Sr Automation Tester - Iowa City, United States - Saxon Global

Description

Project Scope/Brief Description:

Provide test automation and quality assurance testing support (including manual testing as needed) for a highly-productive agile development team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, document, develop and execute automation test scripts to test team's application
• Applying automated tools to support the testing of team's applications across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Collaborate closely across agile teams driving efficiency in the QA process
• Engage with other testers to help build and maintain test automation frameworks and shared solutions
• Mentor and promote automation and testing competencies in other test engineers and test analysts

Skills/Experience:

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in software development and testing experience covering all test types
• 4+ years of experience in automation testing with web applications
• 4+ years of experience in system integration, functional regression, load and performance testing
• Excellent analytical skills, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Experience validating and verifying that software applications meet stakeholder requirements
• Experience in data extract and file comparisons
• Working knowledge of C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript programming language
• Working knowledge of SQL (MS SQL Server or other relational systems)
• Ability to work with test analysts to support the department Quality Assurance Team initiatives
• Experience with agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• Possess excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Possess technical support capabilities for test automation tools and environments
• Ability to work with test analysts to support and share quality automation initiatives
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps and Confluence
• Experience in creation and execution of SQL scripts using MS SQL Server and PL/SQL developer to validate backend data
• Familiar with qTest, MTM or similar test management tools
• Experience with test automation tools such as Test-Complete, Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress, and JMeter
• Working knowledge of API testing techniques and familiarity with tools, such as Postman and Jmeter
• Experience in the Agriculture industry with knowledge of plant breeding operations and data management

Required Skills : Experience in data extract and file comparisons Working knowledge of C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript programming language Working knowledge of SQL (MS SQL Server or other relational systems) Ability to work with test analysts to support the department Quality Assurance Team initiatives
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set :Yes
Type of project :Testing
Master Job Title :QA/SW Tester
Branch Code :Des Moines