SDET / Automation Tester (NodeJs & Typescript / Javascript)

About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 45 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 400 million freights posted in 2022, and a database of $150 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a SDET to join our Engineering team in Bangalore, India.

Core Responsibilities

• Automation Responsibilities
  • Automate tests of software in accordance with Automation team's best practices in order to 
    • facilitate QA's acceptance of a software product/system/feature/component
    • quickly identify regressions during an iteration that compromise software quality, and
    • increase depth and breadth of test coverage to support release frequency targets.
  • Collaborate closely with STE’s in test definition (e.g. Cucumber) review to ensure accurate implementation of tests, e.g. the automating tests consistent with what is intended by the test case.
  • Complete automation stories and tasks assigned within a project iteration timeframe.
  • Effectively communicate automation activities and results in oral and written formats, such as at daily standups and within JIRA.
  • Analyzes test run results to identify and correct false negatives, i.e. tests that are reporting as “failed” due to a reason other than the application under test.
  • Collaborate with project team members in the diagnosing or resolution of problems in accordance with team-established guidelines.
  • Maintain documentation of automation framework, tools, and processes.
  • Demonstrate ongoing commitment to learning tools, test definition language, and programming language(s) used in test automation.
  • Demonstrate ongoing commitment to learning latest software test theory and practices, as well as the underlying technology used to build and host the products and services being tested.

• Team Responsibilities
  • Have a positive, can-do attitude. Be teachable, flexible, and adaptable.  Be willing to embrace change. Do not just report problems, be a problem solver.
  • Promptly attend and actively participate in all team meetings such as Daily Standups, Sprint Planning meetings, and Retrospectives.
  • Help with manual testing tasks on an exception basis to help team achieve  key dates and deliverables.

• Success Measured by a combination of:
  •  Measurable increased breadth and/or depth of test automation coverage, comprised of both the number of automated tests and a coverage percentage.
  • Number of automation stories or tasks completed within each release or iteration.
  • Level of difficulty of a story or issue entrusted to the SDET for implementation.
  • Confidence and Trust expressed by fellow project team members in the SDET’s ability to a) automate the most important tests, and b) provide accurate and sufficient detail about automation.

Software Development Engineer Test Responsibilities

• Test Automation:
  • Understand parallel programming, resource management and how to design and implement
    microservices and web applications.
  • Create/Deploy automation framework for any new project and mentor other STEs and SDETS on its use.
  • Able to update any component of the automation framework.
  • Maintain automation repositories.
  • Capable of deploying framework in DAT’s cloud solution (e.g. Amazon Web Services) and running automated test suite for any application in any environment, e.g. Dev, QA, Staging, or Production.
• Test Expertise. Knowledge of best practices of automation. Examples include understanding principles of automation architecture, the relationship between the framework and the application under test, and identifying most important tests for automated regression.
• Leadership: Expected to exercise leadership and test planning tasks. Expected to create stories and tasks in JIRA. Responsible for estimation during planning activities such as release or sprint planning meetings.
• Experience: 3-5 years automation experience
• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Supervision: No supervision required.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Expected to to help monitor and mentor SDETs in any of their automation responsibilities.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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