Automation Engineer-Irving, TX - Georgia IT Inc.

Automation Engineer
Location: Irving, TX
Duration: 12 months
Rate: DOE

U.S Citizen, Green Cards and EAD preferred. No Sponsorship available for this contract to hire job
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with Agile teams to understand end-to-end system functionality.
• Design, implement, document and execute automation test frameworks and suites which can deliver comprehensive automated test coverage with a balanced maintenance and sustainability strategy.
• Solves complex automation challenges and works on complex projects with minimal supervision.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues immediately to management.
• Assist with executing non-functional testing in terms of performance, reliability, stability and compatibility with other systems.
• Monitor quality in production and non-production environments.
• Maintain and update automated test systems as functionality changes evolve the products.
• Work Independently to help build Test automation framework and develop automation scripts.
• CAN code and build scripts for functional, load, and performance type testing.

• Bachelor's (BSc) in engineering, computer science, or a combination of equivalent education and experience
• 5+ years of experience as a software automation engineer with experience in multiple development languages and platforms delivering multiple commercially deployed products to market
• Requirements and General Skills:
• Experience with automation testing
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
• Willingness to learn new technologies - often very quickly
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

• Proven working experience Java development and object-oriented design
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools like Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Cucumber
• Knowledge of AJAX, HTTP, REST, XML, JSON and SQL technologies
• Experience coding and/or scripting of Python, JavaScript, Perl or Bash programs
• Experience with testing in an agile workflow utilizing TDD/BDD best practices in a continuous integration environment
• Proficient computer skills, experience with the Atlassian Development Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket), Microsoft Office Suite (Visio, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
• Good working knowledge of the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Observability & Traceability
• Code craftsmanship; rigor in high code quality, automated testing (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber), and agile engineering best practices
• Knowledge of modern software patterns and anti-patterns
• Able to work within a Git/Gitflow-based multi-branched software environment.
• Preferred experience with Java development tooling: Maven and/or Gradle.
• Used continuous integration environments like TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson.

• Automated Testing