Job Description

Our Impact

We are a team with an interesting mix of legacy and cloud-based technologies to quickly enhance and deliver Freddie Mac’s technology offerings
We collaborate with IT teams, Business and Operations to advance our technical capabilities and go from not yet to possible
We have a goal to move out of Legacy technologies (SOA etc.) and to move to more microservices based and AWS cloud native technologies

Your Impact

Independently drive testing solution and delivery of a project. The individual would champion quality assurance that improves Test delivery processes and be a role model and mentor to the junior and midlevel Testers, working alongside of highly collaborative, open minded, technology savvy members
Contribute to strategic decisions in applying test automation and end to end testing
Provides proactive guidance, comprehensive documentation, and continual assessment of automation delivery across projects
Strong verbal and written communication, negotiation, networking and influencing skills are essential because collaboration with project members, stakeholders and executive management are critical
Drive the team to become more adaptable in quality assurance through test automation, and Continuous Testing practices
Demonstrate leadership proactive planning and efficiency improvements
Implement approach for more efficient and cost-effective methods for automated execution by reducing dependency on physical machines
Know or learn what is needed to deliver results and successfully compete

Qualifications

4+ years of experience using Test Management, Defect Tracking, Requirements Management, and Modeling tools, including automated testing tools framework experience
BS in Computer Science or Information Technology, or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience from which knowledge and skills may be obtained
Strong knowledge and experience with automation concepts, tools, and techniques
Experience in leading or managing test automation delivery and/or Practice and building automation frameworks
Strong Programming skills required (preferably Java/JavaScript/TypeScript) - Solid grasp of object-oriented programming, databases, development, and testing methodologies
Experience in Using Cucumber (Gherkin) for BDD/collaboration and test automation purposes
Experience in Testing Microservices/API which includes Contract Testing, Mocking, integration between services, Functional Testing, etc.
Expertise in working with DevOps implementation and good knowledge of CI tool Jenkins
Strong desire to learn new concepts and build to tools to infuse quality and enable faster delivery
Experience in using either Cloud provider or Container for test execution purposes
Knowledge in developing synthetic test data harness and experience in designing test data approach

Keys to Success in this Role

Strong technical background
Ability to work with and collaborate across the teams
Strong verbal and communication skills
Deep curiosity to learn about new trends and technologies to perform better