Sr. QA Automation Engineer Location: Las Vegas , NV

Sr. QA Automation Engineer
Location: Las Vegas , NV (Day-1 Onsite)

Role Overview:

This position emphasizes a QA/Dev skill set, automating tests and limited manual execution to create the testing strategy for a given software release. The ideal candidate will develop a working understanding of the interfacing applications, test environments, the testing services tools, and methodologies. During the test lifecycle, this person will develop the test case execution plan, oversee test runs, manage issues, report metrics and create / maintain automation scripts. Acting as a liaison between the Line of Business testing resources and the development team, investigating, monitoring, and reporting issues. Overtime required on an as needed basis and day-to-day responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain test plans; develop manual and automated test cases and associated for application projects.
• Perform assigned testing as per the Test Plan; document and report all discovered problems.
• Execute regression tests for revised applications.
• Maintain records of all application testing; prepare reports summarizing testing results.
• Collaborate with developers and users to optimize testing, defect isolation, and defect tracking.
• Ability to formulate a test strategy based on technical specification documents and business requirements.
• Ability to communicate to a diverse group of IT management and business users required.
• Candidate must have strong analytical and problem management skills to be able to resolve issues as they arise in the testing environments.
• Candidate must be able to multi-task across a wide range of test environments and projects.
• Prior experience participating in large, complex technology projects required.

Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably computer related.
• 10-12+ years' experience as a software tester with emphasis on writing test plans, manual and automated testing experience required.
• 8+ years' first hand experience with test automation suites.
• 7 years of experience with web-enabling technologies, including web enterprise servers, web programming languages, SQL databases and exposure to client/server development required.
• 5-6 years of prior testing experience or banking experience in one or more of the following delivery channels - Retail Banking, Telephone Call Center, or Credit Card Services.
• Experience with end-to-end software system testing required.
• Availability to work various shifts, extended hours and to provide on-call support as required.
• Experience with application development and QA automation using Python, Visual Studio Code, Robot Framework Language Server (VS Cod extension) and GIT
• Experience with defect tracker such as Jira Align
• Experience with source code control such as GitLab