Senior Test Lead

Job Summary

TITLE:

Sr. Web/Mobile QA Automation Engineer

DEPARTMENT

: D&IT

REPORTS TO:

Software Engineering Manager

LOCATION:

Hybrid

JOB SUMMARY:

Polaris, a global powersports leader, is seeking a Web and Mobile QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability of web and mobile applications. As a QA Automation Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining robust automated testing solutions that regularly exercise full system functionality and ensure project requirements are implemented properly. The ideal candidate is effective in a fast-paced Agile development environment, is fresh on industry, best practices and automated testing standards and is passionate about delivering quality products to customers. Interest in power sports is a plus!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and drive test plan, test cases and test strategies based on project requirements, ensuring comprehensive test coverage for web applications & mobile apps.
• Build, maintain and execute robust and scalable web automation frameworks and scripts that validate the functionality and stability of our applications across various browsers & devices.
• Integrate automation and performance tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless deployment and quick feedback cycles.
• Identify, document, and track software defects early in the development lifecycle. Perform root cause analysis and collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize and resolve issues.
• Execute regression & smoke testing to support software releases to customers
• Conduct performance and load testing to identify the bottlenecks and ensure scalability.
• Experience with source control tools like Git and ADO
• Have a customer-focused mindset for delivering a product that is centered around great customer experience
• Be an active participant in and help enhance a mature agile environment to deliver high-quality applications
• Explore new methods and tools for functional, automated testing & AI
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams to implement QA processes within the established QA standardization and best practices.
• Flexible enough to work on multiple products being produced for a fast-changing market
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members
• Support, maintain and administer cloud testing solutions
• Be an active participant in and help enhance a mature agile environment

Flexible enough to work on products being produced for a fast-changing market

Skill Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7-9 years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience delivering highly effective automated testing solutions using Selenium WebDriver & Appium in a C# environment (for Web & .NET MAUI Mobile app automation)
• Strong experience building scalable automation frameworks from ground up.
• Hands on experience in API testing and automation using Playwright-Typescript, Postman-Newman, ensuring comprehensive coverage and integration within the testing framework.

Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, test case /script generation tools) to improve test authoring, defect analysis, quality engineering productivity

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7-9 years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience delivering highly effective automated testing solutions using Selenium WebDriver & Appium in a C# environment (for Web & .NET MAUI Mobile app automation)
• Strong experience building scalable automation frameworks from ground up.
• Hands on experience in API testing and automation using Playwright-Typescript, Postman-Newman, ensuring comprehensive coverage and integration within the testing framework.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, test case /script generation tools) to improve test authoring, defect analysis, quality engineering productivity
• Performance testing experience (good to have)
• Experience with CI/CD integration using Azure DevOps/ GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with test management tools like TestRail, JIRA
• Strong knowledge of automation design patterns (POM, reusable framework design).
• Strong background and knowledge in automated, system, smoke, black box, integration, and unit testing
• Experience with Agile development methods such as Scrum and Kanban
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate with the engineering team and create testing plans and written reports showing errors
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar degree

Experience in automating .NET (MAUI) app automation (using Appium)

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AI/ML-driven test automation solutions is a plus.
• Script and tool writing experience to aid in test suite execution
• LambdaTest / BrowserStack Experience
• Test Rail Experience
• Apache JMeter Experience (Good to have)
• DevOps knowledge (Good to have)