SDET- Software Developer Engineer Test - Senior
Spectraforce
Austin, Texas
a month ago
Job Description
Job Title:SDET- Software Developer Engineer Test - Senior
Job Location:Onsite Austin, TX primary (3-4 days a week)
Job Duration:12 Months (Possibility of Extension)
We are looking for an engineer responsible for developing digital strategy, offers, and experiences to drive the growth and loyalty of existing and prospective clients and accelerate digital transformation. You will be part of the Digital Services team at for account open and client onboarding, 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 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.
What you’ll do
• Assesses risk for business/customer impact
• Be a 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
Required Skills -
6-10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
• 3-5 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.
• Strong proficiency in WebDriverIO and JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 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
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: $55.00/hr.
Job Location:Onsite Austin, TX primary (3-4 days a week)
Job Duration:12 Months (Possibility of Extension)
We are looking for an engineer responsible for developing digital strategy, offers, and experiences to drive the growth and loyalty of existing and prospective clients and accelerate digital transformation. You will be part of the Digital Services team at for account open and client onboarding, 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 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.
What you’ll do
• Assesses risk for business/customer impact
• Be a 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
Required Skills -
6-10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
• 3-5 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.
• Strong proficiency in WebDriverIO and JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 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
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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: $55.00/hr.