Senior Automation Tester C

Description

Role:

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated individual with a passion for testing and quality assurance:

• Focus on requirements gathering, test planning, test execution, automated and manual testing and investigative analysis of defects to verify code changes during the development cycles
• Mentor peers in providing automation test strategies and acting as an integral part of automation proposals
• Identify gaps in test coverage and perform other testing as necessary including performance, security, accessibility, and user acceptance
• Write clear, concise, descriptive bug reports and verify bug fixes
• Work and communicate effectively in an agile team environment
• Develop and maintain a suite of complex automated tests supporting code releases, migrating manual tests to automation where appropriate, and exploring other opportunities to increase automated testing.
• Troubleshooting web applications – verifying reported live issues, identifying their underlying cause and seeing them through to resolution, liaising with development and product management teams where appropriate.
• Championing testing, effective test automation and good testing practices.
• Actively supporting agile development methods and best practices.
• Supporting and actively work towards test-driven development.
• Helping to improve processes and procedures.
• Producing clear and concise test reports and release notes when needed.
• Assisting with the setting up and configuration of test environments.
• Carrying out tool evaluations and selections.
  
  

• BE, BTech or MCA as educational qualification
• 10+ years of software quality engineering testing experience
• Proficient at Associate Software Developer Level or equivalent experience in the software testing field
• Expert automated test scripting in any object-oriented programming language (Preferably C#) targeting web applications, microservices and mobile applications.
• Expert in using xUnit framework will be an added advantage.
• Hand-on in automation and capable of creating framework and builder for modules.
• Experienced with testing Microservice, Database (like SQL Server & Cosmos DB) and Web Applications
• Expert in database testing. Knowledge on performance and security testing will be an added advantage.
• Working experience with Source/Version control systems (e.g.: Git)
• Hands on experience preparing test environment, test data as per requirement.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies preferable.
• Experience in employee benefits, insurance, healthcare, or wealth management preferred.
• ISTQB certification preferred.
• Certifications or professional training in software engineering principles such as test automation and agile development methodologies desired.