Sr. SDET

Role Overview

As a crucial member of our Engineering (QA) team, you'll report directly to the Manager of Engineering (QA) and collaborate with a diverse team of on-site and remote software engineers to turn our Product roadmap into reality! The Sr. SDET role is a key driver of efficiency within the team, ensuring the quality and reliability of software products and processes.

Responsibilities

• You know what a good testing strategy looks like and how to get tests running efficiently and consistently.
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality. Catalog and maintain test scenario library.
• Maintain client-automated testing tools and increase automated test coverage.
• Collaborate with coworkers to enhance existing client automation frameworks, compare alternative testing approaches, and build new systems that help drive business results.
• Develop and enforce test coding patterns across the team.
• Increase efficiency by listening to development feedback and ensuring test framework, execution, and reporting is streamlined and useful.
• Monitor, investigate, and identify problems during the development & execution process, pair with client development to diagnose and test fixes.
• Contribute to the team's Agile effort by estimating, measuring and improving through active participation and providing feedback on quality issues.
• Coordinate and participate in discussions about holistic testing approaches with the development teams, so we have a balance of manual testing, security testing, UI automation testing, and unit testing coverage.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities, including the QA Release Plans and checklists' execution.
• Influence strategic roadmaps from a quality engineering standpoint and manage tactical bi-weekly release operations
• Champion quality within the team and build a strong culture of high standards, integrity, and fun
• Review bug descriptions, functional requirements and design documents, incorporating this information into test plans and test cases.

Ideal Profile

• You are passionate about quality and quality-focused technologies for both software and data.
• 5+ years testing web, mobile, cloud-native and hybrid applications, and deep familiarity with open-source tools and workflows (e.g. Cucumber, Selenium, Cypress, JMeter, Robot)
• 3+ years of experience working within an agile workflow in a CI/CD environment
• 3+ years of experience collaborating with and working in cross-functional teams including product, user experience, project management, etc.
• 3+ years of professional experience as a QA lead
• Thorough understanding of the SDLC and tooling (GIT, branching/merging, build systems, CI tools and methodologies)
• Experience with API testing or integration (REST APIs)
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, be self motivated, and be goal oriented is essential to excel in this role
• Experience in developing, designing frameworks – Java/JavaScript/ Python/ Perl/ and web technologies.
• Significant experience automating repeated tasks and building test coverage with existing tools
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing. Ability to document and troubleshoot errors. Attention to detail. Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Comfort with ambiguity and a “no job too small” startup mentality
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science related field