100% REMOTE - QA Selenium Automation Engineer (Web UI)

Overview:
Our client, a national Mortgage company is looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer experienced in Selenium Test Automation and testing externally facing Web UI.

This position is a 6 month contract opportunity to extend. It is 100% Remote, EST/CST preferred.

Summary:
QA Automation Engineer is a results oriented Software QA Engineer lead with minimum 8 years total hands-on experience.  This person must have proven liaison experience and partnership skills to effectively manage client expectations along with accomplished communication, negotiation, and problem resolution skills.  It is crucial they are an innovative problem solver with hands on testing experience and automating test cases. The candidate should also have the ability to see both the business and technical sides of the problem. Reengineered and facilitated key QA methodologies, processes and metrics standards resulting in increased quality of releases delivered to clients.  Strong expertise in automation and backend testing.   Strong analytical skills with solid technical background in distributed development environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead QA initiatives for a project with possible coordination of offshore resources while contributing to the testing effort in a hands-on role
• Work with supervisor to oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and using tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
• Act as key point of contact for QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
• Review requirements and/or non-business requirements
• Develop and execute procedures, plans, test cases and scripts (manual and automated)
• Build automated test scripts (using Selenium based framework or LoadRunner)
• Work closely with cross-functional organizations, project teams and clients to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases and deliver high quality products
• Track testing risks and develop mitigation action plans
• Responsibilities will include the creation and execution of detailed test scripts to verify software functionality and/or performance and adherence to business and non-business requirements

 
 Qualifications:

• Proven experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Automated Testing, Behavior Driven Development Strategies
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing automation tests using Java and Selenium
• Proficient in testing and automating REST APIs and Web Services
• Experience with In-Sprint Automation
• Experience working in an Agile development and continuous integration environment
• Experience managing QA teams on initiatives of at least 3 people
• Proven ability to lead offshore teams
• Capable of adapting to a rapidly evolving environment
• Expert at SQA methodologies, tools and approaches (manual and automated testing experience)
• Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, HTML, SOAP/XML, SQL required
• Extensive knowledge of QA tools such as ALM, Jira and methodologies
• Extensive experience with of cross browser testing, compatibility testing, web services and mobile device testing
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Excellent leadership and coaching skills
• Strong people management, interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
• Highly organized, self-motivated, customer oriented and able to work independently as well as within a team and with internal business and technology partner
• Experience and good understanding with Chrome Dev tools, UNIX command, Shell scripting, Eclipse, HTTP, HTTPS, Test Driven Development a plus
• 5 years working on SDLC compliant on-shore and off-shore team environment

 Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from a Four (4) year College or University or equivalent education/experience
• Advanced skills, subject matter expert with 8+ years QA experience.
• Mortgage Industry experience highly preferred
• UI Automation Testing