Title: Software Developer Engineer Test – Senior
Location: Austin, TX or San Francisco, CA
Duration: 12 months – Possibility for conversion

We are looking for an experienced engineer responsible for developing digital strategy, offers, and experiences to drive the growth and loyalty of existing and prospective clients and accelerate client’s digital transformation. You will be part of the Digital Services team at client, focused on improving the customer journey for our clients. The journey model is insights-driven and focuses on rapid iterations to drive innovation and transformation. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more integrated client-centric experiences, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership. You will be responsible for overall technical delivery for a defined customer journey and transform the way we work. You'll work closely with other technologists to define the digital strategy for the firm. You'll be a part of client's digital transformation team: a group of thought leaders responsible for transforming the way we do business. If you consider yourself a change agent, enjoy leading edge technologies, fast-paced environments and thrive under ambiguity then we want to talk to you.
 

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
• 6+ years of hands on experience in development, execution and maintenance of automated test scripts
• Prior Technical lead experience providing mentoring, code review, design support, etc.
• Hands-on coding experience in Ruby, Java, C# or any other Object oriented programming language
• Experience with Selenium WebDriver
• Experience with Agile Development Practices
• Good understanding of exploratory testing practices
• Good knowledge of new standard industry tools for logging bugs and managing test cases (ex. JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ)
• Hands-on experience with Web services virtualization
• Ability to perform Code Reviews
• Experience with scoping, sizing and overseeing multiple concurrent projects, assessing the appropriate level of risk-based testing, reviewing team deliverables and being the single point of contact for stakeholders
• Proven ability of working and leading multiple projects and releases, balancing time and effort for successful delivery
• Proven experience as a leader/trainer in a large, complex QA organization, with a demonstrated ability in leading a risk-based approach to software testing
• Proven experience driving innovative testing solutions within a complex, Enterprise Platform
• Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) using the Gherkin language like Cucumber, JBehave, SpecFlow
• Understanding of CI/CD practices, lean methodologies
• Experience with Jenkins / Bamboo /GIT

 
 
Assesses risk for business/customer impact

• Be an hands on advocate and leader for Test Automation of every part of the software delivery lifecycle
• Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies with a DevOps philosophy using Atlassian stack
• Conducts systems set-up, and maintains test environments (varies by product)
• Set and communicate automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, UI etc., evaluate and implement software test automation tools and tooling standards
• Build automation frameworks to increase reuse and reduce effort
• Increase automation cycle execution run times and decrease manual analysis of results
• Keep automation current, flexible and designed to work within a continuous integration / deployment framework
• Develop methods and procedures to create automation test data and data refresh capabilities
• Participates in code reviews and communicates with software engineers and software engineers in test to ensure test coverage based on their code changes
• Assist developers with Robust unit/component/ commit/ build and deploy/CI/CD test automation as needed
• Recommend meaningful and automated dynamic reports and metrics that measure the success of automation efficiency and quality, and provide action items for continuous improvements
• Interact with various levels of individual contributors and management to educate and influence
• Collaborate with Automation experts to plan, design, manage, report and prioritize software test automation solutions along with Dev and QA engineers across the organization
• Implement and lead Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment strategies
• Maintain tools used in the Automation development including source control, test management and release systems
• Influence, develop and execute QA process and testing best practices
• Use TDD/BDD/ATDD using Gherkin/Ruby/Cucumber
• Understands tools and their ROI
• Constantly streamlining CICD pipeline and processes to decrease Delivery Lead Time

 

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
 
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $57.00/hr.