Test Automation Engineer

These roles are for the Southeast in any of the following locations: Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, or Raleigh.Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward.Software Engineering professionals work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle to analyze, design, build, test, implement and/or maintain multiple system components or applications for Accenture or our clients.Test Automation Engineering Senior Analysts, with a future-focused mindset, provide technical leadership and strategic direction. They transform testing into a continuous and efficient end-to-end quality engineering function through the use of quality processes, tools, and methodologies significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. They evolve more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing products andsolutions.Job DescriptionTesting professionals utilize Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement testing and quality assurance initiatives to ensure solution quality before deployment.Test Automation professionals provide specialized expertise in test automation using commercially available functional test tools. They apply Accenture´s recommended test automation framework and best practices.Role responsibilities:

Implement end-to-end automation

Support DevOps implementations

Support automation assessments

Support tool research, analysis and selection

Implement automation frameworks and approaches

Identify and analyze suitable opportunities for test automation

Utilize efficient and effective processes and standards in order to continuously improve quality

Support development of automation at all layers of the application stack

Support Testing and quality activities within Agile delivery

These roles are for the Southeast in any of the following locations: Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, or Raleigh.

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 3 years of experience in Test Automation including planning, script development, & maintenance

Minimum of 3 years of experience in Agile environment

Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in two of the following testing toolsets/frameworks:

Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Protractor, SoapUI

TDD: using jUnit, TestNG, other

BDD: using Cucumber/Gherkin, Geb/Spock

Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in two of the following:

Java/J2EE, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, VB.NET

Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including two of the following build/deploy/version control tools:

Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo

Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Bitbucket, GitHub

Grunt, Gradle, Gulp, Maven, MS TFS

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Preferred Skills:

Demonstrated understanding of application architectures

Demonstrated experience with virtualization using CA Service Virtualization, Rational Integration Server, Parasoft Virtualize or SmartBear Ready!API

Demonstrated experience with Nexus, Artifactory, NPM, Bower or similar

It is currently our objective to assign our people to work near where they live. However, given the nature of our business and our need to serve clients, our employees must be able to travel when needed. This role requires 100% flexibility to travel and work onsite with clients (typically Monday through Thursday).Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration. Accenture is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.Equal Employment Opportunity:All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. About Accenture:Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 435,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.