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Senior Automation Test Architect at Spruce InfoTech in Woodlawn, MD
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Company Description
Spruce InfoTech is the leading service provider in the fields of project management, architecture design, installation, implementation and administration of EPM and BI projects. Our team of experts provide with proven industry solutions that help our clients to have better understanding of the business and aides in decision making. We provide our clients with various services that help them to manage, control and transform their businesses by employing new age technology solutions that are cost effective and productive in nature. Our team members have huge experience in different types of enterprise solutions like that of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (aka Hyperion), OBIEE and TIBCO.
Job Description
Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities:
o Provide technical leadership and strategic direction to the project team and organization.
o Architect, develop, and maintain an innovative test automation system for the organization.
o Design and develop the Test Automation framework.
o Define automated test criteria and develop automated test scripts for all the functionality that meets specified automation criteria.
o Work closely with the application architect to develop a solid testing solution, working towards the future state of the application architecture.
o Lead complex test automation efforts using Cucumber/Selenium and Java for large Agile software projects and identify innovative solutions to solve complex test problems.
o Work collaboratively in a team-based Agile environment with other technical staff, business owners, and subject matter experts, that follow the industry standard Scrum and SAFe methodologies.
o Assist in the training/mentoring of team members, including testers, developers, and business analysts and implement best practices for test automation developers across Scrum teams.
o Communicate automation goals, priorities, and status across the organization.
o Partner with Agile Release Train to plan for new functionality, resolve defects, and incorporate error injection test methodologies.
Required Qualifications:
o Seven (7) + years’ experience architecting, developing, and maintaining an innovative test automation environment including test automation framework.
o Three (3) + years’ experience with agile development (preferably SAFe), DevOps, test driven development, advanced concepts of scrum, and knowledge of agile project tools, such as VersionOne.
o Three (3) + years’ experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Build and Continuous Deployment Practice, Tools (such as Chef, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus) and trends.
o Three (3) + years’ experience with Cloud based implementation and transition to the Cloud including virtualization.
o Experience in analyzing metrics, identify dysfunctions, and make recommendations to senior management.
o Strong understanding of Java/J2EE concepts, object oriented design and development.
Education Requirements:
o Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and/or equivalent formal training or work experience is required and 12 years of work experience.
Equivalent Education & Experience:
o Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and/or equivalent formal training and 14 years of work experience.
o Associate’s Degree with 16 years of relevant experience
Desired Qualifications:
o Demonstrable knowledge of advanced concepts of scrum, Kanban, XP, and Waterfall.
o Good understanding of QA methodology and strong ‘hands on’ experience developing test scripts for functional, performance, and regression testing that include automated, ad-hoc, and manual testing elements.
o Experience with source code revision control systems GIT and SVN.
o Experience with MEAN stack.
o Tools and technologies such as: WebSphere, RDBMS: Oracle, DB2, Java, SQL, Eclipse, RAD, Fortify, ALM/QTP, Junit, Selenium, Git, Jenkins, Gulp, Jsdoc, Gerrit, Jslint, Karma, and Jasmine, MySQL, Node.js
o Proficient in MS Office, MS Visio, and SharePoint.
o Excellent team building skills, including cross-functional team building.
o Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
o Prior Social Security Administration (SSA) disability experience
Additional Information
Title : Senior Automation Test Architect
Location : Woodlawn, MD
Interview: Phone & F2F