Senior Digital Innovation Engineer - QA automation

Senior Digital Innovation Engineer – QA

Location : Chennai, India

Required Language : English

Employment Type : Full Time

Seniority Level : Mid - Senior Level

Travel : 10%

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman works proactively and collaboratively with its worldwide customers in pulp and paper, water treatment and leather industries to deliver exceptional service and innovative solutions to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment. Buckman is in the middle of a digital transformation of its businesses and focused on building the capabilities and tools in support of this.

Job Description

This position is responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated tests to ensure the quality and functionality of software applications. This role involves working closely with software developers, QA engineers, DevOps team and other stakeholders to identify test requirements and implement automated solutions to improve testing efficiency and coverage. This role will be reporting to QA Team Lead focusing on deploying automation framework solutions for Buckman’s proprietary application, Ackumen.

Test Planning: Develop and document test plans and test cases based on software requirements and technical specifications.

Determine the scope and objectives of testing for each project.

Test Execution: Conduct various types of testing, including functional, regression, integration, performance, usability, and security testing. Execute manual and automated tests to ensure software quality. Identify, record, document, and track bugs.

Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.

Automation: Develop automated test scripts to improve efficiency and coverage of testing. Maintain and update existing automation scripts.

Collaboration: Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand product functionality and ensure quality. Participate in sprint planning and review meetings. Communicate testing progress, results, and quality metrics to stakeholders.

Documentation: Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases. Document testing phases and defects. Provide documentation on all phases of QA processes.

Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with new testing tools and test strategies. Implement process improvements to enhance product quality. Provide feedback and recommendations to improve the development process.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a similar field

Must have 6+ years' experience as a Quality Assurance engineer

Must be well versed in QA processes – like test plan reviews, executions, defect raising/tracking, regressions, etc

Must have 4+ years' experience in writing automation scripts and/or automation frameworks

Must have very good coding skills in Python

Must have prior experience in REST API Testing and automation

Prior experience in any of the following automation frameworks is an advantage – Selenium, pyTest, Cypress, Robot

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in UI automation is an advantage

Knowledge in configuring automation pipeline is an added bonus

Prior experience building dashboards in Html/react/python and/or PowerBI is an advantage

Experience working with global stakeholders

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