The Senior QA Automation Engineer designs and executes tests, automates processes, manages CI/CD pipelines, collaborates with teams, and resolves testing issues while ensuring best practices are followed.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and comprehend requirements, create manual and automated tests, and maintain them. Execute regression test suites, analyze the test failures, and report defects.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes as much as possible to make release processes more efficient. Also, integrate all the touch points in the QA process, like integrating automated test results with test specs and generating reports.
- Work in an agile model. Analyze, troubleshoot and fix failures and issues in "build - test - deploy" CI/CD pipelines
- Follow best practices in areas like security, performance and cost efficiency when working on developing the workflows
- Communicate and collaborate with a co-located and distributed team of architects, developers, QA engineers to resolve issues, and provide clear status updates
- Escalate issues in time and able to follow up for their status
- Works independently with minimal or no supervision, is proactive and takes ownership of the testing area
- Ability to think out of the box
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- Detailed Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, K8S, dockers, containers etc.
- Experience with technologies like REST APIs, Web services, NodeJS, Docker.
- Experience using CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, TeamCity.
- Experience working on UNIX & MAC systems
- Experience in using GIT repo, JIRA
- Experience in Web UI and API automation (coding, scripting, etc.) and proficiency with at least one automation language, tool, or technology like Protractor, Playwright, Python etc
- Technical expertise in Go, Yaml and Json.
- Technical expertise in Helm.
- Knowledge of at least one RDBMS database like Oracle, Postgresql, MS SQL Server, etc.
About Encora
Encora is a global company that offers Software and Digital Engineering solutions. Our practices include Cloud Services, Product Engineering & Application Modernization, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience & Design Services, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Quality Engineering, AI & LLM Engineering, among others.
At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.
Encora Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
No. 11, Doxa Business Center, Rattha Tek Tower, MR Road Thoraipakkam , Chennai, India, 600097
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