Senior Automation Engineer

24 Nov 2024

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Fantastic opportunity for a Senior Automation Engineer!Our Chicago-based client is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to join their Quality Assurance (QA) organization and play an integral role in building out the test automation services.You will be developing test automation for products in the enterprise, mobile, or healthcare space. You’ll work with all product and platform development aspects, including collaborating with hardware, media content, and design engineering teams to build our test automation solutions.The Senior Test Automation Engineer plays an essential role in ensuring the quality of products and platforms. The primary responsibility will be to partner with developers, global/regional product owners, and QA Team to define, design, and build or modify the automation framework.You will develop a deep understanding of our products and the complex use cases to test them. You will also create a robust set of automated tests that will result in a deep and flexible set of tests that become the primary foundation of our regression deployment and continuous delivery testing. In addition, you’ll be responsible for maintaining these frameworks by following the current standards and coordinating test execution, training users, and providing user support.This position is located in Chicago, IL, with a 3-day onsite, 2-day remote work schedule.

Please submit your resume with the link to your LinkedIn Profile.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Collaborate with Product Owners/BA’s/Architects/QA Testers in refinement and defining story acceptance criteria for controls-based software utilized in automated systems for material movement.
  • Analyze system requirements and review technical specifications to assess, evaluate, and create testing requirements for all software components for functional and end-to-end scenarios.
  • Follows and coaches’ best practices for construction and utilization of Hybrid Testing Framework (data-driven, Keyword Driven) to support Dev and DevOps in Test/Behavior-driven designs and DevOps CI/CD pipelines for test automation/integration.
  • Collaborate and contribute to automation test system architecture, methodologies, and processes using industry best practices and innovation of testing framework.
  • Design, construct and maintain automated test reporting infrastructure for providing technical, project, and business visibility to software quality.
  • Assist with performance test creation, execution, and integration into CI/CD.
  • Collaborate with deployment engineers around customer acceptance test plans evaluating areas of automation before software deployment.
  • Works as a multi-skilled professional practicing SAFe Agile in both a SCRUM/Kanban methodology.
  • Taking part in continuous improvement through sharing of knowledge and coaching within the team.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of total professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in software testing and test automation of web- and API- based solutions
  • 5+ years of experience working in Agile projects
  • 2+ years of experience with JMeter, Postman, and Cucumber
  • Expertise implementing Automation Frameworks like TDD/BDD, Keyword, POM, and Hybrid Frameworks (e.g., Selenium)
  • Experience with test automation tools like Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber
  • Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
  • Experience with RESTful service architecture
  • Experience with SQL language in one or more database platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)
  • Experience with Modern React, Node.js, and testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Chai, Typescript, Cypress, or Puppeteer
  • Working experience in automation of performance testing with tools like JMeter, LoadRunner or SoapUI
  • Hands-on experience with mobile automation (preferably Android)
  • Familiarity with development build environments (e.g., Jenkins, Maven, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with Eclipse or other IDE development tools
  • Experience with distributed source control systems such as Git
  • Experience in requirements gathering, designing test plans, defect management, project tracking, reporting, and End of Test report creation
  • Integration of testing controls into CI/CD pipeline and within release management processes
  • Experience with test runners reporting and linking into Continuous Integration (CI) servers such as Jenkins, Travis or CircleCI
  • Exposure to omnichannel (multi-browser & interoperability) testing
  • Experience testing cloud-based software with domain-driven designs utilizing Docker and Kubernetes

Preferred
  • Bachelors Degree preferred
  • 3+ years of experience in a QA leadership role
  • Knowledge of Linux, ssh, and shell scripting
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
  • Certification with TMAP and/or ISTQB
Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workforce.

About the Company:Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) has been Chicago's premier Information Technology (IT) staffing, consulting, and recruiting firm for over 23+ years. Named after Chicago's historic Peterson Avenue, PTP has built its reputation by developing lasting relationships, leading digital transformation, and inspiring technical innovation throughout Chicagoland.Based in Park Ridge, IL, PTP's 250+ employees have a narrow focus on a single market (Chicago) and expertise in 4 innovative technical areas;· Cybersecurity· Artificial Intelligence· Data Science· Cloud & DevOpsPTP exists to ensure that all of our partners (clients and candidates alike) make the best hiring and career decisions.

  • ID: #23393075
  • State: Illinois Chicago 60290 Chicago USA
  • City: Chicago
  • Salary: $100,000 - $120,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-11-24
  • Deadline: 2022-01-17
  • Category: Et cetera