Senior Automation Engineer

Summary:

Work as a senior member of a Scrum team to execute the overall quality plan for one of Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
• Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity
• Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in testathon activities as needed
• Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts

Qualifications:

Education:

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment
• Demonstrated experience programming with C#, SQL and shell scripting languages such as Powershell and Bash
• Demonstrated experience implementing automation tests with Silk4Net strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas strongly desired
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
• Effective written and verbal communication

Supervisory Responsibility:

☒ Individual Contributor                     ☐ Team Lead              ☐ Manager of Managers