Sr Automation Test Engineer

Primary Talent Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 89,544 - 103,320; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm has an opening for a Sr Automation Test Engineer in San Francisco, CA. This is a 12-month contract role with a focus on test automation for financial services applications. Candidates should have over 5 years of testing experience and strong skills in automation frameworks like Selenium and Cucumber. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required. This position requires a combination of onsite and remote work, ensuring a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software testing with strong hands-on test automation skills.
• Proven experience developing automated test systems and scripts.
• Experience leading small teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional and non-functional test plans.
• Automate test scripts for end-to-end testing.
• Manage application deployments by monitoring git pipelines.

Skills

Test automation frameworks like Selenium, Cucumber, RESTAssure

Java/Python

Cloud hosted applications testing

Hands-on test automation skills

SR testing experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JIRA

Git

Job description

Sr Automation Test Engineer

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Sr Automation Test Engineer to join a financial services company in San Francisco, CA. This is a 12-month contract to start with the potential for extensions.

Pay: $65.00 - $75.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Schedule: Hybrid

Description

Responsibilities

Functional testing

• Test planning (functional and integration testing, test data generation etc.)
• Coordinate with other testers, developers, product owners to deliver optimal test coverage
• Follow testing best practices for creating test artifacts in JIRA.
• Strong triaging skills with ability to look into logs, DB, file storage etc
• Note: current application triaging is done using cloud watch logs, data stored in dynamo db and S3 buckets etc.

Non-functional testing

• Coordinate with the load test team and track the progress

Test automation

• Expert in test automation frameworks like Selenium, Cucumber, RESTAssure for covering end to end test automation
• Good knowledge of Java/Python
• Experience in AI usage with test automation is preferred.
• It can be Playwright with AI or other use cases.
• Maintain a healthy coverage of functional testing through test automation.
• Ensure regular and successful execution of different test scripts (smoke/regression etc.)

Regression

• maintain healthy regression testing coverage through test automation
• Managing test data
• Procure/create test data that is needed for all types of testing (functional / non-functional) for adequate test coverage
• Maintain test data repository with ready to use test data

Test environment maintenance

• Manage application deployments required by testers by monitoring git pipelines
• Manage dependencies / integrations with other applications as needed

Qualifications

• Onsite/Hybrid/Remote-Hybrid out of SF-2-3 days per week onsite.
• Industry experience: 5+ years in software testing with strong hands-on test automation skills
• Experience with testing cloud hosted applications (AWS preferred)
• hands on test automation skills
• SR testing experience, able to handle functional/performance testing
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field or equivalent work experience
• Typically requires 5+ years of related information technology work experience and 3+ years of development or test automation experience
• Requires proven experience developing automated test systems and scripts
• Requires knowledge of multiple software development methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and Behavior-driven development
• Requires working experience with Integration, stress, performance, scalability, and/or load testing
• Desirable: multiple software testing assurance certifications from an accredited institution (i.e. AS2, QAI, ISTQB, etc.)
• Experience leading small teams

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affidative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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