Technical Lead - Test Automation

Technical Lead - Test Automation

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Location: San Jose, CA – On-site Required 2 days per week, candidate still needs to already be local to the SJ area.

Length: 12 months + extension

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Job Description
Candidates must be local to Bay Area
Candidates must work on-site Tuesday and Wednesday (if you want 100% remote, this will NOT work).
The position requires a

technical lead with strong hands-on experience of the last 5+ years, NOT someone that’s a technically hands-off manager, people -Lead, or non-technical team leads.
Looking for a strong technical lead who is or could grow to the expert/architect level in automation test development for User Interface, API testing.

Qualification:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in software automated test development.
• Robot Framework Experience and Selenium C# hands-on experience

• Expert with hands-on experience in automation framework design, architecture, and process implementation.
• Excellent skills in analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex issues in automated scripts development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a collaborative environment as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Effective at learning new technologies and actively introducing advanced process improvements and test technologies.
• Effective at understanding and communicating technical information; ability to translate to and from business language.
• Strong ability to prioritize and meet a deadline.
• Strong communication skills – written & verbal.
• Strong hands-on experience with scripting in Robot Automation Framework, Selenium, and other test automation tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with scripting in C#, Python, and other programming languages.

• Strong knowledge of Action Driven, Keyword Driven, Data-Driven testing approaches, and other latest methodologies in software testing.
• Strong hands-on experience with OS virtualization.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps services and Azure portal.
• Strong hands-on experience with GIT, TFVC
• Strong hands-on experience with Selenium. Hands-on experience with other industry-leading software automation tools & languages is a big plus.
• Strong knowledge in automated test development for desktop and client-server applications.
• Strong knowledge of web front and back-end automated testing, cross-browser automated testing, web application performance, web services test development.
• Strong knowledge of automation development processes, methodologies, and complete software development lifecycles.

• Good knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies in software development.
• Good experience with development and testing using Performance testing tools.
Responsibilities:

Expected Responsibilities:
• Expand automation framework to provide additional development capabilities. Analyze existing systems and identify areas for improvement.
• Work closely with software developers and test engineers to understand software workflows, use cases, and specifications in creating automated scripts across the application.
• Design, develop, and document automated test scripts to ensure the quality of our products.
• Work closely with a team to ensure script implementation comply with best practices and testability requirements.
• Work independently and as a member of the automation team developing and maintaining automation scripts.
• Develop and verify automation test scripts to build a system to support automation of unit, functional, performance, security, and integration testing. Translate existing manual tests and defects into automated scripts.
• Collaborate effectively with remote test automation resources.
• Identify, analyze, and document software defects detected by automation scripts.
• Follow the agile development process.