Ensure best in class quality assurance of security solutions and platforms for American Express customers from functional, security and stability perspective. To coordinate, execute, document, and report all testing and post install validation activities in support of the overall Identity and Access Management Programs quality assurance process. Drive operational experience through delivery of automated test and validation processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides domain expertise to engineers on Automation, Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and processes, crafts and executes test scripts, assists in preparation of test strategies, sets up and maintains test data environments as well as logs results.
- Functions as a platform SME who drives quality and automation strategy at application level, identifies new opportunities and drives Software Engineers to deliver the highest quality code.
- Executes against the test and automation strategy defined at the portfolio level.
- Works with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via manual and automated testing.
- Delivers on capabilities for the portfolio automation strategy.
- Develop the test cases thriving for 100% test automation.
- Involved in the review of the user story backlog and requirements specifications for completeness and weaknesses in function, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security and compliance testing, and provides recommendations Plans and defines testing approach, providing advice on prioritization of testing activity in support of identified risks in project schedules or test scenarios.
- Develops test plans, testing resource requirements, and overall scheduling of testing tasks.
- Drives the development automation and testing is a CD/CI environment.
- Develops manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements.
- Executes test cases/scripts to ensure delivery of quality software applications, including Systems Integration, Regression, and Performance Testing.
- Generates test data to support the requirements and test case for various test phases.
- Builds and maintains CI/CD Automation process and execution.
- Responsible for handling the definition, implementation, and integration of quality principles into the design and development of software and IT processes for the team.
- Monitors and tracks resolution of defects, coordinating with scrum teams in order to prevent, report, and resolve them.
- Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status.
- Recognizes opportunities to adopt creative testing technologies and techniques.
- Looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
- Automation testing tools/technologies - Rally, Selenium, TestNG, Maven, JMeter, Jenkins, and Sauce Labs.
Skills Qualifications:
- 4 to 8 years of experience in Technology, with an emphasis on QA, and confirmed ability in writing test cases, running functional, automated, or performance tests, and managing defects.
- Experience in TDD, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing.
- Test Automation experience of functional, security and solution/system level tests
- Experience in Automation Testing Tools and Technologies, RESTful APIs and Web Applications using Java, Rally, Maven, Junit, TestNG, Eclipse IDE, JMeter, Jenkins, Selenium, Shell/Perl/Python, and Sauce Labs.
- Experience with Agile, Agile at scale (SAFe), other rapid application development methods, and Waterfall SDLC.
- Ability to deliver in a Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) environment.
- Experience with coding skills across a variety of platforms is a plus. Any of the following test certifications - QAI, ASQ, IIST, ISEB, ISTQB - are a plus.
- Learns and applies new technologies and techniques. Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry.
- Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives. Influences team members with creative changes and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrates analytical thinking, problem solving and adaptive communication.
- Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, with relevant work experience.
