Job title: Senior SDET Engineer
Reports to: QA Manager
Job purpose
We are looking for a meticulous SDET to contribute to and review the creation of designs for production software. The SDET's responsibilities include both software development and testing tasks and focuses on the testability, robustness, and performance of production software. As such, an SDET is a software professional with advanced programming skills who can create automation testing tools , frameworks to assist the manual testing process and participate in active development. SDETs are responsible not only for writing code but are required to test the code as well.
To be successful as an SDET, you should have excellent time management and organizational skills as well as strong communication skills. You should have a passion for designing, development, and testing and the ability to upgrade your technical skills within the constantly changing technology sector.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.
- Analyzing and disintegrating software systems and coordinating with other teams to enhance the overall design.
- Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.
- Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.
- Create and document test cases
- Automate smoke and regression test cases execute them as part of continuous testing process
- Automate sprint level user stories and its test data generation.
- Work with QA lead/Manager to establish and evolve formal QA automation processes
- Understanding project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.
- Refine backlog of automation test cases
- Produce reports on automation coverage
- Working with deployments teams, resolving level issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.
- Managing the final quality on production release.
- Proactively participate in Agile ceremonies
- Mentor and provide leadership to other SDET engineers
Qualification & Attributes
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.
- Excellent designing and programming skills.
- 4+ years Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium CucumberJS, WebdriverIO, Mocha, Chai or Karate, JEST and other JS based testing frameworks, as well as understanding of common design patterns in test automation such as Page objects, Singleton, Builders
- Knowledge of programming languages and process management methodology.
- Knowledge of test methodologies and their corresponding tools.
- Minimum of 8 years experience in Quality Assurance or Software development.
- Strong knowledge in continuous testing and experience in integrating automation scripts in CI/CD pipeline
- Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
- The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application.
- Worked in a fast phase environment where code is deployed to production on a daily/weekly basis
- Good knowledge in Scrum/Agile methodologies and QA Automation process in SDLC
- Good knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of JavaScript, NodeJS or other programming languages
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good time management and organizational skills.
- The ability to keep current with the constantly changing technology industry.
- A passion for testing, development, and design.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience as a QA automation architect or Senior Developer
- Experience in the testing native mobile app (iOS, Android)
- Experience in release management
- Experience with using log management tools (e.g. LogDNA)