Software Test Automation Engineer (JavaScript)

Project Description

Join a small, close-knit team building and supporting Cloud-based Data Integration Infrastructure and Data Connectivity components including Web Data, File Access, etc.

Required Skills and Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline or related work experience equivalent to a four-year college degree program is normally required
• 5 or more years test automation experience
• Experience using scripting languages to create testing tools and automation, specifically JavaScript
• Must be able to analyze functional test plans to derive a set of automation objectives which are thorough, optimal and complete.
• Demonstrate ability to efficiently design, implement and execute automated test suites
• Must understand object-oriented programming and be able to write modular and extensible code
• Must be able to research and interview effectively to obtain technical information for automation tasks
• Ability to understand the technical design of the automation framework and formulate innovative ideas for extending the framework to better address automation needs
• Some experience using Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and/or Microsoft Azure is preferred
• Domain and technical experience in the area of databases, data formats and protocols, and data access using data and integration technologies/APIs such as ODBC, JDBC, REST, XML, JSON, etc. is a plus
• Systems Management experience a huge plus
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience with Agile development methods and iterative planning

Job Responsibilities

• Review market requirements, functional specifications and detailed design documents to derive test objectives
• Design and implement automated test scenarios
• Execute automated test suites and analyze results
• Design and execute manual test cases, as needed, based on test objectives
• Contribute to the maintenance and further development of the test automation framework
• Bootstrap, configure, populate and maintain test systems with third-party data sources for the purpose of automated and manual testing