Senior QA Automation Engineer

About Project:

Our client is a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.

Required skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance.
• Experience executing automated and manual test plans and test scripts/cases, as well as reporting and tracking defects while performing Regression, Integration, Black Box and User Acceptance Tests (UAT) for Web (N-Tier) and Client/Server applications.
• Knowledge and relevant experience working with relational and no-sql databases. Should be able to understand data models, query & analyze data using traditional as well as modern data processing techniques (Ex. Sql, Python, Shell, NoteBooks etc).
• Experience working with different ETL and data services that constitute the data pipelines. 
• Experience using Cypress, Selenium, Qtest, JIRA, BrowserStack, ObservePoint, Robot Framework and Adobe Analytics.
• Experience analyzing code diffs, data models, and understanding enterprise architecture.
• Knowledge of RESTful API's and how to build data driven automated testing.
• Developing and utilizing open source tools to ensure site performance and stability through automation.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, and Virtual DOM inspection browser extensions.
• Experience in writing automation tests in one or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, Python strongly preferred.
• Valid US Visa.
  

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze business requirements, functional and design specifications and story acceptance criteria for clarity and consistencies.
• Develop and document detailed test cases for functional and regression testing against applications that span across various endpoints and environments.
• Create and execute formal test plans to ensure validated deliverables meet business requirements, functional and design specifications, and story acceptance criteria.
• Conduct Quality Assurance testing from development to product release.
• Integrate changes to the automation scripts when there are functional or UI changes.
• Execute browser compatibility tests across Windows and Mac operating systems, and on various endpoints, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones using Browserstack.
• Identify, reproduce, and report defects in the defect tracking system.
• Participate in all meetings, including the daily scrum, sprint planning, review and retrospective, and actively engage in all team activities.
• Recommend process improvements to Quality Assurance team.
• Provide status updates to Manager.

We offer:

• Business trip to our client's office (which is located in Yonkers, New York) for 6 months long.
• Ability to collaborate with other team members in a global team environment.
• Possibility of remote work.
• Competitive salary.
• Collaborative friendly team environment.
• Free treats: tea, coffee, cookies, English classes, corporate parties, competitions.