Test Automation Engineer

Test Automation Engineer

Our client, an industry leader in telecommunications, has an excellent opportunity for a Test Automation Engineer to work on a 12+ month contract opportunity. Work will be 4 days per week onsite in Englewood, CO. The Test Automation Engineer will be responsible for developing, modifying, enhancing, and implementing test automation software designed to support business initiatives. You will work in all phases of projects, which are of considerable complexity, and require strong knowledge of development and testing technologies and principles and design patterns.

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the wireless engineering organization, you'll be required to work in an agile team environment where professional respect and communication is key.
• Because we work on the cutting edge of a lot of technologies, we need someone who is a creative problem solver, resourceful in getting things done, and productive working independently or collaboratively.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts using Python, Behave (Gherkin), and modern Python packaging tools.
• Develop, maintain, and publish custom Python libraries to internal PyPi registries, ensuring code quality and compliance with PEP 8 standards (using tools such as Black).
• Contribute to knowledge tools and communities and ensure project learning's are documented and shared.
• Practice Test-driven development along with development peers in writing software and building products.
• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Provide production support for software products used by Mobile Customers.

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years overall automated software testing experience
• 5+ years python development experience
• 3+ years writing, executing and reporting of manual test plans
• 3+ years web services testing experience using REST, JSON, XML
• 2+ experience with markdown and reporting tools
• 2+ years of API testing experience (postman / newman / SoapUI)
• 1+ years SQL DB (MySql, Postgres)

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent