Location: Chicago, Illinois
Employment Type: Contract
Job ID: 592
Date Added: 04/14/2023
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WORK TO BE PERFORMED:
- Work with BA, Developers, Team Lead and PO to carry out assigned tasks on functional & integration tests in a cloud-based development and deployment environment.
- Develop end to end working knowledge of application, monitoring tools and infrastructure to drive day to day QA activities.
- Proactively investigate issues (including deep diving) identified during testing & categorize them with all details to facilitate quicker resolution by development team.
- Identify and utilize tools including writing automated test scripts to simplify testing.
- Produce traceable artifacts (wiki page, Jira, FAQs) that will help team build center of excellence on testing.
- Champions testing methodologies, best practices, and standards.
- Build test automation framework, as well as integrating test automation with the company’s CI/CD/build pipelines.
- Write self-documenting and well-structured tests that will be easy to work with and adapt for fellow SDETs.
- Assist in training project team members to execute, analyze, and maintain automated regression suites.
- Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed.
- Use automated functional scripts built using tools such as Citrus, Selenium, Rest Assured, Java, Junit, Gherkin scripting in Cucumber or other open source or vended applications.
- Executes manual or automated test cases that validate the functionalities, code quality and reports test results, following all formal test architectures and project processes.
- Work with Scrum Master, Product Owner and team to groom backlog, estimate level of effort, Identify and add dependencies.
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- At least 5 years of executing automation scripts using open-source tools to include 5+ Years of SDET relevant experience.
- Experience writing & executing automated testing utilizing various tools.
- Work in functional & Integration testing of UI, APIs and cloud based dockerized applications.
- Work experience in monitoring and troubleshooting in a cloud-based applications.
- Communication skills and ability to articulate verbal and written mode of communications.
- Good team player with experience working in Agile Development environment.
- Experience working with SQL and NO_SQL databases.
- Experience working with modern SDLC including CI/CD and infrastructure as code (involving terraform, ansible and helm charts)
- Experience with any form of scripting or OO programming (preferred).
- Understanding of different database technologies SQL/No-SQL for testing implications.
- Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties.
- Work effectively in fast-paced, can deliver production quality software within tight schedules.
Preferred areas:
Java, python, Junit, Citrus, RestAssured, Selenium, CICD tools, AWS Cloud, Splunk
BS degree in Computer Science, or similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
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