Liaison International
QA Automation Engineer
Job Description
At Liaison, we’ve helped higher education institutions build better, more diverse classes for three decades. You may recognize us as the company behind the Centralized Application Service (CAS), Enrollment Marketing services and platform (EMP), SlideRoom, Time2Track, TargetX (CRM) and Othot.
Everything we do is focused on taking that proven success and expanding its scope and scale. Over 31,000 programs on more than 1,000 campuses see us as a forward-thinking partner integral to meeting their total enrollment goals — and we’re building the data- and mission-driven team that will reinforce our role for decades to come.
The QA Automation Engineer is responsible for designing and executing overall automation testing strategy for a broad range of applications and platforms. This individual will drive overall testing strategy with the proper mix of business knowledge and technical leadership. Planning activities involve working closely with architects and technical leads to define the long-term strategy for repeatable and scalable automation testing activities within the organization. Duties also include creating quality standards for products and testing systems for efficiency, reliability and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Organize and manage QA automation test design and implementation tasks on a project.
- Participate in requirements discussions and identify requirements that may be missing, wrong, or lack clarity.
- Develop and execute tests for end-to-end scenarios, reported customer facing issues, and other externally initiated sources.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for integration runs.
- Conduct and report on analysis of test results and coverage factors.
- Ensure proper communication occurs with the project teams on test status, issues and risk to deployment.
- Work with development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.
- Ensure test cases are appropriately structured for automation execution when applicable.
- Work with automation to incorporate new functionality into the automation test suite.
- Provide guidance to Associate Engineers to execute test sets assigned to them, develop their own, and effective defect reporting.
Position Requirements:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline, or its equivalent plus 2 years of related experience. Alternatively, will accept a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus 5 years related experience, in lieu of a master’s degree.
- 7+ years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in QA automation tools such as Selenium.
- Should have strong experience in JAVA programming language.
- Ability to work independently or in a team environment on multiple projects.
- Knowledge of Agile and JIRA.
- Experience in 508 accessibility and performance testing.
- Experience in SQL scripting relational databases, Unit testing of Web applications
- Excellent understanding of DB and behavior driven testing is required for this role.
- Experience in working with software specifications and documentation.
- Experience in breaking the system and thinking out of the box while doing functional testing.
- Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and software releases.
- Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills.
- Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
- Should have worked in an onsite offshore model.
- Should understand selenium tests and cucumber feature files and should be able to understand system and console logs.
- Should have experience in writing UI and API level automated tests.
- Should have experience with continuous integration environment such as Jenkins and Travis.
