Lead Test Automation Developer
Horizontal Talent

Job Details:

• As a Lead Test Automation Developer you will partner with company development, devops, product and vendor teams to establish and execute test automation frameworks.
• This includes supporting various seamless commerce initiatives such as Point of Sale, OmniChannel Integration, Hubs, mobile applications, and e-commerce sites.
• Additionally, this position involves aiding in the creation of CI-CD automation with application monitoring solutions utilizing a blend of technical expertise, organizational capabilities, and interpersonal skills.
• You must have a passion for enhancing internal technical team experiences, be confident to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others. RESPONSIBILITIES:?
• Develop and execute high quality, flexible and scalable test frameworks and tests in support of a variety of testing activities.?
• Work collaboratively with Development, QA, Product and vendor teams for new functional and performance test development in support of all project and application initiatives under Omni Channel.??
• Help in our continuous testing efforts by integrating automated tests into the CI/CD pipelines.?
• Monitor test execution(automated) and report quality.?
• Challenge the status quo every day and never stop improving test automation tools, coverage and quality.??
• Coordinate and manage/influence multiple vendors involved in delivery of our omni-channel capability.?
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Delivery leads to support testing of initiatives?
• Conduct interviews, evaluate candidates, and onboard new resources.?
• Develop continuous improvement plans for existing application changes to include test strategy, resource loading, and advancement of test automation.?

QUALIFICATIONS:?

• 7+ years of software development experience with at least 4+ years focused in automation and frameworks.?
• Passionate about software quality, test automation and continuous improvement.?
• Demonstrated proficiency in one or more programming languages like Python(mostly preferred), Ruby, Groovy etc.?
• Demonstrated proficiency with two or more open source test automation frameworks like Pytest, Cucumber, Rspec, Playwright/Protractor/Cypress, Spock, Rest Api clients etc.?
• Familiar with progressive test automation techniques like BDD (Behavior Driven Development),? POM(page object model), OOP(object oriented programming), test containerization, test parallelization.?
• Proficient with version control systems like Git.?
• Proficient with source control management techniques including branching, commits, rebase, code review and merging etc.?
• Test Automation experience in a Retail environment (preferred).?
• Experience automating tests for various types of testing: UI, Integration, API, Database, Load, Soak, Performance etc.?
• Experience with automating Web applications, backend services, REST interfaces, third party integrations.?
• Familiar with at least one public cloud interface like AWS/GCP/Azure.?

Technology Snapshot:
Required:

• Python, Pytest, Playwright
• Rest/GraphQL API tests
• Azure APIM / API Gateway
• CI CD (Gitlab / Github)
• Containerization experience and Orchestration knowledge, Docker / Kubernetes etc

Nice to have:

• Datadog APM
• Kuberenetes
• Prometheus / Grafana monitoring
• Azure APIM GraphQL Gateway
• Azure Functions / AWS Lambda
• Azure Containers / AWS ECS
• Azure AKS / AWS EKS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent Software Engineering experience.
• 3rd party digital e-commerce platform experience such as IBM Sterling OMS, Radial OMS, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC). Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available mission-critical service.
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies. Application performance analysis and monitoring.
• Related software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Datadog, Artifactory, Npm, Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube. Strong technical project management and documentation skills.

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