QA Automation Engineer

Job Description: QA Automation Engineer

Our Team:

Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design and grit.

Our Product Groups:

Individual Investor – building products like Morningstar.com and mobile apps for individuals like yourself Institutional Investor – developing some of our flagship products like Morningstar Direct for institutional investors and our Advisor products for financial advisors Workplace – this is where we build and provide our hosted digital advice platform for Retirement plans, 401K’s, etc. (what some call robo-advisors) Data – this is the heart of Morningstar where all data is sourced, collected, transformed, calculated and distributed across the world.

The Role:

At Morningstar, empowering investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for software engineers who are experienced in QA to join our team and work closely with developers, product managers, operations, and quality assurance teams to build and execute automated test scripts. Morningstar is a technology agnostic company, and as an engineer focused on QA Automation you may be working on set of curated, interactive views that are geared towards user productivity across the individual investor, advisor, and institutional segments globally and extract the full value of Morningstar’s data and editorial perspective. Every day, you’ll work with team members across disciplines developing products for investors and advisers. You’ll interact daily with our product managers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. We want to work with other engineers who bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities. These positions are based in our Mumbai office.

Responsibilities

• Define & manage Product Requirements and Test Plan Matrix
• Perform Quality activities- test cases creation, manual testing, automation etc.
• Build test automation suites to be used by development and manual test engineers.
• Analyze user requirements and product architecture to derive testing requirements.
• Build, execute, and debug automated functional and back-end tests.
• Diagnose problems and report bugs and enhancements to Development.
• Ensure efficient and stable builds in contentious integration environment.
• Work with development and functional QA teams to make decisions around what to automate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent plus a minimum of 4 years of working experience with at least 2 years in Automation Testing using Selenium RC or Web driver.
• Strong experience with OO programming and concepts.
• Hands on experience in XML, Java, JUnit/TestNG, Jenkins, Selenium, SoapUI/ Postman, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Git
• Full Software Testing Lifecycle experience - creation of test cases, performing system, regression and performance testing.
• Developing and configuring automated regression tests using test management tools.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of software quality assurance practice.
• Knowledge on TDD, continuous integration, and code review practice is strongly desired.
• Proficiency with Agile Methodologies such as XP and Scrum and JIRA.
• Understanding of CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Understanding of REST API
• Understanding of mitigation of web applications security vulnerabilities as covered by OWASP Top 10.
• Strong awareness of activities in the open source world and contributing back to open source is a big plus.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.