IT QA Automation Engineer

Guild Mortgage Company, closing loans and opening doors since 1960. As a mortgage banking firm we are dedicated to serving the home owner/buyer. Our goal is to provide affordable home financing for our customers, utilizing the best terms available while providing a level of professionalism and service unsurpassed in the lending industry.

Position Summary

The IT QA Automation Engineer is primarily responsible, under intermittent supervision, for creating automated scripts to test all aspects of company software solutions including user interfaces, APIs, and DB values. The role collaborates with all team members as needed to understand the impact of requested enhancements and add or
modify existing automation scripts to fully verify the changes work as expected without unintended side effects.

Compensation 

This role is an exempt position with a Targeted Salary Range of $94,000 to $120,000 annually.

Compensation at Guild is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to local and federal minimum wage requirements, education, level of experience, and applicant’s geographical location.

Essential Functions

• Ability to work closely with other agile team members in the development of automated test suites, execute and identify potential quality risks 
• Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a test strategy to perform functional testing 
• Collaborate with team members to identify root cause and help determine potential solutions 
• Enable and ensure that team meets and exceeds expectations for all deliverable life cycles 
• Proactively inspect and adapt Engineering’s quality processes and tools 
• Assist and track on behalf of the system test team as needed for cross product end to end system testing 
• Work with team members to adopt test-driven development techniques and ensure that the quality is built into the code 
• Communicate with other agile teams as part of a shared responsibility for total product quality 
• Collaborate with team members to effectively analyze and isolate complex system level problems that extend past the reach of the product under test 
• Integrate test suites into the test management system and test harness 
• Identify and bring team focus to potential quality issues and work with the team to mitigate technical debt 
• Use metrics to measure where the team is versus where they should be in terms of quality 
• Perform other duties as assigned 

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent, computer-related degree, or similar technical training, along with a minimum of two years of experience in Automation Engineering role(s) 
• Framework and Selenium WebDriver experience 
• Demonstrated expertise in Robot Framework for automated test development 
• Solid understanding of automating front-end, mobile and APIs 
• Experience with test automation frameworks, quality reporting tools, and CI/CD environments for enterprise software delivery 
• Skillset in Python script development is required 
• Experience with API driven automation using Postman/ Newman 
• Experience in automating desktop-based applications is a plus 
• Experience writing software designs / specifications and quality test strategy and test plans 
• Solid understanding of, and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools: 

• Agile tools including Confluence and JIRA 
• Office 365, including Outlook, SharePoint, Word, Excel and PowerPoint 

• Continuous integration tools like Jenkins 
• Familiarity with security and cloud technologies preferred 
• Ability to solve technical problems and think abstractly 
• Ethical, with a commitment to company values 
• Solid understanding of working in an agile software organization as a software developer, QA member, or SDET. 
• A team player, able to work with all levels of Engineering roles, including individual contributors, architects, managers, product owners and scrum masters 
• Has the ability to identify and bring team focus to potential quality issues and works with the team to mitigate technical debt 
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands while maintaining a keen attention to detail 
• Has the ability to use metrics to measure where the team is versus where they should be in terms of quality 
• Has a Quality driven thought process 
• Strong sense of urgency and personal initiative 
• Able to work independently and self-manage backlogs and priorities 

Supervision

• 0% Supervision
• Travel: 0%

Requirements

• Physical: Work is primarily sedentary; mobility in an office setting.
• Manual Dexterity: Frequent use of computer keyboard and mouse.
• Audio/Visual: Ability to accurately interpret sounds and associated meanings at a volume consistent with interpersonal conversation. Regularly required to accurately perceive, distinguish and interpret information received visually and through audio; e.g., words, numbers and other data broadcasted aloud/viewed on a screen, as well as print and other media.
• Environmental: Office environment – no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

Guild offers a pleasant work environment, competitive compensation and excellent benefits package; including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, LTD and 401(k) with employer match.
Guild Mortgage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

REQ#: ITQAA017830