SQA DevOps Test Engineer - Hybrid Position

Posted 23 May 2022
Location Oklahoma City, United States of America
Job type Full Time
DisciplineIT
Reference7501

Job Description

SQA DevOps Test Engineer - Hybrid Position

Location:  Oklahoma City, OK

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop and establish the specifications and requirements of automated testing solutions to meet Paycom goals for automated testing within CI/CD.

  • Design, develop and implement automated test systems for applications.

  • Collaborate with Development, Software Quality Assurance, and DevOps teams to analyze and use quality feedback and data to improve automated testing processes.

  • Assess existing automated testing and suggest opportunities for improvement.

  • Design and implement test automation strategy.

  • Create automation test plans and get approvals.

  • Recommend test automation tools and configure DevOps automated test environment elements.

  • Integrate automated tests with CI/CD tools and pipeline. (i.e. GitLab)

  • Create, organize, and manage test automation standards and other resources.

  • Create, update, and maintain automated UI test.

  • Create, update, and maintain automated API tests.

  • Collaborate with DevOps team to extend existing test automation frameworks and tools.

  • Triage, troubleshoot, and document defects.

  • Document SQA (or quality assurance) procedures for team.

  • Work closely with engineering and Software Quality Assurance to manage and improve the development pipeline.

  • Perform and write automated functional, system, regression, and integration tests.

  • Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams and leadership.

  • Prepare automation test plans and train Development, Software Quality Assurance and DevOps team members in standard work for operating the automated test systems.

  • Coach, train, mentor and review work items of less experienced team members.


Education/Certification:

  • Bachelor degree required

    • Degree in the following areas preferred: MIS, Info Sys, Computer Science, or related fields

Experience:

  • 2+ years of experience configuring Test Automation within CI/CD pipeline

  • Certified DevOps Quality Assurance (Test) Engineer (DevOps-QA)  is a Plus 


Skills/Abilities:

  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while contributing to overall company success

  • Must have experience working in an agile SDLC environment

  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and other related container/Cloud Native Technologies (CNCF)

  • Experience using SCM tools like Gitlab or Bitbucket

  • Using tools to replace manual processes with repeatable automation

  • Full understanding of development release cycle process

  • Decision making ability

  • Written and oral communication skills

  • Organizational planning skills with the ability to understand business and client needs

  • Collaborating with diverse technical teams to hold them accountable for RCAs and iterative improvement

  • Giving bold and clear directions to skilled technical resources

  • Ability to drive business decisions using technical insights


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2+ years of experience with PHP programming language

  • 2+ years of experience with Selenium WebDriver

  • 2+ years of experience with PHPUnit

  • 2+ years of experience with SQL

  • 1+ years of experience with RestAssured or equivalent API/contract-based testing framework

  • 1+ years of experience with GitLab