Senior Quality Test Engineer I

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About The Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our government vertical, our solutions assist government agencies and law enforcement to drive insights from complex data sets, improving operation efficiency, increasing program integrity, discovering, and recovering revenue, and making timely and informed decisions to enhance investigations. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below risk.lexisnexis.com.

About The Team

A position in Quality Assurance responsible for developing and executing performance and automation tests. This position plans and executes effective and efficient performance and automation testing to accomplish on-time and efficient delivery of high-quality software products and/or data

About The Role

We are looking for a candidate with strong experience in UI Automation using Selenium and Java with Cucumber, ideally with 2-3 years of hands-on experience. Additionally, the candidate should have good experience in API Automation and possess basic knowledge of databases. Strong communication skills are essential for this role. While not mandatory, experience with GitHub is a valuable asset.

Responsibilities

• Create and define test strategy documents for product delivery. Understand complexities of business functionality and create test plans and test cases. Develop and execute automated tests for assigned projects to successfully and consistently enable delivery of high-quality software products and services on time, on budget, and to specification.
• Plan and execute automated tests on defined scheduled and ensure that reports are shared with QA/Testing staff, development, product managers, project managers, technical leads, and subject matter experts. Log failures resulting from test scenarios. Ensure details causing the functionality to fail are properly written with screenshots for helping the developer analyse the root cause. Review the automation test reports when they are generated. Identify failures and analyze the root cause if it is a functional failure in the application. Log these defects to ensure that they are fixed.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts and other stakeholders to assist in reproducing and fixing the defect.Conduct project reviews, ensuring review criteria are defined, and implementing procedures for ensuring quality control of project deliverables. Ensure that testing addresses requirements as agreed with other stakeholders.
• Interact with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations teams to plan testing for delivery of products. Identify opportunities to apply and re-use existing automation or other tools to meet testing needs.
• Work across teams to enhance quality assurance/testing and help to develop/execute automation testing throughout the business as appropriate. Provide inputs to enhance testing maturity to assure products meet product requirements and quality standards.
• Configure, maintain, and/or administer testing tools or environments. Research available tools and lead or participate in initiatives to identify and implement those that will cost-effectively enhance testing capabilities and product quality. Cooperate in the enhancement of the methodologies employed for test planning and execution, defect tracking, and metric and status reporting.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices. Maintain framework for record retention in order to support internal and external IT audits.
• Identify areas for cooperation with other teams to improve overall quality and, with peers or others, implement initiatives improving testing capability and efficiency. Innovate process improvements that enable efficient delivery and maintenance with consistent direction.
• Maintain awareness of the state of the industry and evaluate emerging trends/developments that may benefit the organization. Maintain flexibility to react quickly to changes in priorities or circumstances to meet the needs of the business. All other duties as assigned.
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of Quality Test Engineering experience; BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required
• Solid understanding of UI and API testing automation testing using Selenium with Java. API automation using any of Rest Assured or any other framework
• UI Automation using Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, BDD etc. frameworks
• Ability to develop and execute complex automated and performance testing. Strong understanding of QA methodologies, solid QA testing skills and attention to detail. Ability to identify and implement continuous improvement practices.
• Strong knowledge of the software development process. Strong research skills (tools/root cause analysis).
• Demonstrates strong ability of identifying innovative approaches to process improvement. Understanding of industry trends.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills. Administration of testing tools/environments.
  
  

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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