What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Automation Engineer position at ACL Digital?
Job Title : Senior Automation Engineer, Embedded Engineering Services (EES)
Experience Range : 6 to 10 years
Job Location : Fort Smith, Arkansas/ Indianapolis, Indiana
Duration: 12 Months
Job Function, Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts, web, mobile, and API testing
- Ensure the automation frameworks are scalable, maintainable, and reusable
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in automation testing and QA methodologies
- Prepare test documentation - Test Plans & Test Cases
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, or similar
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Participate in design and code reviews to provide a QA perspective
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and work with development teams to resolve issues.
- Generate test reports and metrics to track the quality and coverage of the automation suite
Technical Skills:
MUST
- In-depth understanding of Test Methodologies, SDLC (Waterfall, Agile), STLC, Bug Life Cycle
- Hands-on experience in different techniques of Black Box Testing
- Hands-on experience in using various Test Management Tools and Bug Tracking Tools (e.g., TestRail, HP ALM) in test report generation
- Experience in Embedded firmware, hardware testing, and mobile applications
- Test planning, estimation, and scheduling
- Experience & knowledge about Python Automation Framework & hands-on experience of Python Language
- Hands-on in automation testing, with a proven track record of designing and implementing test automation frameworks
- Strong proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or similar
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks like Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, etc.
- Certification in automation testing (e.g. ISTQB Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineer)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Expertise in Python-based development
- Understanding of data structures like lists, dictionaries, tuples, and set
- Various programming techniques like list comprehension, list slicing, shallow & deep copy, eval/exec
- regex & lambda, modules & packages
- automation of remote data processing using modules like pexpect or any such tool
- Parsing input files like Excel, XML, HTML, CSV, etc (any one or more)
- OOP programming is a bonus
- Hands-on experience & understanding of one or more Automation frameworks like Robot, GTest, py.test, etc.
- Hands-on experience in custom test framework development is a plus
- Understanding of various test metrics and reports
- Working experience on Linux
- Cloud application, Cloud Services & APIs, Inter-cloud and could interoperability testing
- Experience with IoT, Thread, Azure, Nest, Apple Home Kit, etc.
- Continuously improve the test automation processes and frameworks
NICE to have:
- Knowledge of the following tools: Jmeter, SoupUI / Postman, Appium, QTP, Selenium
- Debugging tools: Oscilloscope, Logic analyzer, GDB, PDB, Wireshark, Ixia, Spirent, Vectorcast, GTest, Monkey runner
- Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner.
- Knowledge of BDD/TDD practices and tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow.
- Understanding of cloud-based testing environments and tools.
- Networking protocol, Devices, and application / L2-L3 testing with hands-on experience on tools like Ixia, Spirent, Wireshark, WireEdit
Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with a commitment to quality and precision
Educational Criteria:
- BE/ME/B.Tech/M.Tech – Electronics / Electronics & Communications / IT
