Lead Software Test Automation Engineer @ Wolters Kluwer

Key areas of responsibilities :

Development and enhancement of automation frameworks:

• Test automation framework requirements analysis, design and implementation
• Automation development and maintenance
• Automation strategy & planning
• Automation Code reviews
• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines

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

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
• Software regression analysis and test planning
• Root cause analysis and planning/executing corrective and preventive actions
• Participation in Agile process
• Understand business and quality priorities
• Devise a QA process suitable to overcome the quality challenges and achieve objectives
• Being a custodian of quality and should take hard decisions beneficial for the business/quality
• Driving a team of automation test engineers from strategy and delivery perspective

Knowledge, skills and experience :

• Minimum Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent from an accredited university
• Overall experience: 8-12 years
• QA experience: 8+ years
• Experienced in test management, strategizing, planning & execution [ Strategizing scope of testing suites for Smoke, regression, Integration and ensure optimal coverage of testing for release]
• Strong experience in test automation delivery and demonstrating benefits
• Very good and practical OOPS knowledge and experience
• Hands-on experience in designing, writing and maintaining automation test framework
• Hands-on experience in developing automation at
  • Service level
  • API Automation
  • UI Level
• Technology: .NET (API testing, C#)
• Tools: Jenkins, Selenium Web driver, Test management tools like Microsoft test manager, Agile tools like Jira, Rally, Code repository/version control tools like Subversion, Git, GitFlow
• Experience in setting Continuous Integration and Continuous testing
• Database: SQL query building & execution, knowledge of stored procedures desirable
• Other competencies-
  • Team and Stakeholder management skills
  • Strong analytical, reasoning and problem-solving skills