Senior Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

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About Role :

As a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer in Test on the team, you should be an expert at writing test automation for APIs as well as UI, creating test plans and test strategies for testing product features. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their automation code and test cases to ensure good coverage and quality of a feature. This role requires good communication skills to collaborate with Product Managers for understanding requirements as well as collaboration across teams.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Be part of the agile development team and closely work with the developers.
• Develop a detailed understanding of the features/enhancements for the product – including functional specifications and design – with the perspective of performing automated and manual, white box as well as black-box testing. 
• Independently own features and create feature test plans/strategies based on development and feature completion milestones
• Timely reporting, tracking, and updating of issues and test cases
• Create and maintain the testbed setup, and document the steps for the same
• Participating in test cases, test plan and code reviews
• Design automation framework for automating feature tests. Fix issues, propose changes or enhancements to the framework for enabling new feature tests.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the development cycle
• Identify quality assurance process bottlenecks and suggest actions for improvement.
• Resolve functional queries coming from other business units such as support, escalation, product management, etc.
• Participate in bug triaging, tracking quality assurance metrics
• Monitor timely builds and manage product deployments effectively.

Key Skills: 

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, processes
• Ability to estimate the work and prioritize/plan with leads
• Good understanding of Operating systems (Windows and Linux)
• Understanding of threads, multiprocessing, socket programming, etc
• Good understanding of basic networking concepts.
• Experience with widely used bug and test management tools such as - Jira, Testrail, etc.
• Experience working with version control systems such as SVN, Git, etc.
• Good shell scripting skills
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Familiarity with cloud architecture/concepts and docker.
• Experience working on security , scale and performance testing. (Good to have)
• Experience with SQL databses i.e - Mysql
• Experience in building automation pipelines and working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Gitflow, etc.
• Experience designing automation framework and tools.
• Knowledge of any front-end web application test automation tools such as Selenium / Cypress/ Puppeteer
• Knowledge of RESTful API and testing/automation of the same.
• Understanding of agile testing methodologies, test pyramid, and quality metrics.
• Experience with white-box testing and test methodologies such as TDD and BDD

Pluses: 

• Mentoring and leading small test teams

Experience: 6 to 8 years