QA Automation Engineer Lead

Company Description

Why Campfire?

Opportunities arise. Competitors emerge. Demand shifts. Volumes change. Prices rise and fall. Meanwhile, the bottom line, governing the most important decisions a CEO will make, hangs in the balance, as stakeholders await word on earnings, growth, prospects, and stock price.

That’s where we come in! Campfire’s unique, powerful, and cost-effective solution has kindled a growing base of happy customers around the world by bringing future and current revenues and costs under a single roof, with advanced functionality to create, analyze, and modify plans, optimize portfolios, and manage long-term profitability. Campfire’s technology sparks unprecedented insight into a company’s bottom line, unleashing the freedom to focus on the decisions that matter most. Join our visionary tech company and talented and passionate team as we continue to develop such valuable systems.

Job Description

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Your role as a QA Automation Engineer Lead is to lead the automation team to write scripts and create automation environments for repeated tests. Using different automation tools, you will design, test, and deploy effective test automation solutions. Your goal is to help the QA Automation team to automate as much of the testing effort as possible with a minimum set of code.

• Lead effort to manage the QA Automation across the organization
• Write, design, and execute automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically
• Maximize test coverage for the most critical features of the system
• Determine the priority for test scenarios and create execution plans to implement these scenarios
• Write documentation for automated processes including test plans, test procedures, and test cases
• Build/ Enhance test automation frameworks
• Log and document bugs in the tracking system such as JIRA
• Set up Continuous Integration
• Setup regression use cases for daily automation test cycles
• Besides writing automated tests, Test Automation Engineers can still do exploratory testing when they need to understand how functionality manifests itself to the customer.

Qualifications

Successful Candidates Will Demonstrate:

• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment while also being able to execute work independently
• Experience in leading a team and successfully launching new initiatives
• Ability to problem-solve complex issues independently and with a team
• Meet project timelines and deadlines while producing high-quality work
• Ability to identify the big picture in all components of decision making using the top-down thinking approach.
• Eagerness to learn and the ability to adapt to company culture.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, project team members, and customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication ability
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment

Technical Skills

• Technical Skills – Require skills to write programs and scripts in Java
• Suggest /Make framework enhancements to accommodate the scripting needs
• Analytical skills – Analytically examine bug reports, prioritize necessary tests, and streamline application functions through automated testing processes
• Attention to detail – Being detail oriented is required as you will test web applications and API’s to find ways to improve them and isolate problems
• Communication skills – Strong verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate with the engineering team and create testing plans and written reports showing errors
• Besides writing automated tests, Test Automation Engineers can still do exploratory testing when they need to understand how functionality manifests itself to the customer

Tools:

• Proficiency with UI automation testing tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or similar is required
• Mobile Automation testing tools for Android and iOS – Preferred 
• API testing tools: REST Assured, Karate, etc. - Required
• Continuous Integration tools – Jenkins and/or Apache Maven - Required
• Source Code Management - Bit Bucket and/or Github - Required
• JIRA – Defect tracking and task creation tool - Required

Work Experience

• 10-12 years of Automation experience for Use case designing and Testing Framework development
• Work experience with offshore/ onshore model is a big plus

Educational Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Additional Information

Currently, Campfire is working remotely with the exception of 1 day a week in office time. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We do not accept unsolicited 3rd party resumes.