Our government client is NYC is looking for a remote Senior Integration Tester for a 12+month project that is from 9 AM to 6 AM working hours.Job Description Justification:The MyCity Portal will be a One-Stop portal allowing New Yorkers to find, check eligibility, and apply for vital services. Today, City services are challenging to find and have cumbersome and confusing processes, and some continue to require long PDF application submissions. Data from applications and services are not managed centrally, resulting in no easy mechanism to share data amongst City agencies.
The Senior Integration Tester will assist the OTI Application QA team in testing a robust, secure, and modern API-driven application data integration and sharing architecture to ingest, store, process, transform and share data with agency partners. The developed API layer will be the core of the MyCity backbone, allowing agencies to send and retrieve information from the MyCity Portal solution.
Using the Cloud OTI Integration Platform, the Senior Integration Tester will test the highly available and flexible agency integrations following industry best practices, comply with OTI security standards, modify and run automated pipelines used for deploying infrastructure components, work collaboratively under the direction of test leads, create and execute CI/CD pipelines for test automation deployment.
Note:Normal Business Hours, Monday through Friday (not including a mandatory unpaid meal break after 6 hours of work), 40 work hours per week. If the consultant works more than 40 hours per week, the consultant must request overtime in the Agency's timekeeping system and the project manager must approve those hours worked above the weekly maximum. SCOPE OF SERVICESTASKS:
- Design and develop test plans for testing the APIs, microservices and their configurations that have been built for this project
- Develop integration tests to cover the automated testing of API applications within a cloud environment
- Create clear, well-documented and modular automation test suites
- Ensure that components are tested as per design documents and test results are captured in AzDO Testplans
- Contribute to runbook documentation for testing API microservice applications
- Develop and configure CI/CD/CT automation processes to ensure rapid automation testing of API applications
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and group activities to determine new solutions and ideas to optimize our testing procedures
- Promote an environment that supports collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with our clients, team members, and other OTI teams
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered
- At least 8 years of overall software testing experience
- A minimum of 7 years of QA Automation with experience with programming languages/frameworks such as Java and Selenium Webdriver
- At least 5 years of API microservice applications testing using Soap UI/Ready API
- At least 3 years of solid hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS and knowledge of various cloud services
- Understanding of API Gateways, proxies, and concepts of securing API endpoints (e.g., rate limiting, API tokens)
- Experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and no-SQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
- Experience with Git, Azure DevOps Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD tools
- A team player with excellent communication skills, both written and oral, interpersonal, organizational skills, and problem-solving ability to work with customers and other non- technical end users on complex issues
- Has a high degree of responsibility and can work as an independent contributor to accomplish program goals
- Must have sound technical writing skills and be able to produce clear documentation
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- Experience using Azure services for App Service, Logic Apps, Blob Storage, Data Lake, etc.
- Knowledge of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
- Experience with Azure Monitoring services
- Experience with Microfocus Loadrunner