Senior QA Engineer at Cadent (Philadelphia, PA)

Cadent powers the evolution of TV brand advertising. We provide marketers, agencies, operators, and media owners with data-driven solutions for buying and selling TV advertising. By connecting brands with opportunities across national inventory sourcescable, broadcast, and digital mediaour technology improves efficiencies and boosts the results of linear, addressable, and cross-screen campaigns.

The Sr. QA Automation Engineer is involved in the entire software development process to ensure the quality of the final product. This can include processes such as developing test strategies, plans and scripts for automated tests. In addition, the Sr. QA Automation engineer also analyzes the test results, identifies defects and communicates them to the team and is able to offer suggestions for process improvement.

Duties/Responsibilities:

·         Develops and executes a complete test automation strategy for assigned products and features including verification of functionality, performance, security and scalability.

·         Develop software test automation process.

·         Design, build and execute automated test scripts for web-based applications based on software requirements and functional specifications.

·         Should be able to set up and maintain automation framework independently using code writing abilities or using off the shelf automated testing solutions.

·         Should be able to integrate the QA automation with the CI/CD and automated build processes.

·         Should be an expert in API testing using Postman and Soap UI.

·         Should be able to analyze and define the scope of automated testing in order to deliver the quality product in lesser time.

·         Should be able to guide and train peers to execute and maintain the automation test scripts.

·         Identify areas where test automation will improve software development process.

·         Assist in all aspects of QA testing including: System (functional and non-functional), Integration, Regression, Smoke, Exploratory, Performance, Data verification and Acceptance testing.

·         Continuously streamline and improve the testing life cycle to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting are effective and coordinated.

·         Communicate QA results, risks and project status to management team as well as other stake holders.

·         Identify product defects, tracks and reports them to QA management and development team.

·         Interacts closely with developers, PMO and IT offering suggestions and ideas for improving the quality of products.

·         Analyze testing results to enhance future test plans and scenarios. (Including metrics and benchmarks to gauge improvement).

Requirements:

·         A highly motivated individual with a degree in computer science, general knowledge of Agile methodology, QA principles and techniques with specific knowledge of test automation.

·         5-8 plus years of experience in automated software testing.

·         Has experience working in Agile environment.

·         Excellent written and oral communication skills.

·         Good understanding of how to structure automated test cases and identify the test cases suited for automation.

·         Must manage multiple projects simultaneously.

·         Must become a subject matter expert for the company systems.

Technical Skills:

Sr. QA automation engineer must have hands on experience in:

-         C# & Potentially JAVA

-         Selenium

-         Specflow

-         API testing (Postman & Soap UI)

-         MS SQL Server

-         MS Visual Studio

-         Experience in Git, Jenkins, Docker, and Amazon Web Services preferred.

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