QA Automation Engineer

Flexjet - Cleveland, OH

Full-time

Cleveland, OH

Air Transportation

About the position

The QA Automation Engineer at Flexjet is responsible for analyzing application functionality and designing automated tests to ensure performance and reliability. This role involves developing, executing, and documenting test plans and scripts, as well as assisting non-QA resources with user acceptance testing. The engineer will work within an agile software development environment, collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance software quality.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, design, and implement test automation frameworks for a continuous integration and execution model.
• Create and design the testing approach (Unit, Functional, Integration, System, User).
• Create automation tests by analyzing user stories, acceptance criteria, creating initial test designs, writing scripts, installing the automation testing protocols, and reporting results.
• Develop a repeatable process for designing, developing, and executing scripts.
• Conduct tests, document, and analyze test results, and present findings to development teams.
• Preparing reports on all aspects related to software testing carried out.
• Participating in project meetings including Agile/Scrum grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and daily stand-ups.
• Collaborate within an agile software development process with software engineers, subject matter experts and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Understanding and knowledge of software engineering concepts and methodologies.
• Understanding of test cases and negative, positive and regression testing.
• Understanding of automation testing and experience writing automation tests for REST APIs.
• Experience with writing automation tests using one or more of the following: Postman, Playwright, SpecFlow, Selenium, Appium, etc.
• Extremely proficient in one or more development languages (i.e. C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Gherkin, etc.).
• Knowledge of industry best practices for manual, automation and load testing.
• Experience with deployments and CI/CD practices.
• Experience gathering, refining, and validating business/technical requirements, interdependencies, cross-functional dependencies & risks/issues.
• Knowledge of application functions, bug fixing, and testing protocols.
• Experience with system/platform integrations and the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Shows initiative and is motivated to learn.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written); ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and consultative skills.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Strong attention to detail and committed to a high level of accuracy & quality.