Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities: 

• Work with the Product Owner, developers, and other team members to gain a comprehensive understanding of new and existing products and features, and design test suites to ensure full coverage of products and features.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests within an automated test framework. 
• Ensure automated tests are written according to best practices such that crucial functional requirements are verified and tests remain valid as code evolves.
• Advocate for approaches that drive quality and ensure testability.
• Stay current with emerging tools and technologies in AI and automation, and proactively integrate relevant advancements into testing practices.
• Participate in all facets of the software development test cycle:  Create test plans, develop, execute, and maintain test cases and scripts, manage the defect log, and track issue resolution with development staff.  
• Analyze all project documents from a QA testing perspective, verifying accuracy and completeness. Must fully understand the business need/problem and the functional/technical solutions identified.
• Perform Quality Assurance testing in an agile environment.   Participate in all sprint activities including, daily scrums, requirements gathering, story writing, and solution design sessions.  
• Ensure reusability of test cases/scripts by building a regression suite for future testing efforts.  Work with QA Team Lead to design and implement automated system tests using test automation tools.
• Coordinate and execute integrated tests in all applicable projects. Communicate with other QA teams to develop a cross-team test strategy. Understand the downstream integration of related data while incorporating that understanding into the everyday work of the team.
• Demonstrate excellent written communication skills (including emails, stories, defects, and presentations) appropriate for technical and business audiences.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Web Application Testing experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted test automation tools is a plus.
• Ability to write Azure SQL Database queries to analyze and manipulate data in cloud environment.
• Experience with one programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, and Perl, is desired. Experience with Python and JavaScript is a strong plus. 
• Basic knowledge of machine learning, NLP, and computer vision.
• Experience writing API or web service tests (not at the UI level).
• Experience with common test frameworks is desirable, with experience building internal tools and frameworks a strong plus.
• Technical and functional creativity to look beyond the application’s screen level capability to test thoroughly for a variety of use cases.
• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Strong collaboration skills and desire to work in a highly collaborative environment.
• Good judgment, strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, and a finely tuned balance of technical purity and pragmatism.
• Committed, engaged, self-motivated, decisive, adaptable, data-driven, transparent, and objective.
• AI and Azure technology certification is a plus.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.