Quality Assurance Automation Engineer II

The Quality Assurance Automation Engineer II is to ensure accurate, stable software releases by creating and maintaining well crafted automated test suites of SkySlope’s web and mobile applications.  This includes contributions to existing automation frameworks, as well as socializing the QA craft and best practices with others.

This is a Hybrid role based out of Sacramento, CA.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for developing and maintaining test automation software for various products.

• Provide test framework improvements and features

• Documentation / commenting of test steps for developing automated regression testing. Take product requirements and success criteria to develop automated testing for a given feature.

• Review existing automation for positive and negative testing coverage and add necessary changes.

• Responsible for contributing to team success and being an effective collaborator.

• Participate in test planning and provide feedback on testing strategy.

• Review & approve solutions and code of other Engineers.

• Foster collaboration with team members, both inside and outside of the Engineering Department

• Help to foster a quality-first software development culture

• Continuous learning and building expertise.

• Increase domain knowledge about SkySlope and our clients.

• Continued learning around testing technologies that SkySlope utilizes, but not limited to it.

• Exploration and suggestions into process or testing improvements.

• Understanding of SkySlope goals and objectives.

• Mentor more junior team members.

• Other duties:

• All team members are always encouraged to think outside the box and pursue opportunities to go above and beyond their job description and baseline expectations, in order to make our customers' lives better.

Competencies:

• High level of accuracy in issue documentation
• Email, word processing software and spreadsheets
• Project planning/bug tracking software
• Proficient with Test Automation using an IDE
• Source control (ie Git)
• Proficient in C#, Java, or Javascript
• Proficient in JSON, XML
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Ability to work well in an environment with change and quick growth
• Forward thinker who is always improving skills and knowledge
• Familiarity with RESTful API testing (e.g., .NET, Postman)
• Familiarity with BDD (e.g., Cucumber, SpecFlow)
• Basic understanding of test automation infrastructure setup and maintenance

Required Education and Experience:

• Hands-on experience with Agile software development process
• 2-5 years Test Automation development experience including IDE, debugging, Git., etc.
• Demonstrable experience of web application protocols and frameworks such as HTTP, Javascript, NodeJS, React, JSON, XML, WebServices, REST, C#, Java
• Experience supporting and providing feedback for software development
• Worked in a team environment and able to adapt to varying personality types on a team
• Participate in test automation strategy, test automation estimation and planning discussions
• Knowledge of Selenium, Appium or other automation testing tools, and writing automation tests
• Experience using project planning/bug tracking software
• Experience with email, word processing software and spreadsheets
• C#, Java or JavaScript experience in a professional setting.