SDET-Sandy Springs GA - Georgia IT Inc.

SDET
Location: Sandy Springs GA
Duration: 6 months
Rate: DOE
U.S Citizen, Green Cards and EAD preferred. No Sponsorship available for this contract to hire
What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with stakeholders and project team to identify needs and gather requirements
• Support the team in the design of user stories and acceptance criteria
• Advocate and evangelize best practices such as pair programming, Test Driven Development (TDD), behavioral-driven development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Advocate automation of every part of the software delivery lifecycle
• Assist scrum team with sprint planning, test design, test execution, defect analysis/root cause investigation & reporting on test status
• Identify defects and missing information in requirements
• Implement and continually improve an automated testing framework at all levels of the application stack
• Design and implement automated test cases
• Contribute to the creation of a regression test plan specific to the project.
• Perform manual testing as required
• Extensive experience working with end-to-end testing processes and methodologies/frameworks
• Deep experience implementing complex test automation using Agile automation techniques and tools
• Ability to articulate the role of testing in an overall QA function and to influence a team of testers and developers towards a culture of "fail early” and "building quality in”
• Exposure to Agile (Scrum) methodology
• Exposure to development environments using Continuous Integration (CI)
• Experience working with Selenium grid and implementing parallel test execution
• Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience analyzing business requirements, functional specifications and with collaborative specification
• Experience of Agile workload planning and management (Stories, Tasks, etc.)
• Preparation of defect reports and defect metrics, preferably automated
• Defect Analysis and management experience 
  Desirable Skills:

• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or equivalent
• Experience in the financial market an advantage
• Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Experience of working on business-critical applications and large-scale customer facing websites
• Insurance experience is desirable although not essential