Senior Automation Engineer

 

 

Who we are...

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities. 

 

Culture 

 

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

Verra Mobility is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to contribute to the development and quality of our future and existing technology products. This position will participate in designing and developing automated solutions for web-based applications and windows services while working and mentoring other testing team-members sharing knowledge and experience to help enhance QA competency. To be successful in this role, you must display robust interpersonal skills, have a high aptitude for technical learning. Be responsible for ensuring that software products meet established quality standards. Possess a unique set of traits, leadership skills, and characteristics that set you apart in this role. Making decisions impacting the overall quality and direction of the testing process.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and designing detailed test cases and procedures from requirement specifications.
• Design, develop and implement and review new automated solutions on applications and repeatable testing for existing products.
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture and principles, ability to perform manual and automated tests.
• Identify areas for process improvement within the QA team or testing methodologies and propose innovative solutions.
• Define testing strategies and methodologies for complex systems.
• Mentor and guide junior team members.
• Ensure all product releases meet or exceed defined quality goals and meets project timelines.
• Develop with Java and JavaScript or equivalent language with any automation frameworks like Playwright and Cypress.
• Ensure optimal performance of team members.
• Serve as an escalation point in case of testing issues.
• Maintain open, transparent and friendly team atmosphere.
• Work with operations, development, and solution architect teams to create compelling business case including savings implementation and run costs estimate.
• Perform test automation assessments and propose most suitable test automation strategies (including CI/CD).
• Based on industry trends, modern techniques and tools maintain and develop training roadmap and artifacts for wide spectrum of technologies.
• Automate the mechanisms for pulling together the latest releases of ADO and GitHub with usable solution demo data.
• Design, build, and execute Web, API, Backend test scripts by translating manual regression test cases into automated test scripts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of quality assurance experience focused on software and web-based application testing and involved in writing test cases and test plans.
• Ability to work with global teams with different time zone.
• Experience using QA testing tools like ADO, Cucumber, CI/CD tools (Bamboo).
• Hands on experience in Cucumber framework with Java and/or JavaScript.
• Experience with Iterative Development in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Experience of automation using the following Tech stack -JavaScript, AWS, Postgres DB, Azure DevOps, Kafka, API Gateway, Lambda, Hasura, Graph QL.
• Ability to conduct functional testing, regression testing, system-level integration testing, end-to-end testing, and acceptance testing.
• In-depth understanding of software development processes and methodologies including their documentation and creation.
• Knowledge and e