QA Automation Engineer

Duration: 6 Months

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will specialize in developing test strategies and designing, automating, executing, and maintaining test plans, test cases, and test environments of a cloud-based networking service platform. You will help ensure the highest quality and a successful rollout of the platform that is impacting millions of customers.

Responsibilities

1. Design and develop test automation and tools, with a focus on maintainability at a large scale.
2. Analyze requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing test systems.
3. Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts for platform testing (e.g., using Python, bash shell, Java).
4. Write test cases and detail test scenarios, ensuring their completeness, automation, and execution.
5. Lead in the identification and resolution of problems and defects, and help drive to resolution.
6. Comfortable with collaboration, open communication, and reaching across dev, QA, ops, and other cross-functional teams.
7. Integrate test automation with build systems, test case management, and bug tracking tools.

1. 5+ years of proven track record testing Internet or cloud-based services and platforms in a mid to larger Linux environment.
2. 3+ years of outstanding proven record in hands-on developing highly technical test automation frameworks from the ground up, including API, UI, and Unit test automation.
3. Strong grasp and practical experience with automation of at least one cloud platform (e.g., VMWare, OpenStack, Cloudstack) and at least one automation framework (e.g., Puppet, Chef, CFEngine).
4. Passionate and knowledgeable of QA processes and methodology, with the ability to create and execute detailed test plans and test cases, perform root cause analysis to identify problems in design and/or implementation.
5. Deep understanding of web and networking technologies on server and client side, strong with at least one scripting and/or high-level language: Python (preferred), Java, Shell, Perl, Golang.
6. Familiarity with REST/SOAP/JSON APIs.
7. Solid working knowledge of NoSQL and MySQL databases, Cassandra preferred.
8. System and application performance and load testing knowledge is a plus.