senior test engineer

Position: senior test engineer

Number of positions: 2 only on w2!

Days onsite: 2 days a week onsite

Location: 95 christopher columbus Blvd in Jersey city, NJ or 1 World trade center in NYC.

Contract: 3 months extendable

Interview process: 1 and done but possibly 2 if everyone cant get on the call

Testing Expertise:

• Automation Testing: Strong experience in automated testing frameworks
• Microservices Testing:
  • API-level testing for ~12 microservices
  • Familiarity with RESTful interfaces (7018P)
• UI Testing:
  • Web front-end testing
  • Tools: Selenium, Jasmine (mentioned), others welcome
• Regression Testing:
  • Maintain and expand a large regression test suite
  • Thousands of existing tests across services

Frameworks & Tools

• Cucumber:
  • Heavy use of Groovy-based Cucumber (open to Java/Kotlin variants)
  • Will be building out cucumber-based regression and smoke test suites
• JMeter:
  • Currently used for smoke/regression testing
  • Limitations noted in integration and reporting
• Load Testing:
• Build from scratch a performance/load testing suite
• Simulate steady-state, batch, and spike scenarios
• Tools: JMeter, Gatling, or others welcome

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of existing test suites and expand/optimize them
• Build new test frameworks (especially for load/performance)
• Clean up and reorganize legacy cucumber tests
• Integrate test results with reporting frameworks (e.g., Scale)
• Work independently with minimal hand-holding
• Collaborate with dev teams to understand service functionality and test coverage needs

Candidate Profile:

• Self-starter: Can jump in with minimal onboarding
• Testing guru : Deep experience across UI, API, and performance testing
• Flexible with tech stack: Comfortable switching between Groovy, Java, Kotlin, etc.
• Not necessarily a Java expert, but must understand service functionality and testing logic