Senior Automation Engineer

This role offers a short term contract employment opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing, creating, and executing automated test suites for multiple applications under supervision from team leads.
• Maintaining and evolving the master automated regression test suite.
• Setting up, maintaining, and administering tools used by the testing team.
• Participating in the entire testing project lifecycle from requirements to test executions.
• Developing plans, procedures, and programs to monitor and evaluate the accuracy and reliability of the system.
• Actively communicating testing status, including schedule risks, issues, defects, and potential impact.
• Providing engineering support for testing approach design tools on projects of peers.
• Troubleshooting issues by researching symptoms, analyzing impact, and implementing solutions.
• Collaborating with Quality Assurance analysts to plan, develop, and maintain automation regressions and performance test suites.
• Designing, writing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts for the Bidding and Trading product group.
• Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or a related field
• Proficient in Java, JavaScript, and SQL programming languages
• Extensive experience in automation engineering is essential
• Familiarity with GitHub and GIT for version control
• Strong knowledge in Agile methodology and Quality Assurance
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is advantageous
• Ability to design, plan, and execute automation procedures
• Proven experience in troubleshooting and defect management
• Proficient in research analysis and specification writing
• Experience in training and supervising team members is beneficial
• Knowledge of human resources administration and planning processes is a plus
• Ability to handle laptop hardware issues is advantageous
• Familiarity with trading systems and platforms is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and planning abilities
• Must possess a proactive approach to problem-solving
• A firm grasp of modern technology and digital platforms.