Automation Lead

Job description:

Client News Quality Engineering CoE team is looking for a quality champion and expert on test tools, test process with solid understanding of news media & mobile apps technology. In this role, you will mentor & coach quality engineers, hold technical training sessions; This role will have an opportunity to lead performance and security testing of various digital applications across different platforms for various client’s News brands.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical expertise within quality engineering organization
• Define & incorporate best practices of the security testing and performance engineering
• Develop automation roadmap across agile teams
• Automation framework design and implementation
• Analyze and improve the existing frameworks and recommend right tools and frameworks
• Test automation and optimization solution aims at disrupting inefficient and old-world QA procedures by providing tools, solutions and frameworks that works across domains
• Enable agile teams to perform continuous testing, work to measure and improve any inefficiency in CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate performance & security with automation framework
• Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
• Help hire/build strong quality engineering teams
• Mentoring and training quality engineers & leads
• Building key test infrastructure that allows them to capture data, analyze it and provide guidance to their teams around perceived risks and a mitigation strategy
• Provide inputs to define quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards
• Define/improve quality & performance engineering process, KPIs & metrics
• Conduct reviews and ensure process compliance
• Publish quality & performance engineering KPIs & metrics
• Partner with engineering teams to propose, rollout process improvements, new technologies and automation practices
• Work both independently and in close collaboration with platform & application teams and across the business to drive automation & bring efficiencies
• Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, as required

Requirements

• B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
• 5+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE testing on various platforms
• 3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE automation
• 3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering – Performance testing
• 2+ yrs. of experience in software engineering – Security testing
• Must be proficient in Java
• Must have experience implementing automation frameworks – (Selenium WebDriver/webDriver IO/Appium/TestNG/Junit)
• Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics(Jmeter/K6/Speedcurve)
• Must have experience implementing API frameworks – Rest Assured Framework/Pactumjs)
• Must have experience setting up and managing test automation infrastructure (Appium/Selenium grid)
• Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic/Datadog), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
• Any certification related to QE/Process/Automation/Performance Test/Security
• Nice to have knowledge/experience on NodeJS/JavaScript/TypeScript.