What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Automation Engineer (SDET) position at Exprad IT?
Role: Lead QA Automation Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
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.