Sr Automation Test Engineer - United States - 29737 - Maximus

General information

Job Posting Title

Sr Automation Test Engineer

Date

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

City

Remote

Country

United States

Working time

Full-time

Description & Requirements

Sr. Quality Engineers are resources within IT Applications Testing Shared Services. They are responsible for systems testing of start-up implementations and O&M software development projects. The Sr. QA Engineer’s role includes analyzing and reviewing systems requirements, collaborating with development and DevOps engineering teams to understand project objectives, and gathering automation requirements to design reusable and maintainable automation tests.

The individual will actively contribute to the continuous improvement process by enhancing or expanding the existing automation framework to drive our vision forward. This position also involves developing a test strategy to maximize the use of automation in testing web-based applications built on microservices architecture and webservices. Additionally, the Sr. QA Engineer will mentor testing team members, lead efforts in performing proof-of-concept research for new tools, make recommendations on such tools, and implement them upon management approval.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the development of software solutions that will meet or exceed business requirements which includes; designing and implementing modules to the system specifications, conducting unit testing, troubleshooting issues, and producing detailed proposals to resolve issues.

- Evaluate new coding techniques, tools, modules, and implement as appropriate.

- Consult on requirements elicitation and definition.

- Design software solutions per systems requirements.

- Code software solutions per designs.

- Code reviews, unit test, and integrate coded modules.

- Assist other developers in resolving issues by providing guidance and training.

- Support testing and remediate defects.

- Support users through troubleshooting and analysis of production logs and data.

- Investigate new solutions, tools, products, and techniques to incorporate into coding standards.

- May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

Design, implement and maintain Page Object Model and Data Driven framework for Test Automation.

• Develop test automation code in Selenium/Python or Selenium/Java programming to test UI, DB applications, and Mobile API.

• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, and AWS teams to build and execute tests through CI/CD deployment pipelines.

• Identify and prepare test data for testing purposes.

• Participate in test management activities for testing web based and/or mobile applications including test data preparation, execution, and defect reporting

• Manage defect lifecycle process from reporting bugs to closure.

• Review automation framework, peer review of automation code, test scripts and test suites to ensure adherence to coding and security standards.

• Mentor other team members during the sprint work and provide project-specific trainings to new team members.

• Provide regular updates to the Test/Project Manager.

• Attend project-related meeting as needed.

• Provide testing estimations for manual and automation testing.

• Maintain project’s manual test and automation documentation.

• Provide UAT support for their test data needs.

• Perform other testing-related duties as per project needs.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in Automation testing for medium to large complex web-based project, preferably in healthcare industry.

• Proven ability to code in Python and or Java using OOPs concepts to build reusable and maintainable automation scripts.

• Proficient in test automation and execution in an Agile environment

• Proficient in testing webservices and web applications using REST APIs, with tools such as Postman.

• Must have experience with Selenium WebDriver with Selenium Grid 4 preferred.

• Experience in writing custom code/solutions to facilitate automation.

• Demonstrated proficiency with SQL for creating/modifying queries for backend and ETL testing.

• Experience with building queries for DB validations, Rest components/APIs for testing webservices and web applications, and Unix shell scripting

Working experience with AWS fundamentals and core concepts for test development and execution

• Experience with Scripting languages such as JavaScript, HTML, creating and validating XML.

• Demonstrated proficiency in writing Test Plans and Test Cases.

• Experience with testing tools for Test and Defect management.

• Strong in technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and running automation scripts through CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or tools in AWS ecosystem.

• Ability to work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

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Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.