Senior Lead, Test Automation Engineer

Fredericksburg, Virginia
Capital One
Locations: VA – McLean, United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Lead, Test Automation Engineer

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you’ll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs.

We are seeking a Senior Lead, Test Automation Engineer. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build and execute the test automation strategy for Marketing Technology. You will play a key role as a thought leader, influencer, and champion of best practices in the quality automation area. In this role, you must be able to understand the business problems being solved and apply strong agile testing principles to the SDLC. You will bring deep technical experience and a strong quality and automation mindset to shape the test automation practices of the agile delivery teams.

About you:

• Value well designed and crafted software

• Comfortable with front-end and back-end development using different languages and platforms

• Automate everything by default

• Believe in CI/CD philosophies and have practiced it in the past

• Constant learner and teacher who can see the bigger picture for the business

You will:

• Lead the implementation of test automation across the enterprise data ecosystem; Standardized testing processes, and streamline testing tools

• Partner with software engineering leaders to identify and implement strategies to accelerate our automation journey and improve testing and security; Advocate, develop and implement shift-left testing practices

• Act as a subject matter expert and provide coaching to team members on the test automation team

• Be able to evaluate emerging test design/strategies/practices

• Demonstrates a strong drive and intellectual curiosity to investigate complex technical issues

• Partner effectively with engineering leaders across the Organization to understand their requirements with an eye toward creating solutions that solve problems for all.

• Find opportunities to automate for increased security and ease of operations

• Communicate and adapt presentations to a wide range of audiences regarding goals, planning process, project initiatives, team innovation and results.

• Effective at educating through talks, whitepapers and coaching

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 8 years of enterprise experience in Test Automation

• At least 5 years Experience with behavior-driven development and testing tools or frameworks (Cucumber, Gherkin)

• At least 5 years Experience with automating end to end tests using tools (Selenium, Cypress)

• At least 8 years Programming experience in any of the following languages (Python, Java, JavaScript)

• At least 1 year of experience with Public Cloud (AWS, Google, Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree

• 2+ years of enterprise experience with AWS

• AWS Certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections ; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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