Test Automation Lead Job Description
Test automation lead
provides application architecture expertise as it relates to the development and integration of applications, security, middleware, services, database design, development methodologies, and tools for all systems and applications within the SAP Environment.
Test Automation Lead Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Identifying, understanding, recommending and implementing technical best practices in terms of tools, processes, and work plans within a specific application vertical for continuous integration and delivery
Learn - Understand what our customers and competitors are doing and why
Streamline processes – Identify and document best practices that our teams rely on to release with the highest quality and on schedule
Own schedules – Develop schedules and own all commitments and operational plans
Become and remain proficient in all programs necessary to perform the everyday duties of this position
Suggest test process improvements based on incident trends
Monitor and control tests being performed on all projects under the responsible program portfolio
Provides leadership in a matrix environment - which may or may not include direct reports
You will be the key person leading quality, test design and delivery of high quality systems
Developing an end to end automation strategy in line with the strategic vision and product roadmap
Test Automation Lead Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Test Automation Lead
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISTQB, ISEB, QA, QAI, SAFE, CTFL, CSTP, TQL, AE1, AS2
Education for Test Automation Lead
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the test automation lead job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Technical, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, Computer Engineering, Science, Technology
Skills for Test Automation Lead
Desired skills for test automation lead include:
Application
Microsoft Office products
SQL Database design and implementation
Unreal engine/scripting
Video game development industry
Agile environment
Application Development Lifecycle and concepts
Architecture
Automated test tools for online applications Selenium
But not mandatory
Desired experience for test automation lead includes:
Mobile testing is a plus
ISEB / ISTQB certified or significant, demonstrable professional testing experience with automation
Experience building and executing automated scripts or experience with automation tools FitNesse, Appium, RSpec, Selenium/Webdriver, Capybara
Proficiency in defect tracking and test case management software systems
Development/scripting experience with of the following – Java, C#, Selenium, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Shell Scripting, Python
A minimum of 8 years’ experience as a lead or senior program manager, product manager, or similar working on widely used customer-facing products or applications
Test Automation Lead Examples
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Test Automation Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a test automation lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for test automation lead
- Interact with test team and requirements team spread across geographies, to arrive at test automation design and strategy with available (in house) tools
- Designs and implements test automation code
- Leads a team of junior engineers
- Interact with test team, requirements team spread across geographies, and arrives at the test automation design
- Records, processes, and analyses data with PC based tools and test instrumentation
- Good experience of integrating systems together successfully is essential
- Experience working with automated testing is essential
- Previous experience of shipping games is a plus
- Experience of professional programming is essential
- Help establish, document and enforce standards, procedures, and specifications for test automation frameworks
Qualifications for test automation lead
- Proficient in Code quality tools
- Fundamental knowledge of testing methodology (V Model, Waterfall, Agile ) and testing trends
- 3 Years’ experience with hands on automation
- Advanced experience in using automation tool – Selenium
- Mainframe testing using Selenium is a MUST
- Experience preferably in Payments
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a test automation lead. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for test automation lead
- Build relationships with relevant teams across the wider organisation to both support and shape future strategy and direction
- Provide professional project planning and estimation in keeping with department standards for functional automation aspects of projects
- Hands on with Performance scripting using HP Load runner Tool
- Performance, load, concurrent user and stress testing development, execution and publishing results
- Extensive troubleshooting in distributed/High Availability environments
- Design and build intelligent test systems that can simulate production load traffic
- Evaluate system performance establishing baselines and identifying relative change on a build / release basis and potentially per customer basis
- Perform capacity, scenario, and endurance tests
- Analyse scalability, throughput and load testing metrics against test servers
- Compare and contrast system performance with varying levels of physical resources (RAM, CPU cores, Disk caches, Network) and compute nodes
Qualifications for test automation lead
- Advanced knowledge of OOAD with working knowledge of a OOP based programming languages (C#) and a scripting language is must
