QA Automation Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Design and build advanced testing capabilities for applications across platforms, while understanding our products from both a technical and business perspective Communicate with leadership, product owners, other technologists and users to create working testing software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities Break down complex problems into elegant solutions utilizing Cucumber and other automation tools such as Perfecto, Selenium Work with data sources and APIs Assist development teams in improving testing efficiency and identifying non-compliance with requirements, including edge cases, usability and general reliability Work with development engineers to track down defects Actively contribute to improving software prior to distribution to Lab49 clients Advocate test-driven development and deliver high quality testing capabilities Experience/Skills Required Proven software based automated testing experience Experience with Cucumber and Gherkin and XPath - testing Java apps Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent experience Experience working with data via REST and JSON Experience working in an Agile environment Working knowledge of the general development landscape, architectures, trends and emerging technologies