Senior QA Automation Engineer

Responsible for ensuring high quality outcomes through the software development process by testing each part to ensure it meets company standards before moving to the next phase.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for setup, configuration, and maintenance of automation environment and framework.

• Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible and reusable test automation harness and scripts.

• Develop efficient and accurate automated performance test scripts.

• Accurately communicate testing estimates, status, and continually work toward removing project roadblocks with targeted on-time delivery against stated schedules.

• Identify, report, and track product defects as well as address need for additional product functionality in a clear and concise form.

• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, ability to automate, or testing implications.

• Evaluates, builds, executes, and maintains a full test automation library with test scenarios to ensure requirements coverage and regression coverage.

• Write, revise, and verify test plans and test procedures for program defect identification, environment needs, and product feature evaluations.

• Assist in the evaluation and perform functional, regression, and integrated testing against new or modified software programs and procedures used to verify that programs function according to requirements and conform to establishment guidelines, manual or automated

• Act as a coach and mentor for others.

• Analyze test results and defects to substantiate the quality of the application/system; analyze trends, severity, and characterization of defects; and track and provide reports of discovered defects.

• Distribute, communicate and manage QA projects with minimal intervention while ensuring a seamless delivery.

• Establish, track to, and consistently report QA Automation metric driven goals to leadership; conduct internal audits to ensure adherence to established QA processes and standards.

• This position may require availability outside of standard business hours as part of a rotational on-call schedule

Qualifications
Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• At least 3+ years of professional technical experience in software testing.

• At least 2+ years of creating Automation Scripts from the ground up (not just updating existing scripts)

• Extensive understanding and continued learnings around QA methodology, tools, and approaches.

• Expertise and continued growth in various forms of software testing as well as automation concepts.

• Ability to identify and resolve critical issues with ease ensuring repeatability, maintainability, and scalability.

• Ability to comprehend, perform project planning and execution, and mentor others while delivering on large, complex QA initiatives with minimal assistance and review.

• Strong understanding of technology, software quality assurance standards and practices with a natural inquisitiveness.

• Strong written and verbal communication with active listening skills and the ability to interact with a wide variety of technical and non-technical personnel via matrix navigation.

• Ability to logically identify issues using a level of abstraction and troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills and prediction where necessary in identifying defects, test coverage, and gaps in requirements.

• Ability to read and interpret business requirements and read, write and identify test specifications, test plans, and test scenarios.

• Ability to balance individual and team effort in collaborative processes while meeting set deadlines.

• Strong written and detail-oriented skills to effectively produce quality test cases and related test and release documentation with a high level of coverage.

Preferred

• Experience with structured delivery processes 

• Experience with full lifecycle development and using Agile methods 

• Experience in working with web-based, pc-based, and mobile applications built with Java, .NET, Web technologies, Linux utilizing varying databases for data storage and retrieval.

• Knowledge of where test automation applies, its usage, and maintenance needs.

• Selenium or test automation scripting tool equivalent.

• Ability to interpret and apply scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript) used by the test automation tool.

• Familiarity with Node.js, web object identification (e.g. XPath)

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Netsmart desires to provide a healthy and safe workplace and, as a government contractor, Netsmart is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal law. Pursuant to Netsmart policy, all post-offer candidates are required to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, which is provided at Netsmart’s sole expense.