Lead Automation- QA

Quality Assurance New Jersey, New Jersey


Description

Position at Ness USA, Inc.

Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company’s future with cloud and data. For more information, visit www.ness.com 
  
We are problem-solvers, architects, strategists, implementors, and lifelong learners. We collaborate with each other and with our clients to help them meet their short- and long-term technology goals. Our culture is open, transparent, challenging, and fun. 
  
We hire smart, self-starters who thrive in an open-ended environment to figure out what needs to be done and take ownership in delivering quality results 
Lead Automation- QA (Tosca)
What You’ll Do
  • Design and develop automation solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable, and maintainable automated regression suites & test harnesses.
  • Create tools and frameworks with quality code to simplify testing scenarios.
  • Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases, and analyze and report test results to the teams.
  • Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria.
  • Acts as a test lead, planning the work of other testing staff and assigning tasks to meet project deadlines.
  • Mentor/upskill junior team members and provide guidance on best practices in test automation.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality.
  • Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in test automation.
  • Uses strong testing skills to provide guidance and assist project staff.
  • Reviews and approves the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results and defect descriptions. Ensures best practices are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
  • Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database testing requirements.
  • Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment.
  • Involved in requirements review and participate in architecture/design reviews with an emphasis on test automation/performance strategy and ensuring best practices.
  • Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities.
  • Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions.
  • Estimate and perform risk analysis for quality delivery.
  • Agile evangelist
 
What We’re Looking For
  • 2 - 8 years of strong hands-on coding/scripting experience in automation testing & engineering. 
  • Excellent understanding of QA and testing methodologies, best practices
  • Excellent hands-on in programming languages such as Python (preferred), Java or JavaScript.
  • Experience in creating, maintaining, and executing automation tests utilizing tools such as Tricentis Tosca, Selenium required (Python preferred)
  • Excellent logical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • 2 - 8 Years of experience in Agile processes (Scrum preferred)
  • Experience in CI/CD/CT tools such as Azure DevOps (preferred), Jenkins
  • Experience in Accessibility, Visual and Cross Browser/Device testing.
  • Experience of working with Rest and SOAP services and understanding of SOA architecture
  • Experience in creating and maintaining test automation framework is mandatory.
  • Experience using SQL to query databases required.
  • Exposure to distributed source control systems such as Git
  • Experience with test data management techniques.
  • Experience with change management and defect tracking tools.
  • Zeal to be domain expert and learn new technologies.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and written communications
  • High standards of confidentiality; ability to handle sensitive information with integrity and trust.
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Azure and experience of testing micro-services, containers, Dockers, and Kubernetes is preferred.
  • Should be a self-motivated, result-oriented, and excellent team player. 
  • Should be able to work under a competitive time frame and deliver. 
  • Should be a very fast learner and have the excellent problem-solving ability. 
 
Minimum and Preferred Education
  • Bachelor's or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent is preferred.
 
 
Why Ness 
  
We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world. 
  
You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression. At Ness, we treat our values of rigor, innovation, and partnership with the highest priority, and they are placed at the very core of our business — to guide us through our daily operations and interactions with our customers. 
  
We offer our employees exciting and challenging projects across a diverse range of industries, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with a group of forward-thinking, capable partners around the globe. 
  
Discover Ness Digital Engineering by visiting our website www.ness.com 
  
  
Do you feel like not checking every single requirement? 
  
At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity. Also, we are aware of the studies that have shown that women/people of color/introverts are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. 
 
So, if this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills. 
 
Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.