- Good knowledge on communication protocols with backend support systems
- Good knowledge on software designed for allowing incremental functionality upgrades
- Ability to work with all the stakeholders spread across geographies to achieve the desired results
- Avid follower of the latest technology and products in Automotive Infotainment and Consumer electronics
- Experience implementing and adapting Unit Testing frameworks such as NUnit, TestNG, mocking solutions
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of test automation lead. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for test automation lead
- Improve the test frameworks, tools and technologies used by the organization to maintain a high quality bar
- Work with Development, Test and Product Management to design and implement tests and validation strategies
- Execute and manage test cases and results
- Create, execute and troubleshoot automated test scenarios across our systems
- Communicate and report a Test Director on the customer's side
- Communication with the a US-based customer for requirements analysis, sprint planning, estimations, retrospectives
- Customizing automation tool by .NET technologies
- Leading team of 4 junior engineers
- Plan and document end-to-end Quality and Testing strategies in line with company standards
- Participate in project planning meetings and requirement elaborations, estimate, and commit to QA deliverables
Qualifications for test automation lead
- Experience with networking protocols including IP, UDP, TCP & Layer 2/3
- Understanding of latest innovations, industrial trends, and emerging technologies in software testing and test automation
- Experience with industrial automation tools and scripting languages such as TCL, Python, Perl, QTP/Selenium and REST
- Must have System scale testing and System performance characterization experience
- Experience with offshore/onshore working model and demonstrated successful results in setting up test/test automation projects offshore
- Possess long-term career path of hands-on technical leadership in addition to management role
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Test Automation Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of test automation lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for test automation lead
- Overseeing the day to day activities of the software testing team and be fully responsible for testing of Releases
- Involved in discussions with developers, QA analysts, business analysts and project managers and be responsible for progress/issue reporting
- Undertake the QA activities (test planning and test execution)
- Work in a Scrum team of 6-7 people in a 2 week sprint cycle
- Test new User Stories (including requirements inspection, test cases creation, basic manual testing, raising of defects)
- Automate test cases for the new User Stories
- Setup new plans in TeamCity to run test sets for sprint/release branches
- Participate in the Regression testing for Releases (perform health checks, create new items in Rally for all defects found, verify those defects once they are fixed, cover those scenarios with automated test cases)
- Reproduce and document production bugs
- Carrying out all aspects of the test lifecycle including detailed manual testing of new functionality and regression testing of existing functionality
Qualifications for test automation lead
- Generate standard reports from the automation suite
- Must have experience on various test automation tools and HP UFT , Selenium , Seetest , Sikuli,etc and scripting
- Experience in Test Case and Defect Management system
- Expertise in Provisioning system
- Strong “hands on” experience with developing a test automation framework
- Infrastructure experience including Docker, Chef, Puppet, IBM Bluemix, AWS, CloudFormation, OpenStack, Consul, Nginx, Mesosphere, Terraform, Atlas, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana Hubot, Dynatrace, NewRelic
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Test Automation Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a test automation lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for test automation lead
- Understand architecture design and peak volume transfer
- Hands on experience of using UFT/QTP & OATS Test tools for Test Automation along with an in depth knowledge of test automation and tool development methodology
- Technical Experience of Oracle ERP/EBS and JAVA/C/VB programming skills
- Work with internal partners to understand their environments their end customer’s use of our systems when deployed into Cloud and Engineered Systems environments
- Architect improvements to the current test automation to better align with Cloud-based use models
- Drive implementation of these improvements, working with other members of the x86 team across multiple locations
- Provide subject matter expertise for Cloud operational models around provisioning, testing, monitoring and deploying to end customers across IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS use models
- Develop test automation using Python (modifying existing automation, creating new libraries and scripts)
- Influence test strategies across teams
- Investigate and drive found problems to resolution
Qualifications for test automation lead
- Strong experience in HP QTP, ALM, Cucumber, Selenium, Java and Java Script
- Hands on Experience in developing, debugging and enhancing automation scripts
- Skilled Exploratory Tester
- Knowledge of Automation Framework (Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, Hybrid )
- SDLC and STLC, various Test Phases
- Conceptual and applied knowledge of functional testing techniques and approaches