Senior SDET Lead — Automation Architect & QA Strategy

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC); Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 2 days remote

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Technology stipend for remote access

Generous PTO and parental leave

401k employer match

Competitive health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a senior QA Automation Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of automation frameworks and tools. You will evaluate test cases for regression, automate newly implemented functionality, and drive acceptance test efficiency through robust tooling.

You will collaborate with software developers, project management, and customer support to ensure quality standards are met, and you will contribute to performance and scalability

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of seven to ten years’ experience with manual and automation technologies as an expert, with a clear understanding of core practices, processes, and terminology.
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks to simulate complex multi-system scenarios.
• Strong testing experience including developing test plans, automating test cases, and working with test frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain new and existing automation frameworks, evaluate test cases for inclusion in test regression, test coverage and automation of newly implemented functionality, and develop tools to enable acceptance test efficiency.
• Work closely with Software Developers, Project Management and Customer Support to form and follow quality procedures, standards and specifications ensuring they are met and deliver the highest quality projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Create, maintain and execute automation test plans, write code against software platforms, estimate testing efforts, analyze and communicate test results, defect tracking and participation in day-to-day test activities, and contribute to performance and scalability testing.
• Collaborate with others to deliver complex projects and contribute to long-term vision and strategy for improved quality via automation first approach.
• Develop, enhance, and extend automation frameworks; identify quality tasks during sprint and implement automation for new features.
• Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking; assist in planning and control of test environments and data.
• Define test strategy, conduct requirements analysis for testability, identify scope, conduct risk and mitigation planning, configuration management planning, write master and detailed test plans.
• Participate in review of test procedures and processes and propose improvements to eliminate redundancies and improve efficiency.
• Create robust automation to download files, compare data between heterogeneous systems and generate reports.
• Develop and automate UI screens using Selenium Protractor Cucumber framework with Typescript/JavaScript; create feature files using Gherkin.

Skills

Automation frameworks

Agile environment

Automation test coding

Unit/Functional/Integration testing

Web/Mobile app testing

SDLC understanding

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Selenium

Protractor

Cucumber

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a senior QA Automation Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of automation frameworks and tools. You will evaluate test cases for regression, automate newly implemented functionality, and drive acceptance test efficiency through robust tooling.

You will collaborate with software developers, project management, and customer support to ensure quality standards are met, and you will contribute to performance and scalability