The Challenge

• This is a hands-on testing and automation role. In this role, the resource is closely working with the product team to understand the functionality being developed and writes an automation test to make sure it meets the acceptance criteria.
• In this role, the resource runs the automated scripts associated with each product team and tweak the scripts where necessary.
• The role evaluates continuous improvement by looking at ineffective automated tests and works with the team to get them updated to stay current towards rapid delivery patterns
• This role understands customer use cases and usage models in production to begin incorporating the right automated tests in the release pipeline

Your Mission

• Attend daily team standup
• Attend team sprint ceremonies.
• Provide periodic updates
• Evaluate build quality by examining the test results from build acceptance tests in continuously deployed environments, multiple times a day
• Raise defects found during the evaluation and work with the development teams to get them resolved
• Add, maintain and update scripts in existing automation suite.
• Help existing automation engineers/SDETs by taking up some of their work whenever required
• Support other resources within the team, as seen fit, based on skillset
• Help improve the extent of automation in the team by evaluating all opportunities from testing code to continuous deployment
• Help strengthen the test framework and reusable libraries, based on skillset
• Participate in production deployments by executing the automation suite, share findings and inform the team about any issues
• Continuously learn the system by being hands on and testing the product
• Use critical thought to help identify gaps or defects
• Use communication and natural curiosity to provide trusted and highly valuable feedback
• Automate and test the product features being built with great attention to detail, in order to provide a high-quality deliverable that meets users' expectations.
• Test the product for stability and security before it is rolled out to production
• Use the understanding gained to ask appropriate questions and strengthen the design
• Use shift-left mindset to provide early feedback to developers to improve quality of the deliverable
• Provide automation solution for varying requirements in the product team, starting from testing code to deployments
• Provide solutions for enhancing and maintain the test automation framework to support scale and growth of resources and technology

You Are

• Is a quick self-guided, independent learner. Does not depend on the mentor/buddy/manager for repeated sessions. Does enough homework before asking the necessary questions.
• Is productive within a month of joining the company. The team is aware of this individual and begins to include them for more work. Unearths good defects and can ask the right questions
• Effective collaborator. Speaks clearly and succinctly in standups and clearly indicates the status of tasks assigned
• Great team player with high energy who is very efficient, effective and reliable
• The tests conducted by the resource is comprehensive and does not lead to too many escaped defects to production
• Continuously refine tests to adapt to customer personas and usage from production
• Continuously adapt the test framework to it scalable and reliable
• Exhibits analytical and critical thinking skills
• Has a healthy and professional attitude
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical or business field
• Clear understanding of the fundamental principles of computer science and technology
• 1+ years of experience in testing software applications
• 1+ years of experience in any of the defect tracking tools like JIRA and test tracking tools like Qtest , ALM, Qmetry
• 1+ years of experience in Selenium for automating UI of the application
• 1+ years of experience with REST Assured or similar tools for automating APIs
• 1+ years of experience with database testing (SQL/NoSQL)
• Skilled coding in Java with practical knowledge of OOPs and core Java principles
• Ability to troubleshoot failures using browser console, logs and raise defects to the right module
• Ability to organize work, separate noise from true failures
• Familiarity with Agile principles
• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative and solve problems independently
• Passion for high quality work and attention to detail

Extra Impressive

• Has worked in product roles within a company that has adopted Agile development methodologies
• Is very familiar with the technology components used within OneTrust stack, like Azure cloud services, java microservices, ingesting and understanding logs using ELK
• Has worked in a devops mindset and can influence the right levels of automation
• Clearly demonstrates critical thinking while simultaneously solving customer use cases
• Has been involved in customer support and clearly understands influence of data and test patterns
• Clear mindset on Shift-left principles