Automation Test Lead

Job: IT Software Engineer 5 (Automation)

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

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

• Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications.
• Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
• Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.
• Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
• Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.

Typical task breakdown:

• Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
• Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.
• Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
• Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.

Education & Experience Required:

• Degree with 10 years experience
• Master degree with 8 years experience

Technical Skills

(Required)

• 5 years or more of software testing experience (manual or automation) or at least 3 years of experience with master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 3 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience
• 3 years or more of prior either functional or object- oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like C , Java or Python (preferably Java)
• Strong development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java/Junit, Python, Cucumber, JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks

(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
• Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs)
• The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
• Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
• Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired
• Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus
• Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Jenkins, Git)
• At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
• Understanding of a micro service Architecture
• Experience load and performance testing

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Strong documentation 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.