Automation QA Engineer

Stellantis Financial Services (SFS) is the new captive finance company for one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider with iconic brands including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2move and Leasys.

Our exciting growth provides opportunities to advance your career as we successfully lead products and services from a small to midsize company in just a few years. Join our world class team and culture and contribute to our core mission which is enhancing our customer's experience.

Position Summary:

The Automation QA Engineer is responsible for defining, developing, executing, and maintaining automated test environments while documenting test results and best practices. Additionally, this role supports the software development team by analyzing and debugging identified software issues to ensure optimal performance and quality.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement QA test plans and test matrices
• Preparation, execution and documentation for software component testing (both manual and automated testing).
• Integration, functional and non-functional testing based on component level.
• Analyzing, reproducing, and reporting component defects and special situations.
• Provide bug reports to the development engineers and work directly with development engineers to troubleshoot potential problem areas
• Design and implement test harnesses (test automation frameworks) and integrate this to build and release frameworks
• Automation of recurring test cases in a test scripting tool (including API testing)
• Participate in review activities (project plans, requirement, design and test case) to assume joint responsibility with other team members on quality and schedule
• Ensure that all above activities are conducted consistently and in accordance with company policies and procedures
• Other testing activities: system, usability, performance and regression testing.
• Estimation and planning.
• Research functionality and implementation of current and future testing techniques and technologies
• Participate in departmental improvement and innovation processes to deliver projects that enhance project/department performance to enable positive business results.
• All other duties assigned.

Qualifications and Competencies: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Experience
  • A minimum of five years of experience in software testing and test methodologies, including developing test cases, procedures, scripts, and reports, with hands-on implementation of these plans.

• Education –
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field of study or comparable job-related experience is preferred.

Skills Required:

• Taking lead in initiatives to address test approach & frameworks, and project problem solving/decision making will be required
• Experience in mobile device testing a plus (iOS, Android, etc.)
• Experience in testing and designing automation frameworks (selenium, appium, etc.)
• Experience with source repository systems (git, subversion, etc.)
• Experience with defect tracking systems (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.)
• Experience in different programming languages Java, C#, Ruby, Python. Must be able to read and understand the code generated by the software engineers.

• Travel - 10% travel required
• Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to one of the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abili