The Automation Engineer will work closely with the program testing manager to define functional test automation strategy and processes. Responsible for creating, executing and maintaining a program level automation testing strategy and automation test framework for a given set of automation tools; creating custom controls; mentoring the test automation developers; and demonstrating innovations to increase testing efficiency and maximize the testing investments returns.
Implements and develops the test automation framework for UI and middleware for given sets of system components - web, mainframe, web services, database, documents, xml.
Ensures optimum use of the existing test automation tool set in conjunction with use of open source tools with the objective of providing faster, better and cost-effective solutions to the testing teams.
Reviews the regression scenarios selected for automation, assesses automation feasibility and provides recommendations on maximizing automation of regression suite supported by the technical inputs.
Creates and publishes program level test automation dashboard on a weekly basis; works with points of contact across different programs, projects and work streams to collate data to generate automation metrics.
Reviews project test strategies and test plans to make recommendations on automating functional testing of new requirements and influencing the testing approach for better ROI.
Writes custom code in required programming language to achieve desired integration across different test harness tools, enabling data flow and custom reporting.
Writes custom controls in required programming language to integrate with deployment tools, test environments, and application components, such as firewalls, ACF2, web services, UI, databases, and xml.
Demonstrates expertise in SQL and joins queries to generate complex reports.
Demonstrates expertise in API and web services to be able to consume testing tools APIs exposed by the applications.
Reviews and accepts test scripts created or modified by the team for compliance with coding standards and sanctity of the centralized reusable test script library.
Provides continuous integration (CI) development support to the build master and implements/improves build test processes, environments, and scripts to ensure that the code drops to quality assurance are of the highest quality.
Mentors the automation developers and the program's functional testing teams to build expertise around the automation tool, framework and through leadership.