QA Automation Engineer

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating, optimizing and revolutionizing the way people, vehicles and things move through the world. Our full suite of industry-defining solutions and services put innovation, automation and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer, more efficient and more productive. With more than 3,500 dedicated employees in 15 countries, we deliver leading mobile technology platforms and solutions.

 

As a SAAS leader, we know our talent is the most important component of our success. We hire top talent and empower them to do their best work. As a division of Verizon, we combine the fun and excitement of a startup environment with the resources, operational excellence, and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

What you’ll be doing…

Working in a hybrid model at our Florence office, you will be part of a cross-functional engineering team delivering key features for our award-winning SAAS offering, Reveal. As a QA engineer you will be working directly with UX, BA and full stack engineers to deliver coded automated tests for browser and mobile based applications in a CI/CD environment, following Kanban methodologies. 

Responsibilities:

• Coded automation testing

• Test case development based on functional and technical requirements 

• Set up and monitoring of automation test suites as part of CI/CD pipeline 

• Working with product and engineering team members defining and managing feature backlogs 

• Maintaining bug backlogs - triaging and prioritising with stakeholders  

• Advocate for QA and defining/maintaining quality standards within your team 

What we’re looking for... 

General Experience 

• Experience in software development 

• Strong experience in agile/lean methodologies and processes (ideally Kanban or scrum)  leading process improvements and engineering disciplines 

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral - comfortable presenting to their team and wider groups 

• Experience working in larger project and team environments with product, application support and operations teams

• A passionate software developer with a strong interest in new and emerging technologies and the confidence to influence the technical direction on projects 

• Ability to influence colleagues through testing strategies and implementations

• Strong experience in Unit Testing 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline 

What we’re looking for...

• Strong understanding of testing fundamentals and best practices - development of test cases, edge case and boundary testing, smoke tests, regression tests and defining/testing non-functional application requirements 

• Understanding of Mobile and Web UI / Browser based testing on modern UI frameworks

• Experience using Selenium Web Driver 2/3 and Visual Studio delivering coded automation tests

• Experience developing test automation frameworks

• Experience in a CI/CD environment maintaining ‘green board’’ policies, and driving test coverage statistics and defect reporting 

• Understanding of Object Oriented/SOLID Design principles and practices and their application as design patterns in automated testing 

• Professional experience using mobile automation tools such as Appium.

• Cross browser testing experience

• Experience with Multi-Threading and parallel testing

• Strong SQL experience for data set up and verification - in high volume, high throughput environments 

• Experience with test case management tools such as Test Rail 

• Experience testing RESTful API architectures through code-based testing

• Hands-on experience testing Microservices or Service Oriented Architectures

• The ability to read and understand production code to aid in test generation process. 

• Experience managing defect backlogs and requirements management with tools such as JIRA

• Experience with GIT or related source control tools

Even better if you have…

• Advocate/ambassador of clean code practices and processes

• Demonstrated performance testing experience (JUnit, Loadrunner or other tools)

• Knowledge of Test Driven Development and Domain Driven Design 

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.