The selected candidate must be knowledgeable and experienced as a Quality Assurance Automation API Test Engineer for server based application software testing; having experience both creating and maintaining software automation test scripts. Likewise, the candidate must have a working knowledge of software engineering concepts such as software development standards, quality assurance standards, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), interpretation of product requirements, test plan and test case development, testing of software functionality, product installation, performance, and load.

 

Principle Responsibilities Includes:

•Creating, maintenance and evaluation of software automation test scripts (including incorporation of dynamic test data)

•Gathering and validating application functional/performance/load requirements

•Creation and maintenance of test plans and test cases

•Execution, as required, of manual and automated software testing in areas involving installation, functional, performance and load, integration, and regression testing

•Management of defects within a corporate defect tracking system

•Documentation of process improvements regarding best practices regarding test automation

•Creation of test reports and maintenance of all test documentation

 

Education and Experience:

•A minimum of three years of structured software quality assurance engineering experience is required.

•Three to five years of hands-on experience with the development of automated test scripts, execution of test cases and reporting and dissemination of test results.

•A Bachelor’s Degree--preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, similar discipline, or equivalent work experience is required.

 

Required Skills and Competencies:

Note: Experience denotes “successfully demonstrated experience”.

 

•Production software development experience with 2-3 OO programming languages with Java preferred with some Groovy experience.

•Experience with developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts

•Experience with automated testing applications/IDE’s such as IntelliJ.

•Experience with API testing tools such as Katalon, Postman, SoapUI.

•Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2012/2016

•Experience with commercial defect management systems such as JIRA

•Experience working within an Agile Development Environment

•Excellent analytical and problem solving and communication skills

•Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, files systems, and other program objects.

 

Desired Skills:

•Experience writing production RESTful interfaces

•Experience writing production Java, C#, .NET

•Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

•Experience with.NET Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience

•Experience with a CI/CD tool such as Jenkins, Team City, CircleCI, etc.

•Working knowledge of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

•Experience with source control management software, such as Git, Tortoise SVN/Subversion

•Scripting Proficiency (i.e. Groovy, Cygwin, Dos, Bash, Perl, Python, and/or VBscript)