About the position
As a QA Automation Engineer at DATAMAXIS, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our web-based applications. With a focus on automation, you will be responsible for designing and executing comprehensive test cases that align with business requirements and acceptance criteria. Your expertise in automation testing will be essential as you enhance and execute existing automation suites using the Selenium-Java framework, and author service-level scripts using Katalon Studio. You will also initiate and monitor test automation runs on multiple virtual machines through Jenkins, ensuring that our CI/CD pipelines are efficient and effective. In this hybrid role based in Mundelein, IL, you will work closely with Agile/Scrum teams to execute QA testing, interpret test results, and document outcomes. Your ability to analyze results from automation test runs will be critical in identifying issues and ensuring that they are tracked to closure in our issue tracking system, JIRA. You will also be responsible for regression testing applications prior to their release into UAT and production environments, executing smoke tests and regression tests to verify code deployments and system changes. Your technical understanding of web and mobile application development will enable you to provide valuable feedback on requirements, ensuring completeness and testability. You will also assist in maintaining development and testing environments, including user accounts and application configurations. As a highly motivated and dependable individual, you will demonstrate excellent communication skills, working independently while also collaborating with automation leads when further technical assistance is needed.
Responsibilities
- Develop test cases and test scenarios in Zephyr and automated testing tool that provide thorough coverage of implemented features and meets acceptance criteria from business stakeholders.
- Enhance/execute existing automation suite using Selenium-Java framework.
- Author/Execute service level scripts using Katalon Studio.
- Initiate and monitor test automation runs on multiple VMs through Jenkins.
- Execute test automation suites in CI/CD pipelines.
- Regression test applications prior to release into UAT and production environments.
- Execute smoke tests and regression tests in QA, UAT and production environments to verify code deployments and other system changes.
- Create, update and track execution of test cases within Zephyr.
- Identify, replicate, report and track issues to closure in an issue tracking system (JIRA).
- Review requirements, providing feedback on completeness, testability and other risk areas.
- Assist in the maintenance of dev/test environments including user accounts, application configuration and build deployments.
- Identify functional and complete manual tests to be included in automated testing and work on automating candidates for test automation.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of Selenium, Java as well as the ability to produce modular, re-usable code with high quality.
- Work independently and be capable of solving problems and communicate effectively with automation leads when further technical help is required.
Requirements
- Overall 5+ years of experience in designing and executing test cases on web-based applications.
- 4+ years of strong experience in writing automation test scripts in Java using Selenium WebDriver and Grid.
- Basic experience in using tools like Jenkins, Maven, Test NG, JIRA, IDEs like Eclipse or Intellij Idea.
- Must have experience with version control tools like Git/GitHub.
- Experience with service-based testing and automation using either Katalon.
- Experience with running test automation suites in CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with running automation suites in parallel on multiple VMs and browsers.
- Experience in analyzing results of automation test runs.
- Ability to create test cases based on user stories and business requirements.
- Ability to execute QA testing, interpret test results, and document outcomes.
- Expertise writing and executing SQL queries for data testing.
- Must have working experience in Agile/Scrum Teams.
- Experience with web front end, back end and mobile application testing.
- Technical understanding of web application development, mobile application development and deployment concepts.
- Ability to quickly become proficient in new tools/technologies.
- 4-year degree (or higher) in CS / IS or a related field.
- Must be highly motivated and dependable with excellent communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with testing in the following domains is a plus: Web Commerce, ERP / SAP.
