Test Automation Engineer at Horizontal Talent in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job Description:

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Project Description:

In this role, the candidate will be responsible for both automated and manual testing, of both purely back-end web services (direct JSON-based interaction) and business facing user interfaces. The candidate should have a broad range of experience in testing. The candidate should have experience designing and executing test plans with a high degree of autonomy. This is an agile team which relies on its team members to actively communicate, plan and react to situations as needed to ensure applications are stable and reliable and ready for 100% up time when deployed. Candidates would be expected to own the testing of orders through multiple channels and throughout the entire order lifecycle.

Position Summary/Job Description:

We are looking for highly skilled Test Automation engineer to help us build and maintain our automation framework for an external platform. Test Automation engineer in this role will support planning, design, development and execution of test processes, test plans and test scripts for automated and manual test suites in an Agile environment. Primary responsibilities include:
• Drive the current API test automation frameworks and current QA processes and develop and execute manual/automated test scripts using Cucumber and Java/Groovy
• Triage Automation test failures from Jenkins console and identifying defects from the same.
• Maintain and augment regression suites and execute regression tests as required.
• Work with other QA analysts and developers to ensure that all aspects of the applications have proper testing coverage and meet goals for overall system reliability, performance and quality.
• Establish and maintain bidirectional requirements traceability to test cases. Utilizes proficiency and strong hands-on experience in developing both manual and automated test scripts.
• Build Jenkins pipeline jobs and schedule cron jobs to have automated tests run through it.
• Deliver effective and efficient testing solutions by meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on-time.
• Collaborate and interact with other application teams for integration testing efforts, support other teams with their test data requirements.
• Develop and provide testing metrics and reports to effectively communicate test status in both program level and application level.
• Provide guidance and support to other team members in automation techniques.

Skills Overview:

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
• At least 7+ years of relevant application software testing experience with various automation tools and technologies.
• 5+ years of experience in API test automation using Java and/ or other JVM languages etc
• 5+ years of experience with GitHub, Bitbucket or any SCCM tool
• 5+ years Gradle and/or Maven or equivalent build/dependency management tooling
• 5+ years of testing proficiency with RESTful APIs using postman.
• 3+ years of experience with JIRA /Confluence
• 3+ years of experience working in a CI/CD Integration environment.
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code with Intellij or other IDEs.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Testing
• Experience integrating automation framework with mock services.
• Experience with Groovy, Spock framework, cucumber.
• Experience triaging and monitoring logs with SPLUNK.
• Experience in retail domain specifically ecommerce is beneficial.
• Experience with different modes of retail fulfillment such as shipping (aka parcel delivery), arranged delivery and /or in-store pickup (aka ISPU aka BOPIS) would be ideal.