Job Description:
As a Software Test Automation Engineer, you will work in a product development team that develops highly configurable software in a collaborative environment employing agile development methodologies. As an individual contributor, you participate in the entire life cycle of product development and contribute to build quality product offerings. In conjunction with development engineers, you will design and implement strategies and tools for efficient and comprehensive automated testing with a strong focus on data and analytics platforms.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Required skills:
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in software test automation
- Strong expertise in Core Java or Python - object-oriented programming, data structures, and automation framework development
- Advanced Python programming skills for test automation and data validation is preferred
- Selenium frameworks expertise - WebDriver, TestNG/JUnit, and related automation technologies
- Strong SQL skills - capable of developing complex queries for data validation and database testing
- CI/CD pipeline experience - hands-on implementation and maintenance of automated testing pipelines
- Excellent communication skills - ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Strong customer focus - understanding of business requirements and customer impact
Preferred skills:
- Experience in testing data projects including Azure Data Factory/SSIS or other relevant experience
- Experience in working with PowerBI
- Experience in API testing
- Knowledge of performance testing tools and methodologies
- Understanding of cloud platforms
- Experience with containerization and microservices testing
- Adoption of AI in daily tasks
- Experience working in SAFe Agile environment and understanding of Agile ceremonies
- Good understanding of source control systems like git or bitbucket and release management
Analyze Business and Technical Requirements:
- Assess compatibility of requirements with company quality standards
- Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of product requirements
- Develop detailed acceptance requirements for use cases (user stories)
Test planning & Design, Test Execution and Reporting:
- Understand the system design in order to contribute to the development of the project and ensure the quality of the result
- Design, develop, organize, and maintain functional and non-functional test cases adhering to the test case standards
- Identify potential risks and seek testing approaches to manage that risk
- Develop, implement and maintain automated test scripts
- Execute test cases for Functional, Regression, Performance, Load, Integration, System, GUI
- Analyze defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible, and clearly document issues and bugs
- Work towards in debugging and fixing defects, retesting and resolving open issues
- Work closely with developers, architects to understand underlying architecture and code in order to develop test strategies across different layers of the application
- Understand test automation needs, task out work, and provide feedback on design solutions
- Develop toolsets, frameworks for test automation
- Extend, enhance, update the existing automation frameworks to work with new services and write end-to-end automation for user scenarios (UI, service layer, API, integration, and performance testing)
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing
- Automate newly integrated features
- Assist or lead the scrum team in ensuring comprehensive coverage using automated testing
- Effectively communicate with project leaders and Engineering Management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts
- Communicate and report out the testing efforts and technical aspects of projects
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
Top Skills
What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
