Lead Test Automation Developer

Responsibilities

Develop and execute high quality, flexible and scalable test frameworks and tests in support of a variety of testing activities.

Work collaboratively with Development, QA, Product and vendor teams for new functional and performance test development in support of all project and application initiatives under Omni Channel.

Help in our continuous testing efforts by integrating automated tests into the CI/CD pipelines.

Monitor test execution(automated) and report quality.

Challenge the status quo every day and never stop improving test automation tools, coverage and quality.

Coordinate and manage/influence multiple vendors involved in delivery of our omni-channel capability.

Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Delivery leads to support testing of initiatives

Conduct interviews, evaluate candidates, and onboard new resources.

Develop continuous improvement plans for existing application changes to include test strategy, resource loading, and advancement of test automation.

Qualifications

7+ years of software development experience with at least 4+ years focused in automation and frameworks.

Passionate about software quality, test automation and continuous improvement.

Demonstrated proficiency in one or more programming languages like Python(mostly preferred), Ruby, Groovy etc.

Demonstrated proficiency with two or more open source test automation frameworks like Pytest, Cucumber, Rspec, Playwright/Protractor/Cypress, Spock, Rest Api clients etc.

Familiar with progressive test automation techniques like BDD (Behavior Driven Development), POM(page object model), OOP(object oriented programming), test containerization, test parallelization.

Proficient with version control systems like Git.

Proficient with source control management techniques including branching, commits, rebase, code review and merging etc.

Test Automation Experience In a Retail Environment (preferred).

Experience automating tests for various types of testing: UI, Integration, API, Database, Load, Soak, Performance etc.

Experience with automating Web applications, backend services, REST interfaces, third party integrations.

Familiar with at least one public cloud interface like AWS/GCP/Azure.

Required

Technology Snapshot:

Python, Pytest, Playwright

Rest/GraphQL API tests

Azure APIM / API Gateway

CI CD (Gitlab / Github)

Containerization experience and Orchestration knowledge, Docker / Kubernetes etc

Nice To Have

Datadog APM

Kuberenetes

Prometheus / Grafana monitoring

Azure APIM GraphQL Gateway

Azure Functions / AWS Lambda

Azure Containers / AWS ECS

Azure AKS / AWS EKS

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent Software Engineering experience.

3rd party digital e-commerce platform experience such as IBM Sterling OMS, Radial OMS, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC). Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available mission-critical service.

Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies. Application performance analysis and monitoring.

Related software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Datadog, Artifactory, Npm, Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube. Strong technical project management and documentation skills.