Senior Test Automation Engineer

Surge IT; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge IT is seeking a senior test automation engineer to lead a team of automation professionals in developing and testing advanced software applications. The role requires independent work with analysts and developers to review requirements and design, and to drive the automation strategy and reporting for releases.

Responsibilities include crafting automated and performance tests using Selenium, Rational tools, and related frameworks, overseeing test plans, and delivering clear test summaries

Qualifications

• At least 5–7 years of IT experience with testing discipline.
• Extensive manual functional, regression, usability, and accessibility testing experience.
• Proven automation and performance testing experience and framework development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of test automation engineers and define testing strategy.
• Develop and manage the automation framework and test plans.
• Estimate efforts, script test cases, and perform peer reviews.
• Prepare test summary reports for releases and communicate results to clients.
• Coordinate with DevOps, BA, and developers; support UAT and defect triage.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation testing

Performance testing

Automation framework development

Web services testing

SQL / backend testing

Leadership

Agile / Jira

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Zephyr Scale

Selenium

Rational tools

Performance Tester

Functional Tester

Lighthouse

Job description

Seeking a senior test automation engineer to join a team of experienced professionals in the development and testing of advanced software applications.

Position Description

The candidate must be self-driven, with the ability to work independently not only test engineers and DevOps teams but with business analysts and developers to review software design and requirements documentation to understand the application functionality. The position requires candidate to lead a team of test automation engineers, lead the test automation strategy, manage the automation framework, perform/oversee level of effort estimates, test plans, test case scripting, peer reviews, and test summary reports to ensure a successfully tested release. In addition to manual/ functional testing, the candidate will also need to create automated test and performance test scripts using Selenium or Rational tools, Performance and Functional Tester. The individual will test key functionality, setup and verify data, and report test results to the manager. Individual will be responsible for interacting with clients on a daily basis during testing phases to ensure that release testing defects are communicated to the client and/or support UAT.

Required Skills:

Minimum 5-7 years of professional IT experience. Including:

• Functional: more than 5 years of solid experience with manual functional, regression, usability, integration, remote access, and accessibility testing
• Automation and/or Performance: o more than 45 years of experience with developing scripts from scratch with programming code. For example, Java, java script, python, etc.
• experience developing an automation framework from scratch
• Web services testing: 3 years of experience developing scripts using web services tool
• Database: Serves as SME in SQL, DB, backend testing
• Develop LOE for own work and others
• Author test plans and reports
• Experience testing in an Agile development environment using tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr Scale to develop/execute functional and regression test scripts, Requirements Traceability, and manage defects
• Experience with Section 508 testing using tools such as JAWS, SortSite, Dragon, WAVE, or Lighthouse
• Leadership experience: leads, delegates, and mentors’ others

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with a client during User Acceptance Test sessions
• Experience developing level of effort estimates, test plans, test case scripting and test summary reports
• Experience with developing testing schedules
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
• Possession of excellent multitasking and organizational skills