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At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

We are in looking for a strong Agile Quality Engineer to join our team for Amex in a box program. This position suits someone who can hit the ground running, form good working relationships quickly and add value by introducing best practice design and techniques learned elsewhere. The successful candidate will be able to know when to stand their ground, and when to “let things be”. While the whole team is responsible for quality, it is the QE who will guide those efforts to ensure Quality throughout the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications, and tests and builds automation tools.

• Development of Automation and Testing in a CI/CD environment.

• Work with Engineers to drive improvements in code quality via manual and automated Testing.

• Develop Test Plans, Strategies and scheduling of test activity.

• Create and execute Test cases/scripts at any level as required (Unit, Integration, Component Integration, System Integration, Exploratory).

• Maintain organization of Test case suites (BVT/Regression/Targeted Regression).

• Validate and report on test results for software quality improvement.

• Coordinate “Quality at Every Step” – Involved in the review of the user story backlog and requirements specifications for completeness and weaknesses in function, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security and compliance testing, and provides recommendations.

• Work with Product Owners to prioritize features, maintain documentation and known issues.

• work with other QEs in the platform to ensure cross contamination of changes does not have an adverse effect on the platform.

• work with other QEs to ensure a consistent messaging across the platform as it relates to Quality.
  
  

Must be a hands on person

• Demonstrable coding skills in Selenium is a must

• Demonstrable coding skills with JMeter is a must

• good programming skills in Java or Python is necessary

• Working knowledge on rest-assured API test automation and BDD/Cucumber/Serenity

• Should have prior experience of Automation framework development for UI and API testing

• 3-7 years of equivalent experience in related disciplines

Functional Skills/Capabilities:

Demonstrated technical capabilities and ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a range of stakeholders

Technical Skills/Capabilities:

• Proven record of whitebox and blackbox testing capabilities in an enterprise setting is a plus

• Good understanding of testing and automation capabilities such as mocking frameworks, JUNIT, TESTNG,

• Jenkins, maven, Git, Stash, JIRA

• Exposure to NO SQL, and SQL capabilities is a plus

• Experience in Cucumber or BDD framework is a plus
  
  

Knowledge of Platforms:

• Windows / Unix

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS/GCP is a plus