Senior Automation Test Engineer (UFT/QTP)

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Roles and Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

• Comply with the QA measures and testing standards outlined by NextGen product team throughout the development/product lifecycles.
• Participate in detailed refinement of requirements for clarification, additions, and potential early issue identification. Includes analyzing documented requirements or technical specifications of the application under development
• Ensure that testing activities comprehensively validate applications to meet business

requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues

• Experience in the BDD automation framework and develop effective integration and regression test cases that fully test the requirements and automate them using UFT
• Able to debug automation code
• Able to suggest and establish practices that lead to higher test stability by identifying methods of testing - not only the code the test is intended to validate, but the test code itself
• Maintain test cases as required
• Work with the team to define effective regression suites
• Responsible for configuration management of documents, code, tests, and artifacts related to tasks
• Setup and maintain local test environment(s), Perform database verification
• Ability to lead small projects, activities
• Perform database verification
• Track test progress and test results
• Analyze formal test results to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws
• Independently work with the Agile team in planning, outlining the tasks involved in a project and executing tasks assigned in a timely fashion
• Ability to enhance the automation frameworks and guide the teams to write best automated scripts in line with manual test cases
• Experience with writing test cases, familiarity with Gherkin will be a plus

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 to 8 years of experience in software quality assurance engineering in both manual and automation areas
• Minimum of 4 plus years of experience in UFT Automation
• Working knowledge in test estimation techniques
• Working knowledge in VB scripting
• Working knowledge in GIT
• Strong knowledge of software testing best practices and methodologies in an Agile methodology using Scrum
• Experienced with various types of testing to fully test an application to render a quality product
• Experience using IDEs for software development (e.g., Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc.)
• Experience with database verification including writing and executing queries
• Very strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Must be an effective written and spoken communicator with staff and management.
• Bachelor’s degree (four-year college or technical school) Preferred, Field of Study: Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar field
• Experience in assessing enhancements and enhancing automation framework

Desired Candidate Profile

Healthcare domain experience a plus

• Experienced with Agile project management tools including JIRA

Perks and Benefits