What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Automation Engineer position at PowerPlan, Inc?

Overview

The Quality Automation Engineer is a vital member of the Development organization, playing a crucial role in ensuring the quality of our software solutions. This role serves as the guardian of product release quality, offering the seal of approval before deployment and safeguarding our position as a market-leading technology provider.

As a Quality Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated test scripts, conducting test executions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity for individuals passionate about technology, finance, and software testing to work on innovative projects developed by PowerPlan.

Responsibilities

Key Performance Objectives

Automation Expertise: Within the first 3 months, demonstrate proficiency in using C# with Selenium, Playwright, or a similar automation framework, with the ability to create and execute automated test scripts.

Continuous Integration: Within 6 months, successfully integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring that tests are executed consistently during the development process, leading to early issue detection.

Defect Tracking: Regularly document and track defects, taking the lead in providing detailed information to expedite issue resolution and improve the overall defect management process.

Performance Optimization: Actively collaborate on creating and executing automated performance tests, identifying bottlenecks, and making optimization recommendations to improve application performance.

Comprehensive Test Documentation: Within the first 3 months, maintain and update test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test results, ensuring that it is comprehensive and up to date at all times.

Stay Current with Industry Trends: Continuously stay updated with emerging tools, industry trends, and best practices in automation testing, presenting at least one recommended improvement every quarter to enhance the testing process.

Risk Monitoring: Continuously monitor project risks, schedules, and costs, providing regular reports to the team, and taking proactive measures to mitigate identified risks.

System Metrics Reporting: Define high-level system metrics and consistently gather and report system statistics, researching and explaining major trend fluctuations or anomalies to support decision-making.

Testing Strategies: Provide guidance on testing strategies and be accountable for defining internal test strategies and methodologies, ensuring efficient and effective testing practices.

Test Data Preparation: Identify test data requirements, test environment setup, and configurations necessary for testing, ensuring that the testing environment is always prepared.

Compliance Reporting: Regularly monitor and report on Unit, Integration, Functional, Performance, and Regression automated testing to ensure compliance with established standards and processes.

System Test Completion: Ensure that system tests are successfully completed and thoroughly documented, with all identified problems resolved before implementation or conversion.

Qualifications

Must have a minimum of 3 years of software automation testing on C# using Selenium, Playwright, or similar automation framework.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Accounting, a relevant technical certification, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrate a strong and thorough knowledge of Agile/Scrum SDLC, including User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Design Testing, Final Implementation, and Operations.
Exhibit experience in designing and/or utilizing test automation frameworks for web, client, and/or mobile applications, with the ability to showcase successful automation projects.

“PowerPlan is an EOE”

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"Please note that this is a hybrid role that requires the candidate to live in Atlanta and involves a combination of onsite work from our corporate office as well as work from home. While we strive to accommodate flexible working arrangements when sensible, there will be times when onsite work is required. This could include scheduled office days, team meetings, client meetings, or special events.*

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, domestic partner status or medical condition.

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