Blue State Digital is looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer in Boston, United States. If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Operate on our BSD Tools SaaS platform across teams in both NY and Boston, thoroughly planning and testing the functionality, interface, and underpinning technologies of our product.
• Plan and test software on a cross-functional team that embraces short feedback loops, frequent release cycles and open communication. Shape the end-to-end design of new systems.
• Cooperate with our product team to plan new features and products.
• Actively liaise with project managers and other stakeholders throughout the course of a project.
• Associate early in the software planning lifecycle by contributing to and reviewing all pertinent information about the project including requirements, user stories, technical design documentation, design and UX comps.
• Design and maintain detailed test strategies, test plans, and test cases by working closely with members of the Product and Software Engineering teams.
• Prioritize tasks in the testing strategy by identifying risks, performing an impact analysis, and crafting a mitigation plan.
• Act alongside senior test automation engineers to help define parameters with which our automation suite will be built.
• Produce clear and complete testing updates including status, bug reporting, and tracking to the team.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a Quality Assurance role at a digital startup or SaaS company, with a focus on automation.
• Effective experience in writing test automation for RESTful web services.
• Expert knowledge of working with the Selenium automation tool to test web-based user interfaces.
• Deep knowledge of Behavior Driven Development tools such as Cucumber and Behave.
• Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Demonstarted understanding of working with continuous integration & delivery tools such as Github, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline.
• Proficient experience in working with project management and bug tracking software such as Jira or Zephyr.
• A shared passion and curiosity for making a change, including comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress.
• Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model at BSD.
• Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you.