QA Automation Engineer Sr.

Company: ALTEN
Location: San Jose
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Sr. QA Automation EngineerLocation: Remote (Open to all times but most are all EST or CST)Job Description:Day to Day Responsibilities of this Position and Description of Project:You are someone with expertise in automated testing and quality assurance principles who will bring focus to quality in the software development process. You are someone with strong communication skills who will collaborate with software engineers on your team to advocate for quality. You are a continuous learner who will apply the proper tools and techniques to the situation and evangelize best practices and proper methodologies. If you're a skilled Software Quality Engineer looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity in an incredibly fun industry, then TCGplayer is the right place for you.The Impact You Will Make Here:

• You will help enable sellers to be successful in our thriving collectible gaming marketplace and their own stores by providing them best-in-class tools to manage their inventory, listings, pricing, and more.
• You will lead complex software feature testing through the Agile software development lifecycle by implementing tests, metrics, and quality gates to ensure the definition of done is met.
• You will collaborate closely with engineers and participate in code reviews to constantly improve the quality of our microservices built in C# and .NET 8.
• You will gather and analyze software requirements, shaping them into actionable items for testing and automation.
• You will improve the stability of our platform and enhance our ability to safely and quickly introduce new features by shoring up our automated regression test suites.
• You will document and communicate your progress effectively to your peers and manager.What You Bring to the Team:
  • Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of relevant industry experience, or Relevant Master's Degree plus 4 years of relevant industry experience, or 11 years of practical experience.
  • Experience testing microservices deployed in Kubernetes and AWS.
  • A desire to understand and take ownership of the full quality process, working with the team to ensure test plans are covered across the unit, integration, system, and contract tests.
  • Hands-on development experience in one or more back-end object-oriented programming languages (preferably C# and TypeScript).
  • Experience automating testing of REST API and Kafka contracts.
  • Experience with testing frameworks like Playwright.
  • Experience with Contract Testing (using Pact).
  • Experience with event processing mechanisms such as Kafka.
  • Experience with automating tests (load, API, integration, functional) within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with load testing, preferably with JMeter (and BlazeMeter).Required Skills (top 3 to 5/ non-negotiables):
  • Playwright- Typescript experience or JMeter
  • CSharp- microservices - Open to Java but team uses CSharp
  • Contract testing: Pact- Pactflow specifically
  • Comfortable in those program languages - Kafka is importantEducation Requirement:No degree required. Minimum 7 years of relevant experience - someone who can hit the ground running and has the ability to advise the team and has those leadership qualities.Required Testing:Automation Testing experience.Software Skills Required:CSharp, Kafka, Contract Testing, Playwright, CICD, Microservices.Preferred companies/industries:eCommerce, Backend Seller facing, Warehouse Management experience, larger scale microservices but open to all.Difficult Aspects of Role:NA
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