Automation Engineer, Officer

Overview

Work as a senior member of the automation center of excellence team to execute the overall quality plan for Charles River's products, building the next generation of the software test automation framework and infrastructure within the Quality Assurance Infrastructure team.

What you'll do

• Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to carry out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team.
• Expand the test automation framework capabilities needed to comprehensively test business requirements for all products and services.
• Create pipelines to execute automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests.
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices and comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices.
• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in the issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team's QA methodology, and innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to test automation, including use of Artificial Intelligence.
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Participate in "testathon" activities as required by releases.
• Guide and mentor junior staff in best practices and proper creation of automated test scripts.

What you'll need

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other technical course of study, or Business with an MIS background.
• 10-12 years of experience in building test automation frameworks in an enterprise world and in a process-driven technology environment.
• Demonstrated experience programming with Java, SQL and shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans.
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology.
• Effective written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• MS degree.
• Financial services industry experience.
• Demonstrated experience implementing automation frameworks with industry standard tools such as Rest Assured, Playwright, Azure SDK, Kafka SDK, Cosmos DB, Swagger, Silk4Net, FlaUI, Talend.
• Experience creating and updating on-demand pipelines with tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD.
• Knowledge of one or more CRD functional areas.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.