Senior Software Engineer - QA Automation - Chennai

The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical

• Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing automated test scripts 

experience with Selenium, Fitnesse and Java

• Ability to define and build Test/Automation strategies/Plans
• Able to build and contribute at framework level
• Experience with automated application build, deployment, and support using Maven and Ant
• Experience with performing version control and continuous integration of build, deploy, and test, using Jenkins, Stash
• Experience in API development.
• Experience in framework development and maintenance.
• Experience working with AWS is a big plus!
• Experience as a developer (e.g.- Java, Spring) a plus
• Encourage reuse
• Communicate effectively within team as well as with partners

Behavioral

• Strong communication – verbal and written
• Assertive and logical
• Interacts effectively with peers to resolve issues
• Proven success in a fast paced environment
• Ability to diagram and summarize design solutions comfortably to a broad and diverse population
• Ability to deal with ambiguity 
• Self-motivated with a high degree of intellectual curiosity
• Is flexible and can make adjustments to changes in operating environment
• Promotes positive and professional work environment
• Thought leadership and Research capabilities
• Ability to evaluate and propose best-of-breed tools and engineering best-practices
• Expertise in conveying technical concepts to internal customers, technical team members, and/or other technical contributors across the organization
• Deeply self-motivated with the ability to work independently, coordinating activities within cross-regional and multi-functional teams
• A passion for excellence, innovation, and teamwork; eager to learn and adapt every day
• Able to coach team members in areas where you have domain expertise and able to coordinate with partners on

The Skills that are Good to Have for this role

• Financial Services  domain experience with exposure to Mutual Funds
• Unix/Linux , Shell scripting, Tomcat, Docker , Scheduling Tool like ControlM
• Experience in agile methodology