Sr QA Automation Engineer

What You Need To Know Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity. As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more. We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY. Overview The Senior QA Automation Engineer is responsible for the overall quality of systems and technology that are released into ETP’s production environment. The scope of this role includes the comprehensive aspects of quality including testing documentation, planning and execution of testing, testing validation, and obtaining approval using both manual processes and automated tools that are available in the SGWS environment. In their role, Senior QA Automation Engineer is responsible for ensuring the product meets business requirements and overall business objectives by tracking and reporting quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status, as well as documenting problems and communicating the issue to development staff to assist in their resolution. Primary Responsibilities Work with Agile scrum teams and be responsible for the quality of the product by leading required testing activities. Participate in story grooming session to come with effective automation plan and automated testing coverage with focus on the feature and E2E product. Own all the automation and testing activities such as Test Planning, Test case writing, Automation framework setup, Test Automation, test execution, defect management and reporting in the product scrums Plan and build Web, Mobile and API automation within the sprint to certify the stories from quality and performance perspective. Represent test engineering team in all sprint ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Sprint refinement, Standup, Defect triage, Sprint demo etc.) involving cross functional and business teams Participate in implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment through automated tests. Collaborates with product owners and development teams to triage and resolve all reported issues as needed Participate in design and code review and implement shift left testing and automation Manage daily review and analysis of automated tests results and reporting Integrating automated tests as part of CI (Continuous Integration) Tools and delivery practices with tools like Jenkins and GitHub Minimum Qualifications 5 or more years’ combined experience in a Retail B2B or B2C eCommerce business and / or Information Technology in Quality Engineering / testing role. Bachelor’s Degree (computer science, information systems, business administration or other industry related curriculum) or combination of education. Expertise and working experience in eCommerce (B2B/B2C) and/or Retail CRM Outstanding written & oral communication, presentation and collaboration skills are required. Extensive experience in working in Agile Methodology of software development Extensive experience of testing and automating applications built with UI frameworks like Angular JS, React, React Native and Micro front end/microservices based architecture. Experience with Tricentis TOSCA, Selenium, Playwright, Katalon Studio or equivalent technologies in test automation and must have strong knowledge in designing and developing automation framework for Web and Mobile Experience with code control & bug tracking tools such as GIT, bitbucket and JIRA Strong Understanding of TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Business Driven Development Extensive experience in API testing and automation using open-source testing frameworks like RestAssured, Karate etc. Experience in mobile automation using Appium Experience of working in cloud technologies like Azure or AWS. Experience in JIRA with Test management plugins or Microfocus ALM or similar test management tools. Experience with SQL, RDBMS or NO-SQL (Mongo, Cassandra) is a plus Experience with open-source performance testing tools like JMeter is a plus Physical Demands Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or adding machine Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs EEO Statement Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.