Let's begin! Senior Automation and Performance QA Engineer (5591)

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At Moody's Analytics Know Your Customer (KYC) / Know Your Supplier (KYS), we solve problems that matter. We are a cross-functional team of sales and marketing, technology, and product professionals who are all passionate about preventing criminal infiltration of the world's financial system and bringing transparency to global supply chains by detecting fraud, terrorism, human trafficking, and other criminal threats.
We combine the agility, passion, and dynamism of a startup with the strong positioning and stability of an established institution, providing our people with dynamic career paths and mobility options across the globe, all while having access to the entire Moody network. We empower our people and are committed to helping them reach their goals.
Role/Responsibilities:

• Write and execute manual, automated, and performance tests.
• Perform stress, load, regression, and performance testing to validate the production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts for load and scalability requirements through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
• Develop/maintain automation framework modules to fulfill specific testing requirements.
• Perform web, API, UI, functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, load, performance, and end-to-end testing within an Agile delivery model
• Design, create, and maintain Automated Test Frameworks for front and back-end systems/applications
• Implement end to end Test Automation and define tool roadmaps, including performance testing
• Improve existing Test Automation Frameworks
• Use bug-tracking systems to submit, track, and manage defects.
• Analyze the results of tests of tests that you have performed and provide meaningful reports to the project team.
• Maintain software testing artifacts.
• Use queries to create test data and analyze results for the tests you have performed.
• Work with other testers and key stakeholders to ensure coverage for each software release.
• Work closely with manual testers or Business Analysts.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate/first-level degree (e.g., bachelor's degree).
• extensive of QA experience.
• exetensive years of hands-on test automation experience with Selenium/Selenoid, Java, JUnit, Cucumber, automated REST API testing, SOAP UI, Postman, JIRA, Github, and GitActions.
• extensive years of performance test experience, preferably Gatling.
• Good understanding of the QA methodologies and Software Testing Lifecycle, including test planning, reporting, and metrics.
• Understanding of Web-based technology architecture and data structures
• Able to work well within the constructs of an agile process, including SCRUM, Continuous Build and Integration, etc.
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Very good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, as well as attention to detail
• Critical thinking skills to analyze system requirements for ambiguities and discrepancies
• Aptitude for thinking outside the box to develop thorough test scenarios and test cases
• Competent database skills

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody's Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.