QA Automation Engineer

Ktek Resourcing - Raleigh, NC

Full-time - Senior

Raleigh, NC

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The position is for a Senior Automation Engineer with a strong focus on .NET programming and automation framework development. The role involves building and maintaining API-driven test frameworks and automated test suites, ensuring robust automation solutions that support Agile/Scrum development and CI/CD practices. The candidate will provide automation expertise and training to team members while advocating for automation infrastructure within development teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a robust automation framework built upon established and proven open source or commercial tools (Selenium Web driver + Specflow with .Net) to support Agile/Scrum development, DevOps and CI/CD.
• Design and architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions that satisfy client requirements.
• Provide automation expertise, training, and coaching to team members.
• Keep current with advances in automation methodologies and tools.
• Identify and select automation test cases, creating, enhancing, debugging, and running them.
• Assess functional and technical gaps in designs.
• Support continuous improvement processes, analyzing problems and recommending actions for effective resolution.
• Identify and direct the implementation of test automation related improvements that positively impact software delivery across the enterprise.
• Interact with customers/clients to solve various issues they face and update them on the situation.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in building automated solutions to cover UI frontend, middle tier, and backend interfaces and services.
• Strong .NET coding experience with a good understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Experience in REST Sharp API automation.
• Experience with Selenium Web Driver and BDD framework for .NET - Specflow.
• Experience in the development of automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD DevOps pipelines and Git as source control.
• Hands-on experience with Postman, SOAP UI, Jenkins.
• Experience with microservice architecture.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining API-driven test frameworks and automated test suites.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Agile Methodology.
• Banking domain knowledge.