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About the role
- The Senior SDET role is responsible for working as an individual contributor and quality engineering leader within a software development scrum team.
- This role will encompass the entire spectrum of test automation and white-box testing.
- Build and maintain automated test suites for the full tech stack including UI, API, Microservices, and Database.
- Optimize and stabilize the automated test suites
- Contribute to building test automation framework and enhancement.
- Leverage knowledge of Software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and apply to test suite development and maintenance
- Contribute to test tooling evaluation to continuously evolve the tooling strategy to be industry leading technologies.
- Contribute to the improvement of Quality Engineering processes and best practices, and actively participate in code reviews and quality discussions.
- Perform functional/ regression tests, analyze automated test results, and report defects in a timely and efficient manner to track them to closure.
- Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to support continuous testing and deployment.
- Participate in all the Agile ceremonies (sprint grooming, planning, demos).
- Collaborate with the agile squad and cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and application architecture.
- Design and document comprehensive test cases, establish requirements traceability
- Analyze test results, and report defects in a timely and efficient manner to track them to closure.
- Call out areas of risk. Analyze application architecture to develop effective and impactful tests at the right layer of the application under test.
- Understand the release cycle , deployment process well and ensure quality gates are adhered at each phase.
- Leverage existing CI/CD tools and framework to integrate the automated tests suites into the deployment pipelines.
- Provides guidance to SDETs and Associates.
- Ability to work any feature ticket without assistance, regardless of complexity. Could work as the sole SDET on a scrum team if needed. Works with Staff & Principal SDETs regarding design & frameworks topics. Lead the maintenance of the test environments, test data creations, ensuring they are consistent with staging/production configurations.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Proficient in coding with the breadth of knowledge up and down the technology stack and extensive implementation of object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, system architecture, etc, in one or more programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, JS or similar.
- Familiar with Terraforms, Shell scripting, and Powershell scripting.
- Expert in various full stack - open source testing or COTS tools such as Selenium/ Cypress/ Playwright for Web testing, Appium/ Espresso for Mobile testing and RestAssured/ HttpClient for API testing.
- Proven track record in evaluating various tools and framework, setting best practices, coding guidelines and review process.
- Well versed in building, maintaining and enhancing test automation framework using industry best practice such as page-object model, data-driven framework, behavioral driven development, etc using testing framework such as JUnit, NUnit, TestNg, Pytest or Cucumber.
- Experience in setting up Git workflow (eg: Bitbucket, Gitlab), build automation tools (Gradle, Maven, Nuget etc), and artifact management using tools like JFrog, Proget, etc.
- Experience in establishing various automated quality gates and enabling automated test execution on cloud devices (Saucelabs/ Browserstack) using various CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, CircleCI, etc.
- Expert in building test strategies, test plans, and automation strategies with a variety of test types such as Smoke, Functional, Regression testing, etc. using various test case optimization techniques.
- Working knowledge of Agile/DevOps development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
- Working knowledge of relational databases (eg: SQL Server, Postgres) and non-relational databases (eg: MongoDB, DynamoDB).
- Ability to write complex queries including Joins, Aggregate functions, etc.
- A seasoned collaborator, extremely effective at cross-functional collaboration i.e. bringing Product, Design and Engineering together, apt in decision making & project management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- remote-first environment
- unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) with employer match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
test automationwhite-box testingautomated test suitesobject-oriented programmingdata structuresdesign patternssystem architecturetest automation frameworktest case optimizationCI/CD integration
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationdecision makingproject managementstrong written communicationstrong verbal communication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software Engineering