QA Automation Engineer

Ness Digital Engineering designs and builds digital platforms and software that help organizations engage customers, differentiate their brands, and drive revenue growth. Our customer experience designers, software engineers and data experts partner with clients to develop roadmaps that identify ongoing opportunities to increase the value of their digital products and services.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Test planning and execution: create, enhance and maintain effective and automated test scenarios for report testing, ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage
• Carry out exploratory manual testing (. smoke testing, regression testing for both functional and non-functional features of the application)
• Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications
• Actively support Agile development methods and best practices
• Using JIRA to track defects and tasks
• Take part in meetings, provide estimates, assist in presenting issues and solutions
• Collaborate with other Development Team members in planning phase of User Stories during Scrum Sprints, and with the QA team in areas such as training and assistance
• Support business test team in UAT

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years of Software Testing experience within SDLC, preferably in an agile or iterative development environment
• Experience building automated testing frameworks using c#/Java/Cucumber/Selenium/Visual Studio/Specflow
• Hands-on experience of test planning, execution and maintenance of automated (feature files) and manual test scenarios using the principles of BDD process
• RDB andQL
• Rest API automation
• Source control management ideally in Git
• Passion for continuous integration and automated testing 
• Understand how to achieve and maintain high quality code
• Self-starter, with strong self-management skills and the ability to perform under pressure
• Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies
• Hands-on experience of test planning, execution and maintenance of automated (feature files) and manual test scenarios
• Experience in cross browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari) and cross platform testing
• Experience in defining functional and non-functional automated testing frameworks
• Understanding of risk identification and analysis
• Great communication skills
• Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail

Desirable:

• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence
• Experience in automation for mobile devices
• AWS
• TestRail
• ISTQB qualifications