Senior Full Stack Automation Engineer

Senior Full Stack Automation Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid) Remote is also fine initially

Duration: 12 months contract with possibility to be extended

Interaction with team:
- Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team. Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.

Work environment:
- Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.

Education & Experience Required:
- Degree with 10 years experience
- Master degree with 8 years experience

Technical Skills of Full-Stack Test Automation Engineer
(Required)
4 years Back-end/API and 3 years Front-end/UI testing automation experience with BDD Cucumber and Gherkin
3 years of Back-end/API automation skills: Rest Assured, Java and Spring Boot
3 years of Front-end/UI automation skills: Cypress or Playwright, Typescript and Web (i.e., HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
Good working experience with Postman, Swagger, RESTful APIs and CICD

(Desired)
Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.
End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms
Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data
The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus
Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., Microsoft AzureDevOps, Jenkins, Git)
At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
Experience load and performance testing

Soft Skills
(Required)
Very Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
Pro-active, flexible and creative
Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
- Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
- If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
- Local candidates preferred