The Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer ensures the quality of software through automated testing, framework maintenance, and collaboration with engineering teams. Responsibilities include developing testing solutions, document preparation, troubleshooting, and mentoring team members.
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
The Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer has experience in software development and quality engineering. This role applies their knowledge of programming languages, data structures, and algorithms to identify and fix issues in the code while helping to create test automated frameworks, integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline, and write code to improve the overall testability of our software. The Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer investigates and determines how best to automate testing of applications and services and will be responsible for updating the test automation framework, maintaining test cases, and troubleshooting application test failures from sprint to sprint.
What You'll Do
- Responsible for the overall quality of IT projects and changes through execution of all aspects of the Software Development and Testing Life Cycle.
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to understand software features, help debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and help implement new tools and frameworks to streamline the quality process.
- Perform exploratory and manual testing as necessary to ensure high test coverage.
- Prepare test documentation (test strategy, test plan, test summary report, test cases) that closely mimics real-world usage scenarios.
- Develop, implement, and leverage automated testing solutions across API, functional and non-functional test cases.
- Identify, log, and track test results including defects discovered during all phases of test, and troubleshoot any errors and points of failure.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineers in test design and coding best practices through code reviews.
- Produce consistent, high-quality automation code and ensure extensive unit, API, and regression test coverage.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field with relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of SDET and software engineering experience to include comprehensive understanding of key concepts of software quality and advanced understanding of Python and Javascript languages, supporting an Agile delivery model.
- 7+ years of experience creating, running, and troubleshooting automation scripts for testing web, local and mobile applications, microservices, and using open-source test tools like Selenium, Pytest, and Playwright.
- Experience creating, modifying, and maintaining Automation Framework Models such as Modular, Keyword-Driven, Data-Driven, or Hybrid.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems while explaining solutions in simple terms.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and perform multiple tasks under minimal supervision.
- 5+ years of experience working with DevOps installing, configuring, and integrating automation scripts on Continuous Integration (CI) tools like Jenkins, Github Runners, and Argo CD.
- Experience working in version control systems, preferably Github.
- Experience with stress, performance, and load testing using Locust and JMeter.
- Ability to work remotely
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
What We Offer
The base salary range for this position is $135K to $145K/year. Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data. Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
Business Wire’s total rewards include:
A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Top Skills
Argo Cd
Git
JavaScript
Jenkins
Jmeter
Locust
Playwright
Pytest
Python
Selenium
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