Senior Validation & Verification Engineer M/F/D

Position Purpose/Summary

• Develop Test Automation framework and scripts, enable DevSecOps adoption
• Perform Validation testing tools and applications for Fire products

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Responsibilities will include working with our Engineering, Offering and Architects to plan, design, develop and execute system tests, test automation and performance test solutions.
• Understand end user scenarios and contribute to requirements and design reviews
• Understand/contribute to Acceptance Criteria and test case development for stories and verify the product/system against the same
• Monitor release quality criteria and communicate unbiased product quality view to stakeholders to enable quality release of the product/system
• Creation and implementation of Automation Strategies and Frameworks.
• Defining automated test scripts using predefined test cases or scenarios.
• Maintenance of existing product test scripts.
• Developing productivity improvement tools.
• Participating in application design to ensure automation readiness.
• Ensure automated tests are tied into CI & CD process to enable continuous testing across environments.
• Research and stay current on software test automation methodologies and best practices.
• Constantly evaluate test automation strategy and approach for Next Gen technologies like SaaS/Cloud, Mobile, Wireless, Database/SQL, and Virtualization.
• Mentor project team members on proper selection, design and implementation of various Test Automation Frameworks, Tools and Strategies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand and contribute to Acceptance Criteria and test case development for stories to verify the product or the system
• Creation and implementation of Automation Strategy and Framework.
• Maintenance of existing product test scripts.
• Developing productivity improvement tools.
• Good understanding of DevOps process, thereby enablement of automated build release process and integration of automated testing
• Research and stay current on software test automation methodologies and best practices.
• Mentor project team members on proper selection, design and implementation of various Test Automation Frameworks, Tools and Strategies.

Education / Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor or Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Electronics
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in Testing and Test Automation planning, design and development.

Technical Skills

• Should have good understanding of Scaled Agile methodologies
• Exposure to Acceptance Test Driven development and testing for Web, Mobile Applications is a must.
• Should have exposure to test management, defect tracking, performance test tools
• Exposure to all stages of the software lifecycle including requirements gathering, documentation (approach requirements, functional specification, detailed design).
• Exposure to the various stages of software quality assurance including Black Box testing, White Box testing, performance, stress and load testing, requirements analysis, test planning, reporting/control and root cause analysis.
• Strong knowledge in creating of Automation Strategies and Frameworks.
• Coding experience in Java / C#.
• Scripting languages –Python
• Hands-on experience in using automation tools is must (Selenium, Appium, Test Complete…)
• Experience in Web services and API testing.
• Experience in automating Mobile applications & Web Applications
• Window Mobile /Android/iOS Apps.
• Working experience with SQL/Oracle databases & XML files operations.

Value added skills

• Knowledge on Fire Alarm Control Panels (FACP).
• Knowledge Networking
• Innovations and patents