QA Automation Engineer

Title: QA Automation Engineer

Location: Mumbai, India

The Role: At Morningstar, our mission to help investors drives us every day. We are seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our Direct Web Services team. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to develop and enhance automation frameworks, ensure the quality of financial applications, and contribute to delivering exceptional products.

As a key team member, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement automation strategies, improve test coverage, and ensure seamless integration of automation into CI/CD pipelines. This role offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to an Agile environment while building a strong foundation in automation testing practices.

Responsibilities –

• Define and establish automation strategy and process
• Understand complex nature of the application and come up with the automation testing framework
• Should understand the requirement, design and develop the automation test cases
• Take ownership of QA requirements and provide testing guidance to the technology team
• Should also work as Individual Contributor
• Lead and coordinate the application enhancement and tech ops testing activities with technology and business teams
• Participate in team communication and collaborate in planning activities, including stand-ups, iteration planning meetings (IPM), and retrospectives.
• Manage and communicate regular updates on project status (e.g., work completed, work in progress, next steps, risks, quality, KPIs, and costs) to stakeholders, peers, Product managers, and others.
  
  
  

Requirements –

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Overall experience of 3 to 5 years in Quality Assurance and Testing with relevant hands-on experience in Automation
• Strong experience in Automated Testing of web-based application and APIs
• Expert in UI Automation using tools like Selenium web driver or Playwright & Automation framework development with HANDS-ON
• Used Java, Python, JavaScript as programming language
• Expert in API testing (manual and automation) using Rest Assured frameworks and/or Ready API
• Exposure and know-how of performance testing like JMeter or any other tool
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services / Cloud would be a plus
• Should be self-driven engineer with desire to use practical and professional concepts in QA along with application of QA standards and procedures to resolve routine issues
• Should be able to write use cases based on product requirements, execute them and report issues in bug tracking system
• Should be self-starter, lead and self-contributing to the QA team to build robust and flexible Automated Testing Framework
• Helps QA community to learn Automation, impart necessary technical knowledge
• Hands-on current experience authoring, building and adopting large scale, cross-functional automation frameworks with well-balanced coverage across back-end integration, database levels, UI.
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD process and instrument full SDLC automation
• Improve process and quality via test and process automation: defining right strategy and technology based on process and architecture assessment by engaging different roles and stakeholders
• Experience using SQL with regards to be writing and understanding queries and procedures
  
  
  

Join us in our mission to empower investors by ensuring the highest quality in our products. Be part of a dynamic team driving excellence in QA automation.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer

Morningstars hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as weve found that were at our best when were purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, youll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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