Test Automation Engineer

Job description

***To be considered, candidates must reside within 90 miles of one of the following locations: Charlotte, NC; Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; Washington, DC; Miami, FL; Tampa, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Dallas, TX; Austin, TX***

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward.

Software Engineering professionals work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle to analyze, design, build, test, implement and/or maintain multiple system components or applications for Accenture or our clients.

Test Automation Engineering Senior Analysts , with a future-focused mindset, provide technical leadership and strategic direction. They transform testing into a continuous and efficient end-to-end quality engineering function through the use of quality processes, tools, and methodologies significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. They evolve more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing products and
solutions.

Job Description

Testing professionals utilize Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement testing and quality assurance initiatives to ensure solution quality before deployment.

Test Automation professionals provide specialized expertise in test automation using commercially available functional test tools. They apply Accenture´s recommended test automation framework and best practices.

Role responsibilities:
· Implement end-to-end automation
· Support DevOps implementations
· Support automation assessments
· Support tool research, analysis and selection
· Implement automation frameworks and approaches
· Identify and analyze suitable opportunities for test automation
· Utilize efficient and effective processes and standards in order to continuously improve quality
· Support development of automation at all layers of the application stack
· Support Testing and quality activities within Agile delivery

Desired profile

Qualifications :

***To be considered, candidates must reside within 90 miles of one of the following locations: Charlotte, NC; Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; Washington, DC; Miami, FL; Tampa, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Dallas, TX; Austin, TX***


Basic Qualifications:

·  Minimum of 3 years of experience in Test Automation in areas such as planning, script development, & maintenance
·  Minimum of 3 years of experience in at least one of the following: Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Protractor, SoapUI, jUnit, TestNG, Cucumber/Gherkin, Geb/Spock
·  Minimum of 3 years of experience testing applications/software built on at least one of the following languages: Java/J2EE, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, VB.NET
·  Demonstrated experience in at least one of the following tools: Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Bitbucket, GitHub, Grunt, Gradle, Gulp, Maven, MS TFS
·  Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Preferred Qualifications:

·  Previous experience in at least one of the following: Java/J2EE, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, VB.NET
·  Minimum of 3 years of experience in Agile environment
·  Minimum of 3 years of experience in software/application testing in an Agile environment
·  Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.

Accenture is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

About Accenture:
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world's largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 435,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.