Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
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What's the role?
As a technical, hands on Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET), your job is to participate in the manual and automation testing of our web-based application. You will be guided by an Engineer Manager on our well established team. Your role on our team will be that of a "Full-Stack" Test Engineer - someone who has a strong appreciation and skills in software engineering closely tied to testing. We'd like experience in manual and automated testing (performance testing is a plus) with proven technical abilities capable of building tools and test frameworks with tests as needed.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to develop web applications, build test frameworks, and integrate with external libraries with little to no guidance.
- Define testing strategies and scope out features to write meaningful test plans.
- Contribute to the existing test automation repository, identify bottlenecks and implement improvements.
- Taking ownership of testing responsibility and participating in deployments to ensure successful product releases.
- Develops application code and corresponding white box tests based on features / requirements / stories.
- Drives the appropriate amount of testing needed while delivering on cadence.
- Understands and can explain frameworks and test automation strategy to others.
- Proven experience on writing complex API tests which interface with upstream services or databases
- Design, implement and maintain cross-platform test automation scripts within the CI pipeline
- Develop and maintain BDD (Behavior Driven Development) test scenarios and regression plans.
- Participate in full test development life cycle including requirements analysis and design.
- Work with developers to provide additional research and debugging of issues when more information is needed to resolve problems.
- Within 3 to 6 months, has a proven understanding of the key systems within their business domain and understands the data flows and interdependencies for the key systems in their domain.
Experience:
- Technology Knowledge Required: Node.js, JavaScript, and any of the testing tools listed: (webdriver.io, Mocha, Chai, Cucumber, GitLab, Sauce Labs, K6).
- 3+ years of coding experience in Javascript / Node.js
- 2+ years of professional experience as a QA Automation Engineer working in an agile environment
- Understanding of version control using git
- Experience with Testing Automation Tools and Frameworks such as Webdriver.io , Cucumber, Sauce Labs, Mocha, etc.
- Experience in how to leverage and configure a CI/CD Pipeline with Gitlab/Jenkins
- Capable of leading test automation efforts with minimal direction
- Understanding the software development life cycle and agile/waterfall methodologies
- Experience/knowledge of microservice architecture and how to test them individually or as an e2e solution
- Test Automation:
- Ability to critical think and produce solutions to complex problems
- Create and recommend testing tools to improve our automation health
- SDETs primarily work with & develop Component and E2E tests within the Planning solutions space
- As our scope broadens & we tackle migration work between our test suites, it's good to gain familiarity with the unit & integration test suites for each of our apps.
Support:
- Familiar with active Prod issues, and assist with testing, review, or automation changes based on issue priority.
- Participate in Production Deploys and Releases
- Support Delivery teams with test automation trainings and testing standard methodologies.
- Actively participate in code review process
- Familiar with framework enhancements
Benefits:
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
- Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus
- Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$93,030.00
Pay Range - End:
$132,900.00
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