Software Test Automation Engineer

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

Desired Competencies:

Minimum 3+ years of experience in software test automation and manual Testing.
Experience working in SQL and basic Java programming is required
Experience in working with any reporting tool is a plus
Experience working in Agile environment is a plus
Good understanding of source control systems (SVN) and release management
Analyze Business and Technical Requirements:
Assess compatibility of requirements with company quality standards
Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of product requirements
Develop detailed acceptance requirements for use cases (user stories)
Test planning Design, Test Execution and Reporting:

Understand the system design in order to contribute to the development of the project and ensure the quality of the result
Design, develop, organize, and maintain functional and non-functional test cases
Identify potential risks and seek testing approaches to manage that risk
Develop, implement and maintain automated test scripts
Execute test cases for Functional, Regression, Performance, Load, Integration, System, GUI
Analyze defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible, and clearly document issues and bugs
Work towards in debugging and fixing defects, retesting and resolving open issues
Development and enhancement of automation frameworks:

Work closely with developers, architects to understand underlying architecture and code in order to develop test strategies across different layers of the application
Understand test automation needs, task out work, and provide feedback on design solutions
Develop toolsets, frameworks for test automation
Extend, enhance, update the existing automation frameworks to work with new services and write end-to-end automation for user scenarios (UI, service layer, API, integration, and performance testing)
Automate newly integrated features
Assist or lead the scrum team in ensuring comprehensive coverage using automated testing, as well as manual where appropriate
Effectively communicate with project leaders and Engineering Management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts
Communicate and report out the testing efforts and technical aspects of projects