Automation Engineer Associate Advisor

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management, as well as personnel, regarding all facets of application development, testing and automation solutions across diverse development, financial, operational, and computing environments.
• Provides strategic vision in architectural design and Test Automation guidance for the team, emphasizing a thorough evaluation of the quality attributes of a software system. This includes considerations for smoke, functional, regression, rather than focusing solely on the functionality of individual features. Additionally, actively oversees and manages the design of supported automation solutions.
• Conduct comprehensive research and evaluation of all potential solutions to recommend the most efficient and cost-effective automation solution that can be reused with an enterprise mindset, facilitating scalability for both existing and new applications with minimal modifications.
• Ensures that engineering solutions are aligned with the overall Technology strategy while addressing all application requirements.
• Demonstrate industry-leading technical abilities that enhance product quality and optimize day-to-day operations.
• Understand how changes impact work upstream and downstream including various back end and front-end architectural modules.
• Enhance personnel effectiveness using heat matrices to prioritize Quality and Development Engineering resources on high-impact interfaces while identifying areas of lesser focus.
• Develop and implement automation solutions to improve engineering and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and optimize automated solutions and related artifacts to ensure seamless execution in CI/CD pipelines and on local machines, minimizing software and package dependencies or conflicts to reduce cycle time.
• Execute on a strategy to hand over the automation solutions to every Agile teams for adoption and use within their areas of focus, requiring zero maintenance and minimal effort for any enhancements without delving into coding.
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.
• Recognized internally as a subject matter expert.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in a Functional Test Automation engineering role.
• Demonstrated practical experience with Selenium, BDD, TDD, Python, Cucumber and OpenShift, and various other open-source functional testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated capability to develop script-less frameworks that are scalable to enterprise level for various applications, achieved through configuration rather than coding.
• Conduct benchmarking, assess scalability, flexibility, reusability, and other functional testing aspects. Identify and address technical issues in collaboration with Development and cross-functional teams to ensure clear communication and effective follow-up.
• Familiarity with contemporary delivery practices, including DevOps, continuous deployment, continuous integration, continuous testing, behavior-driven development, and specification by example.
• A strong foundation and practical experience in programming languages, particularly Python, Shell Scripts are essential for developing a reusable functional testing framework that meets the requirements of enterprise-level applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud infrastructure and platforms, including Amazon Web Services and OpenShift.

Required Experience & Education:

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• 5 - 8 years of professional experience in Functional Test Automation is required. This includes expertise in Desktop, Mobile, API, Web, and Cloud.
• At least 3 years of experience in Agile methodologies is required.
• Familiarity with an onshore/offshore operational model is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in the architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions is required.

Desired Experience:

• Proficient in Functional Test Automation and automation methodologies.
• Proficient in triaging and identifying functional issues, including root cause analysis, connection problems, and application bottlenecks.
• Providing coaching and guidance to team members.