SW QA Automation Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates
Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios
Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests
Conducts code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts
Partner with the developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation
Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments, CI-CD pipelines and to be used by NOC teams.
Regularly execute, maintain and upkeep automated test suites and analyze the results to identify the cause for failures.
Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of the fix, and required automation updates
Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new Production releases
Work with cross teams and release management team to manage dev, QA, and production release of the software
Perform exploratory testing to understand the feature and how it is implemented, to find additional or unexpected behavior, and to refine and define additional test cases for the feature
Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry standard tools and approaches
Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code
Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those