Job Title: Senior Quality Automation Engineer

Location: Fort Lauderdale,FL (100% Onsite)

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides quick feedback throughout the development and design process; analyzes / reports on the test results to confirm that the quality of the intended solution is met.
• Supports test planning (including testability of requirement), test design/development test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes. Integrates directly into a teams continuous delivery process, augmenting the delivery of quality software and ensuring speed, agility and risk management.
• Serve as a partner and provide ongoing support to the enterprise and/or business, aligning to Testing Methodology and QE best-practices
• Analyze the end-to-end solution (business, solution requirements, architecture, blueprints, etc.) requirements to recommend pragmatic solutions for own area; may analyze, develop, debug, and maintain test suites (automated/ manual), traceability matrix; and log defects/assist in defect resolution, as required
• Hands on experience implementing effective test strategies and providing guidance to delivery teams in using tools, setting environments that support on-going quality and traceability
• Support the team in test activities across the testing lifecycle, with a focus on value driven outcomes, and assist in defining test data and test environment requirements
• Leverage virtual assets to support virtualization of any incomplete / unavailable code, service, database, etc.
• Basic knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities to be able to adopt a standard test data tool set
• Support source code management looking for opportunities to effectively leverage tools and engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, SV, monitoring tools and process, etc.
• Contribute early to the design and development process to ensure built-in-quality code
• Implement test scripts ensuring they are integrated into the continuous integration, delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipeline for functional and non-functional automation (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) following agreed upon approach using available frameworks
• Responsible and / or accountable for documenting and supporting the proactive identification of end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities
• Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate appropriate user stories, acceptance criteria and definitions of done / ready
• Apply the principles of Behavior / Test-Driven Development (BDD / TDD) and focus on value driven outcomes
• Provide feedback, reporting and analytics on overall quality / performance, user experience, and future bug prevention

Employee/Team

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge / expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit; Support knowledge-sharing across teams and with relevant stakeholders, ensuring knowledge is codified, monitored, tracked and managed
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up to date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to the success of the team by willingly assisting others in the completion and performance of work activities; provide training, coaching and/or guidance as appropriate.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Breadth & Depth

• Experienced working professional role providing specialized testing planning, design, automation and execution services.
• Solid debugging and problem-solving skills solving moderately complex problems.
• Supports the introduction and adherence to new / advanced techniques and approaches in testing and automation.
• Foundational experience in software configuration and code management.
• Good expertise in build / code / release management to enable defect avoidance.
• Solid business and technology acumen, works with other stakeholders to identify opportunities to benefit the Client and / or introduce operational improvements.
• Ability to drive work efforts related to moderately complex applications / systems / projects within one product line / business.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal guidance and direction.
• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork, and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking.
• Collaborative team player
• Future focused - foresees issues and gaps and identifies industry trends.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• At least 5 -7 years of experience in automation development and testing
• Strong experience in test automation development for full stack components
• API / UI automation Skills:
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, or C#
• Experience in UI Automation using Selenium
• Experience with REST API using REST Assured framework
• Experience with Git source control tools such as Bitbucket and GitHub
• ETL / backend testing skills:
• Strong working knowledge of ETL process and industry wide tools used for data validation, ex - QuerySurge, Talend, Informatica, data stage
• Hands on experience with ingestion / extraction
• Knowledge of Data Masking, Data Integration, Data Mapping
• Proficient with SQL and well-formed understanding of data, data modeling, data mining and ETL processes
• Define and establish Data Quality standards for the data driven implementations on Hadoop platform and SQL Server.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux system.

Nice to have:

• Hive, Pig and Hadoop Streaming, HBase, HDFS
• Experience in Agile development methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Knowledge of software testing principles and best practices
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to research problems and provide recommendations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• General knowledge of bank and technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications)