Elite Technology is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Job Description:
As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you are an experienced member of the team who will drive quality and testing strategies at a high level. You will assist testing efforts, mentor junior engineers, and take ownership of the test architecture. This role requires advanced expertise in test automation, continuous improvement, and a strategic approach to quality across the product lifecycle.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead test strategy and execution for major releases and complex features. (e.g., reduction in manual testing effort, time to deployment, defect rates) would give candidates a clearer idea of performance expectations.
- Architect, develop, and maintain robust and scalable test automation frameworks.
- Drive quality standards, enforce best practices, and guide team members in test methodology.
- Act as a primary liaison with stakeholders to ensure alignment on quality objectives.
- Conduct root-cause analysis on complex issues and provide actionable recommendations.
- Mentor and support junior team members, facilitating training and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to enhance testing processes and tools.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in test automation, with demonstrated expertise in software testing.
- Demonstrated expertise in .NET technologies, including C#, ASP.NET, API development, and .NET Core.
- Extensive experience in constructing automations for web applications (encompassing both UI and API functionality), console applications, Windows forms applications, and/or cloud infrastructure deployments (experience with containerization technologies a plus).
- Good understanding of Selenium or an equivalent testing framework, like Cypress, Playwright, or JUnit.
- Proven experience working within Agile and Scrum software development methodologies.
- Experience with cloud platform and cloud-native design principles, particularly regarding platform services such as App Services and Functions (knowledge of serverless architectures like Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps a plus).
- Experience with relational database technologies, particularly Microsoft SQL Server.
- Knowledge about Azure DevOps, Jira or similar work item management tools
- Knowledge about CI/CD Pipelines to streamline development and testing workflows.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively convey and share technical concepts with leadership at various levels of technical expertise.
- Experience in applying software QA methodologies and tools to ensure comprehensive test execution.
- Solid foundation in crafting clear, concise, and thorough test plans and test cases.
- Familiarity with ERP, financial or mission-critical SaaS applications is considered an asset.
- Prior experience with system load, scale testing, or performance testing automation are nice to have
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a data-driven approach.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams and maintaining complex testing projects.
- Excellent soft skills: adaptability, conflict resolution and the ability to influence and drive quality across teams.
- Proficiency in English at a B2+ level or higher (CEFR), with the ability to communicate effectively in both written and spoken formats.
Benefits:
- 100% remote work, with the ability to go to a WeWork in Escazú
- PTO
- 2 Elite Mental Health Days per year
- Annual Incentive Plan
- 14 Paid Costa Rica Holidays
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Life Insurance
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
Location
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible remote work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Oklahoma.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
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What We Do
Elite is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Our solutions lie at the heart of a large proportion of the world’s largest, most successful and innovative law firms. In fact, three-quarters of the Am Law 200 and four-fifths of the Global 200 rely on at least one Elite solution to help drive their firms’ business operations into the future. As more firms make cloud solutions a core part of their technology strategies for the future, Elite is leading the way in supporting customers as they move their financial and operational systems into the cloud. To date, Elite has supported more than 400 firms around the world in their move to 3E in the cloud
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