Senior Software Test Engineer

About the Role

Our technology team works to build, launch, and evolve our internal applications and consumer-facing web applications. We implement modern agile best practices and fully automated CI/CD pipelines. The SDET role focuses on verifying the quality and reliability of the software. A Senior SDET brings experience and understanding to the team, and owns the QA step in the process. You must be results-driven and able to thrive in a dynamic and rapidly-growing environment.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with the entire team to understand the work being done, communicate any issues you see, verify the quality of the software being built, and deliver new features and improvements.
• Become the SME for projects as they are being planned and developed, and own the testing step in our SDLC.
• Manually test as well as create automation around features being developed.
• Investigate and resolve complex bugs in unfamiliar code.
• Troubleshoot test and tool failures with no prior context.
• Mentor other team members on best practices as well as testing and automation strategies.
• Offer code reviews on SDET pull requests.
• Attend and participate in scrum meetings.

What We Look For

• Experience in building automation to test software applications
• Comfort with manually testing software applications.
• Ability to setup and maintain a local Ruby on Rails environment
• Strong understanding of RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium WebDriver
• An understanding of the code pipeline so that you can offer help when troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Ability to prioritize and deliver stories independently, communicate bugs, and risks
• Ability to write complex SQL queries to validate data changes or troubleshoot issues
• Strong communication skills
• Mentorship skills and the ability to give well-crafted constructive feedback