QA Lead Automation Engineer (SDET)

Description

Role type: Lead QA Automation EngineerLocation: Hyderabad, IndiaResponsibilities & day-to-day activities:

• Architect automation solutions for customers to solve their needs
• Team up with an Applause Project Manager to leverage a team of SDETs to build, deploy, and maintain web and mobile web automated tests
• Manage CI infrastructure to execute and debug tests
• Automate test cases using our Java-based Core Automation Framework
• Design, develop and extend our internal automation tools & libraries
• Perform root cause analysis for issues uncovered by test results
• Perform peer code reviews of automated tests
• Provide technical feedback to product management and development

Required Skills and Experience:

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related field
• Hands-on experience with Appium for automating web, native, hybrid apps on iOS & Android as well as Selenium for automating browser-based apps
• 3+ years of experience in software quality assurance, manual testing or a development role
• 3+ years of experience in using core Java for automation scripting
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Experience with continuous integration systems
• Responsible, team-oriented, self-starter, proactive with excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience with an IDE (e.g. Eclipse, IDEA)
• Experience automating Web Service/API testing
• Experience with an Agile/SCRUM development methodology
• Experience automating iOS and Android applications
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery/Deployment processes