QA Automation Engineer

Position Title: QA Automation Engineer

The Area: The Area: The Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions. It uses Morningstar’s intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process—market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation. The unit offers a broad suite of global equity, bond, commodity and asset allocation indexes.

The Role: In this role, you will work as a QA Automation Engineer, collaborate with technology and business team to build technology solutions for Morningstar`s Indexes applications. You should have understanding of test automation frameworks and tools. You should automate existing applications, study their enterprise complexities and develop/implement better systems with modern testing automation practices. 

Responsibilities – 

• Define and establish automation strategy and process
• Understand the Indexes applications and come up with the automation testing framework 
• Should understand the requirement, design and develop the automation test cases 
• Should also work as Individual Contributor
• Coordinate the application enhancement and tech ops testing activities with technology and business teams
• Participate in team communication and collaborate in planning activities, including stand-ups, iteration planning meetings (IPM), and retrospectives.
• Documenting all issues, while assisting in RCA and in resolution of the bugs. 

Requirements – These are the most important skills, qualities, etc. that we’d like for this role.

• 3+ Years of working experience as an automation QA 
• Hands-on current experience in adopting large scale, cross-functional automation frameworks with well-balanced coverage across back-end integration, database levels, UI.
• Understanding of different test automation approaches (keyword-driven, Data-driven, BDD, hybrid) 
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD process and instrument full SDLC automation, specifically cloud testing execution, reporting tools such as ALM, Jira
• Deep practical experience with cutting edge tools for Web, DB and Web-service testing (Selenium, SoapUI etc.)
• Having Technical skills – DB-SQL, ETL, Java
• Hands on in testing tools like Selenium, QTP, JUnit, NUnit
• Proven understanding of white box, grey box and black box testing techniques
• Strong expertise in problem solving techniques and insuring quality of projects.
• Experience in at least one of the following languages; C#, Java
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented design principles 
• Experience of source control systems and configuration management
• Experience using SQL regarding writing and understanding queries and procedures
• Excellent self-study skills
• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Good to have knowledge and working experience of Cloud Testing

EOE Statement: Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.