Sr. Automation Tester

Sligo Software Solutions; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sligo Software Solutions in New York seeks a seasoned Tester to lead QA efforts for the NYSE-CON project. The role focuses on quality assurance testing, supporting user acceptance testing, and ensuring requirements are met across all development stages.

You will create and execute test scripts, collaborate with stakeholders to elicit requirements, and document results to enable informed decision-making by Program staff.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of QA experience and proven ability to manual and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute test scripts, scenarios and plans to validate solutions against business requirements.
• Liaise with stakeholders to elicit, communicate and validate requirements for NYSE-CON initiatives.
• Document test results across environments and report defects and quality metrics.
• Participate in planning with technical teams to ensure designs meet requirements.
• Perform test readiness, planning, design, execution, verification and validation tasks.

Skills

QA experience

Automation frameworks

Test planning

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Jira

HP ALM

Selenium

Cucumber

Playwright

Cypress

HP UFT

Postman

REST Assured

Job description

Description

This Tester position will be responsible for quality assurance testing, and support of user acceptance testing efforts, for the NYSE-CON project.

Duties

• Work as a liaison with stakeholders to elicit, communicate and validate the requirements for new initiatives or changes to current NYSE-CON functionality as determined by stakeholders.
• Conduct analysis of business and user needs and develop business requirements documents in accordance with requirements and protocols that govern NYSE-CON development and implementation.
• Create business documentation (Business Requirement documents, use cases, swim lanes, process documentation) that detail the NYSE-CON application functionality.
• Participate in team planning sessions with technical resources to ensure that solution designs fulfill documented requirements as stipulated by Program staff.
• Create and execute test scripts, scenarios, and test plans to validate technical solutions against documented business requirements.
• Execute and formally document test results, through all test environments, in a format that accurately reports the results for Program's understanding and support of test acceptance.

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience (14+ Years)
• Conducts automated and manual tests to ensure that the software created/upgraded performs as necessary and meets the user requirements. Develops and maintains user and technical documentation and project process documentation for application teams. Understands the view of applications and/or technology and is able to put procedures in a logical sequence.

Requirements

• This is an 100% Onsite.
• 84 Months of experience in performing quality assurance tasks. (Included but not limited to: Test Readiness Review, Test Planning and Design, Test Execution, Verification and Validation, Defect Management, Performance and Usability Testing, Regression Testing, Test Reporting, etc.)
• 84 Months of experience in the development and execution of software test plans and scenarios.
• 84 Months of experience in functional testing using functional testing tools such as Jira and HP ALM.
• 84 Months of experience designing a test automation framework for a complex, multi-platform application using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright, Cypress, or HP UFT for user-interface testing.
• 48 Months of experience testing backend services and APIs using tools like Postman, REST Assured, or specialized script libraries.
• 48 Months of experience using Python, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, or C# to write and maintain test scripts.
• 48 Months of experience in creating user test scripts and managing user acceptance testing.
• 12 Months experience using Redmine.
• R sum
• Copy of Candidate Identification (i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications (i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)