Automation QA Engineer

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your automation and quality assurance experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to serve and protect our citizens home and abroad?  Do you have the skills necessary to deliver high quality client solutions? Then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

About the Role

As an Automation QA Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and reviewing automated solutions, delivering high quality tests and code contributions.  You will be responsible for creating and executing test plans to support multiple products. As an Automation QA Engineer, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including:

• Test Planning and Analysis

  • Reviews business requirements and design specifications for moderately complex changes/systems for completeness and testability

  • Analyze and understand testing procedures and requirements

  • Obtain requirements from stakeholders and end-users to find automation solutions that align with development and QA goals

• Automation Design and Execution

  • Identify opportunities to automate the team’s process and operations

  • Design, develop and execute QA tests with effective automation scripts

  • Ensure that the automation solutions implemented thoroughly cover all necessary aspects of a product and lead to the resolution of any errors found

  • Ensure automation work leads to a more efficient testing strategy and a higher quality product

• Collaboration and Communication

  • Provides inputs and escalates issues in bug triage meetings and coordinates with development team

  • Responsible for staying highly engaged with product sprint ceremonies

  • Track, manage and report on automation progress and goals

• Industry Trends and Continuous Improvement

  • Stays current with automation industry trends and technologies that will impact the business

About You

You’re a good fit for the role of Automation QA Engineer if you have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Quality Assurance

• Proficiency in writing clean, modular, reusable code (Java and Python)

• Comprehensive understanding of test methodologies and techniques

• Experience working in agile development environment

• Experience with Backend and Frontend testing and automation

• Have a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach 

• Ability to achieve results with broad performance guidelines

• Ability to handle a variety of activities simultaneously and to adapt to often changing priorities in accordance with organizational needs

• Ability to devote high levels of effort and to work under tight deadlines

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance

• U.S. Citizenship essential to comply with government contract/agency or department of Federal Government requirements

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we