Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates. Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios. Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests. Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts. Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation. Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments, CI-CD pipelines, and to be used by NOC teams. Regularly execute, maintain, and update automated test suites and analyze the results to identify the cause of failures. Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of the fix and required automation updates. Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new production releases. Work with cross-functional teams and release management to manage development, QA, and production releases of the software. Perform exploratory testing to understand the feature and how it is implemented, to find additional or unexpected behavior, and to refine and define additional test cases for the feature. Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and approaches. Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code. Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those issues.