Lead Software Test Automation Engineer

Wolters Kluwer
Newyorkcity, NY
03 Jul 2024

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Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance division is looking for a Lead Software Test Automation Engineer to join our GRC CT team. The position is 100% remote but expected to work EST time zone.

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) is a division of Wolters Kluwer that provides a broad spectrum of solutions, services, and expertise to legal, finance, risk and compliance professionals and small business owners to help manage myriad governance, risk and compliance challenges in dynamic markets and regulatory environments, globally. GRC Solutions serves more than 350,000 customers in more than 150 countries, including 70% of Fortune 500 companies, 92% of the world's top banks, 90% of the Am Law 100 and more than 300,000 small businesses. The division has a global footprint, with workforce in 28 countries. Our clients include corporate legal departments, insurers, small businesses, financial services companies, brand professionals, underwriters, governments, and compliance & risk professionals.

GRC CT business unit contains our expert information services businesses that serve large corporations, small businesses, and law firms. This group specializes in the incorporation and legal business compliance solutions and clearance and protection solutions for trademark and brand professionals. This business area brings its solutions to market as CT, which serves corporations and small businesses; NRAI, BizFilings.

The Lead Software Test Automation Engineer will lead a cross platform Enterprise QA team creating and executing overall test strategy by utilizing broad knowledge and awareness of test automation approaches, practices and techniques to achieve end-to-end quality. Accountable for overall test strategy and quality delivery of a large digital transformation program, he/she will support multiple enterprise systems and development teams which are aligned to transformation, continuous improvement, and agile delivery. This position is responsible for defining and implementing a test strategy that balances manual and automated testing to increase scrum team productivity, and ensure application quality, health and stability. The ideal applicant will thrive in a highly collaborative workplace and actively engage in the development and testing process. The candidate will seek to continuously define and improve testing processes to enable quality delivery by Scrum teams. This is QA Lead position with hands-on skills working directly with the Agile Scrum teams. Ideal candidate should have experience leading cross platform teams and be very comfortable with change working collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

Essential Duties and responsibilities
  • Ownership and implementation of Test strategy for multiple enterprise systems (.NET, Azure, Salesforce, MuleSoft, Pega) aligned to industry best practices. Test strategy balances manual and automated testing.
  • Test Engineering COE lead for offshore/nearshore test automation team members and performance testers supporting multiple work streams working in agile scrum model.
  • Ownership of Delivery of Quality software to customers.
  • Establish and track KPIs to measure quality, efficiency and effectiveness of QA practices.
  • Enable continuous improvement by review and recommendations for improvement of QA processes and practices
  • Guide the scrum teams to implement test strategy, providing solutions to problems faced by the scrum teams and continuously improving the strategy based on the feedback received from scrum teams.
  • Collaborate with architecture, and software development teams in all aspects of the development lifecycle from early design feedback, functional automation, reliability, stress, performance, integration testing, NFRs testing, through to supporting production issues
  • Work with scrum teams to setup and improve automated testing (E2E, Performance testing, etc) and related best practices
  • Collaborate with DevOps to integrate automation tests into the CI/CD pipelines
Interpersonal Skills
  • Servant Leader - earn the team's respect and roll up your sleeves to help the team succeed
  • Communicative and social - interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types
  • Assertive - must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority
  • Situationally Aware - must notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to the team and to management, as appropriate. Proven problem-solver
  • Enthusiastic - must be high-energy. An active participant in all team activities. A passionate advocate for quality and the agile-mindset.
  • Attitude of transparency - must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about the team and grow business trust
  • Competencies - Analytical Skills, Functional Expertise, Judgment & Decision Making, Inclusive Collaboration, Effective Communication, Customer Solution Focus, Drive to Perform, Accountability, Flexible Responsiveness, Operational Excellence, Creativity & Innovation, and Courage to take smart risks
  • Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Job Qualifications
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science. Master's degree or related certifications are a plus
Experience
  • 10+ years of experience in software testing (manual and automation)
  • 7+ years of functional testing and performance testing experience with tools like Selenium (required), Protractor, ReadyAPI, Postman, NeoLoad, etc.
  • 5+ years of experience leading test automation capability in an enterprise setup
  • Proficient in developing E2E test approaches (functional, performance, api testing, Load testing)
  • Proficiency in designing and automating test cases that involve multiple clouds, platforms, and systems
  • Experience leading a team of test Automation engineers and performance test engineers
  • Experience working with databases (RDBMS, SQL Server preferred or NoSQL like Mongo DB)
  • Experience working with DevOps to integrate tests with CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with GIT based source control management systems
  • Experience with agile development methodologies, specifically Scrum and Kanban
  • Experience with NFRs tesing
  • Preferred: Experience with manual and automation testing of Salesforce and/or Pega
Skills/Tools:
  • Selenium (Required), Protractor, Postman, Jenkins, Neoload, tools to test across browsers
  • Java / Javascript / C# (Any one)
  • Experience with RDBMS database (SQL Server preferred) or No SQL (Mongo)
  • Azure Cloud (Preferred), AWS, GCP
  • Azure DevOps / Git / GitHub
  • Application Security knowledge
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:Preferred:
  • Experience with Salesforce, Mulesoft, Pega
  • Experience implementing test automation for MuleSoft
  • Experience implementing test automation for Salesforce
  • Experience implementing test automation for Pega
  • Tools: Blackduck, 42 Crunch, Robot
Travel Requirements
  • Domestic travel less than 10% of work time.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications as these may vary depending on location and line of business. The specific requirements may differ due to local or regional differences.
  • ID: #43798975
  • State: New York Newyorkcity 10001 Newyorkcity USA
  • City: Newyorkcity
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-07-03
  • Deadline: 2022-08-31
  • Category: Et cetera