What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Test Automation Engineer position at GigaTech Services?
Sr Test Automation Engineer -
Irving, TX (onsite from day-1) - LOCALS ONLY
Interview process : F2F interview
About The Job
You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team of product managers, marketers, designers, and engineers who research and innovate on latest technology to create awesome digital products that millions of people will experience every day.
You will be responsible for building APIs and database operations for back-end and front-end systems that facilitates development of new features, resulting in an increased revenue to the company. Engineers have solid technical background but enjoy learning new languages, technologies, and frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
Irving, TX (onsite from day-1) - LOCALS ONLY
Interview process : F2F interview
About The Job
You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team of product managers, marketers, designers, and engineers who research and innovate on latest technology to create awesome digital products that millions of people will experience every day.
You will be responsible for building APIs and database operations for back-end and front-end systems that facilitates development of new features, resulting in an increased revenue to the company. Engineers have solid technical background but enjoy learning new languages, technologies, and frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and analyze requirements, specifications, and technical design documents, providing timely feedback.
- Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites to minimize regressive behavior.
- Identify and report issues found, then verify that issues are resolved.
- Test features and functions at user interfaces (UI) for validation against backend systems and/or databases to identify anomalies.
- Identify test data in multiple databases by writing complex queries (MSSQL, PLSQL, DB2, NOSQL) to retrieve data and verify results.
- Perform system testing, regression testing, negative testing, component level testing, boundary testing, and smoke testing.
- Understands Test Automation Architecture (one with experience building automation frameworks from ground up is highly preferred).
- Experience writing test cases, testing, and automating the backend APIs (RESTful APIs and Postman).
- Working knowledge of automation frameworks and test automation tools like Appium, Selenium Web driver, Xcode, Android Studio etc., as well as hands-on experience using them.
- A solid understanding of one or more programming languages (such as JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.)
- Hands-on experience writing automation scripts for mobile-iOS and Android using Appium.
- Having experience with Android Devise testing and being proficient with ADB commands.
- Using JMeter and Selenium Web Driver 3.0 using C#/Java to automate and load test applications.
- Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud computing and APIs.
- Experience with relational databases and no SQL for performing backend testing.
- Experience in AWS (Lambda, Step functions and cloud watch).
- Comprehensive understanding of testing tools, ability to integrate test automation into existing CI/CD pipelines with GIT/branches/merges, build systems, and a version control system.
- Having knowledge of proxy debugging tools such as Charles or developer tools, etc.
- Wears Multiple hats and when needed is willing to do Manual testing as well Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
- Experience and proficiency in using JIRA and other Atlassian products.
- Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Critical thinker, problem-solving skills and Team player.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to efficiently communicate with Test lead, Developers and Product Owners.
- Strong sense of ownership, bias for action and an It Can Be Done attitude.
- 5 years API Automation experience
- 5 years Mobile and Web Automation (Appium) experience
- 5 years JavaScript and Object-oriented Programming experience
- Bachelor’s/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
- Passion to understand, learn, and dissect new technologies quickly on your own.
- Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Any relevant Technical/ Cloud Certifications would be an added advantage
