What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Automation Engineer position at Akkodis?
Akkodis is seeking an Quality Assurance Automation Engineer for a Contract position with a client located in Boston, MA.
Rate Range: $50-$55/hr on W2 without benefits, The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors
Title: Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Job Types: 6 Months Contract
Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid 2 days onsite)
DETAILED LIST OF JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Designing the overall technology roadmap of automation framework solutions in collaboration with development and SQA teams.
- Contribute to which testing approaches would best solve the need to deliver a quality framework.
- Collaborate with other teams, such as infrastructure and security, to advocate for testing, best practices, strategy, and techniques to integrate quality into the entire development life cycle.
- Develop test strategies according to a risk-based test methodology.
- Identify areas of optimization and improvement in the testing process.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience developing test automation frameworks using Selenium, JUnit/TestNG, Playwright, and REST Assured.
- Expertise in any programming language, preferably JAVA, and understanding object-oriented design techniques.
- Proficient in using XPath and CSS Selectors. Able to derive Customized Xpaths.
- Experience with Jenkins, Maven, SVN, Git, and XL Deploy.
- Experience using Version controller tools like SVN / GIT
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- AWS work experience is a plus.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent work experience.
- 5-10 years of experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks for web-based and API applications.
- 5 years of experience designing and maintaining application automation test frameworks.
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of QA methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
- Prior experience with testing types: black-box, white-box, functional, smoke, and regression.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to deliver on time while working in a semi-autonomous environment and with distributed teams.
- Test management, build, and CI/CD tools such as ALM, Maven, Jenkins, and XL Deploy are preferred.
- Prior Government or healthcare experience desired
Benefits:
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.
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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
· The California Fair Chance Act
· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Salary : $50 - $55
