Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Connection•Merrimack, NH

1d•$95,000 - $122,500

About The Position

Overview What We Do We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department. Who We Are Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others. Why You Should Join Us You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional wellbeing. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and care time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days. Because of the possibility for fraudulent job postings on many popular job boards, please be advised that Connection will never offer a position of employment without a complete interview process and communication with a “live person". Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. Responsibilities Under general supervision of the Director, Quality Assurance Services, the Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer supports and participates in software quality assurance activities with early planning and execution of automation testing across a diverse integration of ERP, Web E-Commerce and CRM applications. The versatile Sr QA Automation Engineer works independently or within an automation team. The Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer participates in automation strategy, planning, implementation and execution throughout the lifecycle of product change. The Sr QA Automation Engineer represents discipline for established process while promoting continued process improvement. Where applicable, this position assures departmental processes are performed in compliance with applicable Sarbanes-Oxley controls. Evolves automation framework, supporting libraries/functions and develops automation code to support testing across a diverse integration of ERP, Web E-Commerce and CRM applications. Identifies and develops tools in support of business partner needs. Collaborates with manual QA test team, business partners/analyst, project management and development to drive and manage quality assurance automation strategy and efforts. Creates detailed test strategy and plans against test requirements. Drives the requirements/design reviews and QA strategy meetings. Establishes and maintains best practices for software automation development. Evaluates current processes, defines development best practices and enhanced approaches as appropriate. Employees are required to be present to perform the functions of this position.

Requirements

6+ years SQL server / Oracle query creation and execution
6+ years of Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel
6+ years Database validation experience
Experience supporting and utilizing application lifecycle management software
Experience working within Windows operating system
Experience working in cloud environments
Experience in API automation and validation for microservices architecture
Experience with test management tools Zephyr or equivalent
Strong experience in modern UI automation
Functional Automation
6+ years’ experience with functional automation principles – UFT One or equivalent
Experience with development of scalable, modular automated test scripts (data driven framework) utilizing reusable functions, action libraries, exception handling and perform management of object repositories.
Experience with feature branching, PR review, merge governance
Strong knowledge of CI/CD implementation and pipeline orchestration
Load/Performance
6+ years’ experience with load and performance automation principles - LoadRunner or equivalent
Applied experience and analysis in designing, creating, maintaining, and executing performance scripts and log defects in order to recommend better solutions.
Business Experience with complex ERP, CRM, BPM and eCommerce applications with ability to identify automation strategy and plans from manual testcases and application use
Comprehensive knowledge of Quality Assurance principles and process (including Agile and Waterfall best practices) with ability to integrate automation test suites into project development process
Comprehensive knowledge of development lifecycles and coding practices
Comprehensive knowledge of logic/code flow
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills required
Organized state of mind with ability to regularly operate under deadlines which may be subject to a heavy workload
Adaptability with capacity to work in a fast-paced organization
Proactive mindset with continuous improvement focus

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of IIS based e-commerce websites and Commerce server.
Web eCommerce: Integrated 3rd Party and internal solutions experience: Search Engines Content Management PCI/Credit Card Management Product Information Management (PIM) Order Fulfillment/ERP integration Role Based Security / Web Security
Content Delivery Product availability and sourcing CRM/ERP integration

Responsibilities

Supports and participates in software quality assurance activities with early planning and execution of automation testing across a diverse integration of ERP, Web E-Commerce and CRM applications.
Participates in automation strategy, planning, implementation and execution throughout the lifecycle of product change.
Represents discipline for established process while promoting continued process improvement.
Assures departmental processes are performed in compliance with applicable Sarbanes-Oxley controls.
Evolves automation framework, supporting libraries/functions and develops automation code to support testing across a diverse integration of ERP, Web E-Commerce and CRM applications.
Identifies and develops tools in support of business partner needs.
Collaborates with manual QA test team, business partners/analyst, project management and development to drive and manage quality assurance automation strategy and efforts.
Creates detailed test strategy and plans against test requirements.
Drives the requirements/design reviews and QA strategy meetings.
Establishes and maintains best practices for software automation development.
Evaluates current processes, defines development best practices and enhanced approaches as appropriate.
Employees are required to be present to perform the functions of this position.