QA Automation Engineer

About Alexa Translations

Alexa Translations provides translation services in the legal, financial, and securities sectors by leveraging proprietary A.I. technology and a team of highly specialized linguistic experts. Unmatched in speed and quality, our machine translation engine is best-in-class and specifically trained for the French-Canadian market. If that wasn’t enough, our technology is backed by two decades of award-winning client service.

Objectives of this Role

• Grow existing platform and network capabilities to handle massive growth, enabling the generation of insights and data products on all internal and external data via self-serve computing, reporting solutions, and interactive querying
• Examine existing systems, identifying flaws and creating solutions to improve service uptime and time-to-resolve through monitoring and automated remediation 
• Plan and execute full software development life cycles (SDLC) for each assigned project, adhering to company standards and expectations
• Develop, execute and maintain software and scripts to automate testing for all Alexa Translations applications. 
• Serve as a customer advocate through helping to define product functionality and by taking ownership of product quality. 
• Create test tools and automated test suites that are robust, performant and reusable, allowing our Agile teams to deliver high-quality releases more efficiently.
• Collaborate with QA, dev, product and other cross-functional groups to deliver high-quality products 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SCRUM teams from the start of a sprint to deliver best-in-class technical solutions
• Create, optimize, and refactor automated test scripts for legacy, client-server and web applications
• Monitor automation processes and prepare defect status reports
• Develop test scenarios based on business requirements and designs
• Write automation and perform Web, API, UI, functional, regression, smoke, black box, load, performance and end-to-end testing
• Write and/or modify SQL queries to perform database validations
• Work with functional teams in reducing error rates and perform root cause analysis of errors/trends
• Partner with automation engineers to create a unified approach to automation across the team.
• Architect maintainable and extendable automated test frameworks and tools using scripting language(s) to test various product APIs as well as GUI elements.
• Troubleshoot defects in existing code.
• Work with support, stakeholders and developers to aid in replication of software defects.
• Automate testing of defects and assist with the maintenance of the Regression Test suite.
• Collaborate as part of a development team by providing a customer viewpoint
• Make suggestions/contributions for the improvement of software testing/quality
• Contribute in meetings, Scrums, and other inter-team interaction.
• Provide software and hardware capability assessments to outside departments.
• Research and make recommendations to the group regarding new technology available and its proper application.

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years software QA testing experience.
• Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Programming, Mathematics/Analytics or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in Software QA Automation experience.
• Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and Python.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Familiarity with version control, defect tracking, and test management tools (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA).
• Experience with web application testing and tools such as TestComplete.
• Experience with API testing and tools such as REST Assured.
• Experience with performance testing and tools such as JMeter.
• Knowledge of SQL databases.
• Willingness to work in the Eastern time zone remotely.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the following technologies:
  • Text processing, Regular Expressions, knowledge of processing variety of documents
  • CAT Tools such as: memoQ, SDL, Memsource
• Desire to continue to grow professional capabilities with ongoing training and educational opportunities
• AWS Cloud Applications and Services Testing
• Fluent in Arabic, French or other languages.