.**QA Automation Engineer****Tester I - Software Testing**Who we are**:Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.UST is a mission-driven group of over 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in over 30+ countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.With us, you'll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.**You Are**:All QA positions at CivicPlus are primarily responsible for, effective test strategy and planning, and are accountable for efficient test execution and reporting, to ensure the quality of deliverables for their respective teams. In addition, this position should be able to create automated tests by mocking existing tests and maintain automated test scripts, such that they meet the standards defined by the QA and Development teams.**The Opportunity**:- Understand your product's functionality and architecture.- Master how various components of the product you are assigned to, integrate, and interact with each other including all third-party software integrations, and use that knowledge to develop and maintain product-level test plans.- Help team shift left by analyzing requirements early, developing solid test strategy, ensuring effective test execution, and follow-up on issues, to ensure SUT (System Under Test) is working as per specifications and follows set standards for the Product, Web, and Quality.- Understand Page Object Model design, how it is implemented and adopted at CivicPlus, and use it effectively in the testing lifecycle and workflows, ensuring the quality of each deliverable.- Understand the role of non-functional testing like performance testing and API testing and learn the base concepts of how automation coverage can be improved along those lines.- Identify functional areas that can be automated and broaden the coverage of automated tests, maintaining existing test suites such that the tests are always ready to be executed.- Understand and follow coding standards set by the ARB Maintain the documentation of existing framework and keep it up to date with new development.- Able to work at a computer and monitor for extended periods of timeThis position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.**What you need**:- Bachelor of Science or equivalent technical degree or diploma.- Hands-on experience in writing automated scripts and maintaining automated test suites