Senior QA Automation Engineer

Gumlet; Singapore; Remote; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company seeks a talented QA Automation Engineer to enhance their automated testing capabilities. You will work collaboratively in a cross-functional scrum team, writing test scripts, developing tools, and guiding team members. With your extensive experience and skills in test automation, Selenium, and Java, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining high quality standards in their software development process. Opportunities exist for applying innovative testing strategies and improving overall methodologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in test automation.
• Strong understanding of BDD and TDD principles.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Write test automation scripts for back-end and front-end components.
• Collaborate with the development team to analyze bugs.
• Provide technical guidance to team members on test automation.

Skills

Test Automation

Selenium WebDriver

API Testing

Java

Continuous Integration/Delivery

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

TestNG

JUnit

Maven

Git

Job description

Responsibilities:

• You write test automation scripts, involving both back-end and front-end components according to our best practices and quality standards.
• You build tools, frameworks, and other infrastructure needed to support test automation.
• You review and validate application requirements and technical specifications to define test specifications for functional, integration, and performance tests.
• You search for opportunities to enhance all test case automation-related activities.
• You work as part of a cross-functional scrum team (POD), developing applications and services using agile development methodologies.
• You will provide technical guidance to other members of the team on test automation as required.
• You collaborate with the development team to analyze the bugs and work closely to address production bugs at the earliest.
• You stay up to date with new testing tools and testing strategies, proactively evaluating and improving our testing methodologies for continuous improvement.
• Should work collaboratively with the team in writing test scenarios and their execution (in case the need arises).

Requirements:

• You are an outstanding QA automation engineer with +5 years of relevant experience in test automation and our test automation stack.
• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science.
• You have a strong understanding of software development and test automation principles, such as BDD and TDD. You have experience in working in continuous integration and continuous delivery environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Good communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to coach other engineers.
• Experience in developing software in a regulated environment is a plus.

UI Automation with Selenium:

• Proficient in Selenium WebDriver for automating web-based applications.
• Strong knowledge of locators and strategies (XPath, CSS Selectors, ID, Class).
• Experience in handling dynamic web elements and writing optimized XPath/CSS selectors.
• Familiarity with browser debugging tools and techniques for identifying UI elements.
• Expertise in handling synchronization issues using waits (Implicit, Explicit, Fluent).
• Capability to manage browser settings and profiles for different testing needs.

API Automation with RestAssured:

• Proficient in automating REST APIs using the RestAssured library.
• Strong understanding of HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. ).
• Familiarity with handling request/response payloads in JSON and XML formats.
• Ability to validate response codes, headers, and payloads.
• Knowledge of token-based authentication mechanisms (e. g., OAuth, JWT).
• Experience in chaining API requests and validating dependencies between API responses.

Programming with Java:

• Strong proficiency in Java for scripting and automation.
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts.
• Experience with exception handling, collections framework, and Java Streams API.
• Familiarity with file handling, parsing JSON/XML, and reading/writing to databases.
• Understanding of multithreading for handling parallel execution.

Functional Testing:

• Ability to design and execute comprehensive test cases for functional verification.
• Experience with both manual and automated regression testing.
• Knowledge of boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, and other testing techniques.

Frameworks and Tools:

• Strong knowledge of testing frameworks like TestNG and JUnit.
• Familiarity with BDD frameworks like Cucumber for writing Gherkin scenarios.
• Experience in building and maintaining custom automation frameworks (Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, or Hybrid).
• Proficient in building tools like Maven or Gradle for dependency management.
• Working knowledge of version control systems like Git.

CI/CD and Integration:

• Experience in integrating test automation with CI/CD pipelines (e. g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI).
• Ability to set up and configure jobs for running automated tests.
• Familiarity with generating and publishing test execution reports (e. g., Allure, Extent Reports).