Staff Engineer - QA Automation

• Implementation and maintenance of Automated Test Infrastructure and Test Suites.
• Align automation with the speed of development.
• Make informed decisions on what, how, and when to automate vs manually test.
• Identify test conditions, both positive and negative, from User Stories, Product Backlog Items, and other requirements documents.
• Execute test cases, document results, update progress and track bugs.
• Use both manual and automation testing techniques to identify, track and report existing bugs as well as potential areas of risk in our software.
• Design and execute non-functional testing (e.g., performance, security and accessibility) by using standard testing techniques.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives, and other meetings as needed.
• Operate in an agile development team and participate in the design, development, testing, and debugging of applications.
• Lead reviews of other QA work items, assist in estimating the work and propose testing solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of commercial software testing experience, including experience in automating test cases for web applications.
• 3+ years experience with testing REST APIs (Postman, Curl).
• 3+ years coding experience in C# and SQL.
• Experience with performance and load testing.
• Solid foundation of QA methodologies, testing techniques and software development process in an agile environment.
• Solid understanding of the Agile SDLC.
• Experience using TFS, JIRA, GIT, Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.
• Experience using Selenium WebDriver.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Experience working in a small-team environment.
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS) is a plus.
• Experience in financial domain is a plus.