QA Automation Engineer

JOB REQUISITION

QA Automation Engineer (Contract Talent)

LOCATION

SAN RAMON

Robert Half is seeking a QA Automation Engineer III to join our Quality Engineering team. This person will help build and maintain a unified test automation infrastructure to ensure efficient end-to-end, component, integration, and unit test coverage for various RHI and Protiviti software products. We’re looking for a self-motivated professional who demonstrates the ability to quickly grasp new technologies, products, and use cases.

As a Test Automation Engineer III, your specific responsibilities will include:

- Be able to understand business process and system requirements to develop relevant automated test scenarios.
- Prepare test data and scripts, working with functional and technical groups as needed.
- Develop configurable test scripts with high re-usability, that results in a suite of automated test cases or performance test scripts.
- Follow best practices associated with code management and documentation.
- Develop accurate test scenarios based on non-functional requirements.
Be able to execute testware and document identified defects. Identify and document defect root cause.
- Be able to configure and troubleshoot testware errors/warnings to ensure accurate results are obtained.
- Document test summary report of results and be able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide code and automation recommendations that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the automation suite.
- Develop a test approach to ensure a common framework and identify issues for test planning and execution.
- Be able to understand project expectations and manage to deadlines.
- Be able to provide accurate effort estimates for automation efforts.
- Identify risks or challenges associated with testing effort.
- Be able to delineate team tasks as associated with overall testing effort and understand dependencies/entry criteria to start test case design.
Work with the engineering leads/business analysts to understand project architecture, business requirements, and nonfunctional requirements to devise test automation or performance test strategy.
- Collaborate with the engineering lead/business analysts to identify and define test scenarios and cases for test automation.
- Facilitate the gathering and documenting of automation test objectives and requirements for input into the automation test plan.
- Confirm problems and document as defects in QA problem tracking tool.
- Raise issues impacting quality, deadlines or productivity to QS leadership as appropriate.
- Provide weekly status on test progress against work plan, including risks and issues.
- Collaborate with the Test lead to incorporate best practices associated with tools and test methodology.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
5+ years’ of experience in Automation frameworks such as TestNG, Selenium ,JUnit
- Strong knowledge of software development technologies including Java, Python, ASP.Net/C#, ASP/VBScript, XML and SQL.
- Experience with Robot Framework is a plus
- Responsible for scheduling daily jobs via Jenkins and perform log validation
- Experience with code inspections, technical reviews, and design reviews.
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a team or a technical lead.
- Proven experience in all aspects of functional, integration, and regression testing
- 5+ years’ of experience with system performance testing.
- 5+ years’ of LoadRunner, Jmeter or similar tool is a plus.
Software test planning, execution and validation.
- Planning, configuration and execution of test automation scenarios.
- Analysis report configuration and generation.
- Experienced in defining, configuring and executing test sets from Quality Center.
Capable of balancing multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical and problem solving ability.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Excellent planning, organizing and follow-up skills.
- High integrity and a desire to work within a team environment.


Robert Half International Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

As part of Robert Half’s Corporate Services facility employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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