QA Automation Engineer

The Group:
Fueling the technologies that drive our products and support our company's infrastructure, the Technology team within our Corporate team consists of talented developers, network architects, and IT experts who help make technology one of Morningstar's core strengths. Though our technologists represent a range of skills and knowledge bases, they all view technology as a craft and care deeply about creating positive user experiences. From Agile methodologies to mobile applications, to software as a service (SaaS) delivered from our private cloud, we push technology's boundaries to build scalable, elegant solutions that help investors reach their financial goals.
The Role:
In this role, you will collaborate with customers, product owner, project managers, and developers to write automation testing code as well as perform manual testing in an Agile development environment. You will design testing strategy, define test case, conduct testing, create test reports, track defects and run regression testing.
Responsibilities

• Define and establish automation strategy and process.
• Understand the Data Collection applications and come up with the automation testing framework.
• Should understand the requirement, design and develop the automation test cases.
• Manual test the functions that are not covered by automation test cases.
• Mentor and help to upgrade the automation skill set of other QAs.

Requirements

• 4-6 Years of working experience as an automation QA.
• Proven experience developing automated test systems and scripts beyond record and playback. Specifically developing functions, adding control flow logic, loops etc.
• Hands on in any one of the testing tools like Selenium, QTP, JUnit, NUnit.
• Proven understanding of white box, grey box and black box testing techniques.
• Experience in at least two of the following languages; C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++, Java.
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented design principles.
• Experience of source control systems and configuration management.
• Experience using SQL with regard to writing and understanding queries and procedures.
• Proven ability to deliver quality results in a busy and dynamic business focused environment.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
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