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Senior Software Engineer - QA Automation - Chennai

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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Design, build, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks; define test and automation strategies; integrate automated builds, deployments, and CI/CD (Maven/Ant, Jenkins, Stash); work on API and framework development; collaborate across teams, coach peers, and propose tooling and best practices. AWS and developer experience (Java/Spring) are advantageous.
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The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical

  • Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing automated test scripts 

experience with Selenium, Fitnesse and Java

  • Ability to define and build Test/Automation strategies/Plans
  • Able to build and contribute at framework level
  • Experience with automated application build, deployment, and support using Maven and Ant
  • Experience with performing version control and continuous integration of build, deploy, and test, using Jenkins, Stash
  • Experience in API development.
  • Experience in framework development and maintenance.
  • Experience working with AWS is a big plus!
  • Experience as a developer (e.g.- Java, Spring) a plus
  • Encourage reuse
  • Communicate effectively within team as well as with partners

Behavioral

  • Strong communication – verbal and written
  • Assertive and logical
  • Interacts effectively with peers to resolve issues
  • Proven success in a fast paced environment
  • Ability to diagram and summarize design solutions comfortably to a broad and diverse population
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity 
  • Self-motivated with a high degree of intellectual curiosity
  • Is flexible and can make adjustments to changes in operating environment
  • Promotes positive and professional work environment
  • Thought leadership and Research capabilities
  • Ability to evaluate and propose best-of-breed tools and engineering best-practices
  • Expertise in conveying technical concepts to internal customers, technical team members, and/or other technical contributors across the organization
  • Deeply self-motivated with the ability to work independently, coordinating activities within cross-regional and multi-functional teams
  • A passion for excellence, innovation, and teamwork; eager to learn and adapt every day
  • Able to coach team members in areas where you have domain expertise and able to coordinate with partners on

The Skills that are Good to Have for this role

  • Financial Services  domain experience with exposure to Mutual Funds
  • Unix/Linux , Shell scripting, Tomcat, Docker , Scheduling Tool like ControlM
  • Experience in agile methodology

Photon Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office

DLF IT Park 1/124 Mount Poonamallee Road Sivaji Gardens Manapakkam , Chennai, India, 600089

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