Senior QA Automation Engineer

About the position

The Central Quality Assurance (CQA) Automation team is responsible for developing and maintaining test automation frameworks, as well as managing tools and technologies based on industry best practices. Additionally, CQA focuses on upskilling, coaching, mentoring, and providing technical solutions to the entire Ratings QA organization. Our objective is to continuously add value to the Ratings organization by collaborating with all QA teams and associates, understanding their requirements and challenges, and delivering effective solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable and maintainable automated regression suites & test harnesses.
• Create tools and frameworks with quality code to simplify testing scenarios.
• Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams.
• Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria.
• Act as a test lead, planning the work of other testing staff and assigning tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Use strong testing skills to provide guidance and assist project staff.
• Review and approve the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results and defect descriptions.
• Ensure best practices are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
• Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database testing requirements.
• Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment.
• Involved in requirements review and participate in architecture/design reviews with an emphasis on test automation/performance strategy and ensuring best practices.
• Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities.
• Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions.
• Estimate and perform risk analysis for quality delivery and Agile evangelist.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software testing experience in all phases of testing including test planning, test execution and test closure.
• Excellent understanding of QA and testing methodologies, best practices.
• 6+ years of experience as a QA Automation developer.
• 6+ years of experience in developing, maintaining, and executing automation tests utilizing tools such as Selenium required (Python preferred), Tricentis Tosca.
• Excellent hands-on experience in Python & OOPs Concept.
• Good to have JavaScript hands-on experience.
• Create Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) infrastructure and processes to QA Automation scripts.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, supporting teams with different release schedules, testing needs, and codebases.
• 5+ Years of experience in Agile processes (Scrum preferred).
• Experience of working with SOAP and REST service and understanding of SOA architecture.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in creating and maintaining automation frameworks is mandatory.
• Experience using SQL to query databases required.
• Exposure to distributed source control systems such as Git.
• Experience with change management and defect tracking tools.
• Zeal to be domain expert and learn new technologies.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written communications.
• High standards of confidentiality; ability to handle sensitive information with integrity and trust.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Azure and experience of testing micro-services, containers, Dockers and Kubernetes is preferred.

Benefits

• Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in-class benefits for families.
• From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.