Software Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Role and Responsibilities

• Replicate issues in the QA environment as well as communicate resolutions and workarounds to the development teams.
• Analyze user stories and acceptance criteria to determine the test strategy on a per-sprint basis, including risk analysis and prioritization.
• Reviews all requirements and creates a test strategy for a project.
• Create test plans to thoroughly cover scenarios for new feature work.
• Plan, schedule, and perform software tests.
• Communicate results of software testing efforts to the rest of the team through test reports and Jira. • Validating that the user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
• Reporting clearly the status of assigned tasks and testing efforts to managers and business stakeholders.
• Design, develop, and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
• 3 to 5+ years of experience in software Quality Assurance and testing roles, emphasizing backend service and mobile applications, and end-to-end integration testing verification.
• Selenium (Java) experience is mandatory for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with Selenium and Appium (Android and iOS).
• Experience with IoT device testing, including hardware interaction or BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) communication.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, software testing principles, and automation best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and AWS Code Pipeline.
• Experience in writing and executing automated testing scripts is required.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Experience with Test Management, Defect Tracking tools, and code repositories like JIRA and Bitbucket.
• Ability to provide multiple paths of testing utilizing a risk-based approach.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools.
• Self-starter with the ability to handle multiple priorities and projects.
• Performance and/or security testing is a plus.
• Understanding of Non-Functional testing and End-to-End Systems Integration testing.