Principal QA Automation Engineer - Yahoo Finance

Hybrid role 2 days in office per week - Bay Area

Responsibilities:

• Provide QA Leadership through driving best practices, Automation Strategizing, Enabling Developers to build with quality, and challenging the status quo.

• Develop Software Quality Assurance (SQA) test plan, Test case preparation; Test Objectives; Test Strategy; Test types; Testing tools, Test Environment, Root cause analysis. 

• Translate customer requirements into test strategy.

• Ensure that the test cases cover all the test scenarios (E.g., for functionality, performance, security, integration, data migration and accessibility) for the product/solution requirements.

• Execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire product.

• Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery).

• Provides solutions for coding errors by collaborating with software developers to review coding algorithms; developing unit testing plans to test code; developing testing requirements based on code functionality; analyzing testing results to determine needed fixes; querying application logs and databases and checking configuration files to troubleshoot issues encountered during testing; resolving minor code errors; and recommending code fixes or solutions for testing errors.

• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

• Collaborate with the QA organization on continuous improvement of the automation framework via bug fixes and new feature requests.

• Mentor and lead mid-level and junior QA automation engineers on your team on automation best practices and processes

• Working closely with Development, Business Analysts and the Product Owners to ensure project success.

A lot About You:

• 7+ years of combined experience in Web Automation Frameworks.

• A minimum of 5+  years of experience in software testing, knowledge of the software development life cycle and Agile methodology like Scrum/Kanban

• Strong experience with Automation Testing Frameworks such as Selenium Webdriver, Appium.

• Strong technical competency in Javascript.

• Senior SQL Level: able to create SQL queries and have advanced Database Experience

• Experience testing and building test automation for APIs, Integration testing and solid understanding of REST API's

• Experience in building UI and Native App Test Automation Frameworks and libraries

• Strong knowledge of source control tools, like GIT or GITHub

• Hands on experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration Tools (e.g. TFS, Jenkins)

• Experience in Postman, Eclipse, Maven, TestNG or respective open source or similar tools are preferred.

• Understanding of QA practices (white and black box testing, risk based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing practices)

• Experience with one or more Test Case Management Tools (Rally, Quality Center/ALM, TestRail, etc.)

• Proficient in using JIRA to log defects, develop test scenarios, execution and create status reports/dashboards

• Shall be able to set up the test bed, test environment, test data and execution setup.

• Proficient in performing the cross browser testing using any cross browser tool like Browser stack or saucelabs for Local and Other environments

• Proficiency in participating in Root Cause Analysis sessions to identify and address underlying issues

• Comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience with various types of testing, including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing