Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing test strategy and automation estimates. Develop, document, and maintain test strategy and test scenarios. Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests. Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts. Partner with developers to ensure all areas of application are fully tested and find technical solutions for test automation. Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments, CI-CD pipelines and to be used by NOC teams. Regularly execute, maintain and upkeep automated test suites and analyze results to identify cause for failures. Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of fix, and required automation updates. Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new production releases. Work with cross team and release management to manage dev, QA, and production release of software. Perform exploratory testing to understand feature and how it is implemented; find additional or unexpected behavior; and refine and define additional test cases for feature. Contribute to QA automation framework using industry standard tools and approaches. Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code. Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those.
