QA Automation Engineer
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Job Description - QA Automation Engineer
Location: Not specified
Company: Morningstar
About the Role:
As a QA Automation Engineer, you will contribute to the work of the digital products team and ensure that new and existing products meet high standards of usability and quality. This is a full-stack QA role that requires a blend of SQL skills, automation, and manual testing.
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaboration: Actively participate in the product team throughout the lifecycle, collaborating on the analysis, design, development, and testing.
- Release Planning: Participate in release planning meetings to create stories with acceptance criteria and help identify missing or incomplete requirements.
- Automation Framework: Maintain and develop new strategies for the automation framework and related activities.
- Script Creation: Create and execute automated scripts for regression, integration, and functional testing on newly designed or modified applications/systems.
- Defect Reporting: Clearly articulate defects verbally and in writing, and monitor/update defect reports to ensure timely resolution.
- Risk Analysis: Perform application and project risk analysis, recommending quality improvements.
- Follow-Up: Independently follow up with design/development resources regarding defects.
- Communication: Communicate defects or delays in software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
- Mentorship: Mentor and coach team members and new team members.
- Performance Testing: Evaluate solutions to design, script, and execute performance tests (Load, Stress).
- Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of relevant QA technical experience.
- Strong knowledge of QA tools, concepts, and methodologies to translate requirements into test plans.
- Clear communicator (written and verbal) to ensure cross-functional team collaboration and work with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and databases.
- Required Technologies and Concepts:
- SQL (PostgreSQL), with the ability to write complex queries.
- Test Automation experience, with a focus on Python, Selenium, JMeter, Jenkins, and Postman.
- Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables with the ability to make quick, informed decisions.
Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.
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Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and solutions that serve a wide range of market participants, including individual and institutional investors in public and private capital markets, financial advisors and wealth managers, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and issuers of fixed-income securities. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $328 billion in AUMA as of Sept. 30, 2024. The Company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries in 32 countries.
