Quality Automation Engineer

: Long term contract to hire position with a major Financial client in Newark, NJ. Hybrid work environment - 2-3 days per week onsite. : The Quality Engineer is a key contributor responsible for performing quality management practices to satisfy software acceptance criteria and/or test requirements using industry leading tools and techniques. Working to support an iterative Agile team, the Quality Engineer identifies and drives innovative testing and test automation approaches that turn ideas and concepts into reality. Duties include Identifying test scenarios and components, while planning and executing tests with a focus on test automation. This requires expertise with a variety of test automation methodologies, practices and procedures with a dedication to high-quality, and efficiency for maximum velocity. We are looking for someone who is outcome focused, loves challenges, can work collaboratively and who exemplifies the virtues of our talent model: Humble, Hungry and Smart. Responsibilities:

• Collaborate as a member of an Agile/Product Development team to define and implement testing and test automation strategies and techniques.
• Maintain and extend automated tests and test automation frameworks.
• Determine and manage required test data.
• Work collaboratively to optimize test coverage.
• Partner with DevOps teams to onboard automated tests to stay consistent with an infrastructure established to support continuous testing.
• Support team member knowledge-sharing and skills transfer, to increase team productivity.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer.
• Experience with different development and testing techniques (i.e., Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven).
• Development and Behavior Driven Development) a plus.
• Experience with test automation design, development practices, frameworks, and related tools that support unit, integration, functional and non-functional test automation.
• Hands on experience with Selenium using Java.
• Ability to work with Agile methodologies in a fast-paced environment required Knowledge of cloud technology, DevOps and Jenkins preferred.
• Experience testing dynamic web pages (HTML5), relational database technology and XML/JSON desired.
• Experience testing REST services desired.

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