Role: Lead QA Automation Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Technical Skills of Full-Stack Test Automation Engineer

(Required)

• 4+ years Back-end/API and 3+ years Front-end/UI testing automation experience with BDD Cucumber and Gherkin

• 3+ years of Back-end/API automation skills: Rest Assured, Java and Spring Boot

• 3+ years of Front-end/UI automation skills: Cypress or Playwright, Typescript and Web (i.e., HTML, JavaScript and CSS)

• Good working experience with Postman, Swagger, RESTful APIs and CICD

(Desired)

• Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results

• Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.

• End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms

• Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data

• The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases

• Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties

• Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus

• Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., Microsoft AzureDevOps, Jenkins, Git)

• At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.

• Experience load and performance testing

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Very Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment

• Pro-active, flexible and creative

• Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.