QA Automation Engineer

Summary

Join Alexa Translations, a leader in legal, financial, and securities translation services, as a Software QA Automation Engineer. You will play a key role in growing our platform and network capabilities to handle massive growth. Responsibilities include developing and executing automated tests, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving service uptime. You will leverage your expertise in various testing methodologies and programming languages to ensure high-quality product releases. This role requires significant experience in software QA automation and proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and Python. The ideal candidate will also possess familiarity with CI/CD processes and various testing tools.

Requirements

• Minimum five (5) years software QA testing experience
• Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Programming, Mathematics/Analytics or related field or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of experience in Software QA Automation experience
• Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and Python
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes
• Familiarity with version control, defect tracking, and test management tools (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA)
• Experience with web application testing and tools such as TestComplete
• Experience with API testing and tools such as REST Assured
• Experience with performance testing and tools such as JMeter
• Knowledge of SQL databases
• Willingness to work in the Eastern time zone remotely
• Fluent in English and Spanish

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SCRUM teams from the start of a sprint to deliver best-in-class technical solutions
• Create, optimize, and refactor automated test scripts for legacy, client-server and web applications
• Monitor automation processes and prepare defect status reports
• Develop test scenarios based on business requirements and designs
• Write automation and perform Web, API, UI, functional, regression, smoke, black box, load, performance and end-to-end testing
• Write and/or modify SQL queries to perform database validations
• Work with functional teams in reducing error rates and perform root cause analysis of errors/trends
• Partner with automation engineers to create a unified approach to automation across the team
• Architect maintainable and extendable automated test frameworks and tools using scripting language(s) to test various product APIs as well as GUI elements
• Troubleshoot defects in existing code
• Work with support, stakeholders and developers to aid in replication of software defects
• Automate testing of defects and assist with the maintenance of the Regression Test suite
• Collaborate as part of a development team by providing a customer viewpoint
• Make suggestions/contributions for the improvement of software testing/quality
• Contribute in meetings, Scrums, and other inter-team interaction
• Provide software and hardware capability assessments to outside departments
• Research and make recommendations to the group regarding new technology available and its proper application

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the following technologies: Text processing, Regular Expressions, knowledge of processing variety of documents
• CAT Tools such as: memoQ, SDL, Memsource
• Desire to continue to grow professional capabilities with ongoing training and educational opportunities
• AWS Cloud Applications and Services Testing
• Fluent in Arabic, French or other languages