Senior QA Automation Engineer

About This Role:

Comscore are looking for a new Senior QA Automation Engineer who will define and build a new automation system for testing Comscore's on-device meters. The first usecase for the new system will be automating application and website testing on Windows. The Senior QA Automation Engineer will collaborate with developers, testers and engineering management to define the system's MVP, and its implementation timeline. Once available, they will work with product developers and QA to integrate the new automation system into existing engineering workflows and pipelines and will help to migrate existing manual tests into the new system.

What You’ll Do:

• Evaluate existing automation tools, languages, and systems for usefulness in this effort.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define the MVP and follow-on automation feature priorities.
• Build the new system using a combination of off-the-shelf- tools and custom programming they provide.
• Provide periodic project status reports to project managers and other stakeholders.
• Help to migrate existing test cases into the new automation system, once possible.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of experience in a QA role; 2+ years in a senior role
• 2+ years developing and maintaining a software automation solution
• Experience testing / automating multiple, full-cycle software releases.
• Experience automating native Windows software applications, to include:
• Automating the management of VM sessions, updates, and configurations
• Automating software installations, simulating user behaviors, and validating website content.
• Defining automation test cases; managing test case runs and produced artifacts
• Generating quality reports and delivering progress updates to management and stakeholders.
• Creating new automation features, including design, effort estimation, development, and peer review.
• Familiarity with AWS concepts and topics related to AWS deployments and testing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and practices. Bonus: prior, 1st-hand experience integrating test automation into a CI pipeline.
• Experience in both 'Waterfall' and Agile project methodologies, with a basic understanding of each's SDLC.
• Experience with or an interest in the following languages:
• PhP, Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, SQL, Auto IT
• Tools / Frameworks of interest:
• Microsoft testing ecosystem experience (e.g. 'Winium', 'CodedUI', MSTest, UIA/MSAA, etc.)
• Atlassian suite (Jira, SourceTree, Confluence, BitBucket, etc.)
• Git
• Selenium
• Zephyr, or other integrated testcase management solution.
• Virtualization technologies (Hyper-V; VMWare, etc.)

Shift Timing:

The regular hours for this position will cover a combination of business hours in the US and India – typically 5:30 PM-2:30 AM IST. Occasionally, later hours may be required for meetings with teams in other parts of the world. Additionally, for the first 4-6 weeks of onboarding and training, US Eastern time hours (IST -9:30) may be required.

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance coverage is provided to our employees and their dependants, 100% covered by Comscore;
• Provident Fund is borne by Comscore, and is provided over and above the gross salary to employees;
• 26 Annual leave days per annum, divided into 8 Casual leave days and 18 Privilege leave days;
• Comscore also provides a paid “Recharge Week” over the Christmas and New Year period, so that you can start the new year fresh;
• In addition, you will be entitled to:
• 10 Public Holidays;
• 10 Sick leave days;
• 5 Paternity leave days;
• 1 Birthday leave day.
• Flexible work arrangements;
• “Summer Hours” are offered from March to May: Comscore offers employees the flexibility to work more hours from Monday to Thursday, and the hours can be offset on Friday from 2:00pm onwards;
• Employees are eligible to participate in Comscore’s Sodexo Meal scheme and enjoy tax benefits