test execution.
• Responsible for sprint deliverables and implementing Test Driven Development each sprint to achieve the sprint testing goals.
Specific Responsibilities
• Interact with the product delivery team; participate in product requirement/design reviews to provide input on completeness of functional requirements, product designs, and schedules
• Identify interdependencies, ambiguities or omissions, and make suggestions to improve requirements and ensure usability/testability
• Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, with focus to mitigate risks
• Review test schedules in accordance with project scope and delivery expectations
• Participate in designing test strategies, scenarios, scripts, and/or procedures to determine product quality or release readiness
• Develop testing scenarios/cases to address areas of database, web interface, web services, software code and programs written, regression testing, usability and develop automated scripts
• Perform Test Execution; collaborate with other testers during test execution
• Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing code pieces to determine breakdown source; coordinate activities with overall development team, monitoring and reporting on problem resolution
• Adhere to defect tracking process; document software defects, monitor the progress in a timely manner, escalate aging and priority defects
• Document test procedures to ensure repeatability and compliance with standards
• Collect and report test results through various metrics reporting tools and communicating to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Manage Test Driven Development coordinating work with development team for timely delivery for testing for each sprint.
• Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on risks and the test results.
• Provides the department with in-depth system knowledge, product and service related expertise and excellent analytical skills
• Identify areas for Test Automation and provide design prototypes for the automation suite based on tool specified above.
• Ability to extend prototypes and implement the automation suite across all test environments
• Ability to strategize and implement test automation on the database layer of the application.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 5 years experience performing Quality Assurance functions with demonstrated experience in Software Development Lifecycle.
• Ability to share and communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to staff, business customers, managers, and technical resources in clear concise language that is appropriate to the target audience
• Experience working in ambiguous situations, dealing with IT issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure project deliverables on time and within budget.
• Experience with a variety of test tools and software testing practices, including developing, implementing, maintaining and managing manual/automated testing systems and environments
• Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing
• Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to handle multiple large projects simultaneously for executing test cases and reporting results.
• Ability to work independently and/or as part of a team.
• Work experience using automated testing tools and using them to develop regression suites.
• Experience in SQL, ORACLE (preferred),.NET, XML, HTML, MS Access, Windows, UNIX shell scripting.
NOTE: This position requires extensive coding abilities to develop automation suites for various applications under test. The candidate would have a mix of 25% of responsibilities specified above in areas of QA and testing and the rest 75% being building and deploying automation suites.
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or IT or Engineering with relevant IT/Quality Assurance or Quality Control experience | Required | 5 | Years |
Testing including: functional end-to-end testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, and regression | Required | 4 | Years |
Various PM methodologies, including Agile methodologies and supporting techniques (e.g. Test Driven Development and continuous integration processes | Required | 4 | Years |
Automation tools – (Front End) Selenium-webdriver with Java or Selenium-webdriver/Watir-webdriver/Ruby , Microsoft CODEDUI or comparable tools | Required | 3 | Years |
Backend (BE) DB layer testing and developing automation suites for performing ETL testing, BE of DB design, procedures, prgs etc. (SSIS or comparable | Required | 3 | Years |
Designing and implementing automation suites from scratch using tools above to augment into the testing cycles | Required | 3 | Years |
Webservices testing – (Service layer - Restfull and SOAP) and expertise in automating them | Required | 2 | Years |
Working on an Agile team | Required | 3 | Years |
