Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (sdet)- Qa Job in Zl Technologies

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will play a vital role in ensuring that our visionary data management, governance, and analytics software, work reliably and efficiently at Internet-scale, enabling key policy- and decision-makers to take data-informed actions that improve the communities they serve.

We are looking for an experienced, pragmatic, and resolute tester to move our testing practices to the next level: thinking critically about what, when, and how to test; improving existing and building new automation tooling where practical; expanding test coverage; and supporting other testers. We need someone excited about engaging with designers and product owners to ensure requirements are testable, with engineers to ensure their work can be tested, and with release managers so everyone is clear about what s going out in upcoming releases and is ready to roll.

While focused on the future, you will need to be prepared to grab a pick-and-shovel, performing interactive testing to support our releases while instituting change by example and through advocacy for improvements in practices and tooling.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Review test strategies, plans, test cases and coverage and provide input to risks based on product requirements
• Develop automated tests, test harnesses, and applications and services under test
• Interact with Quality Assurance team and our partners to understand systems and component specifications and recommend changes to facilitate efficient and effective testing
• Leverage prior experience to enhance our CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate directly with software developers, product managers, and business analysts to ensure proper development and quality of applications and products
• Drive testability and diagnostic ability into products
• Participate in efforts to share automation testing technology and expertise within the company
• Perform tasks to meet project deadlines and work together with team to ensure project success
• Help define and participate in software development processes that leverages best practice and supports continuous product delivery
• Participate in regular peer design and code reviews
• Conform to coding conventions and all aspects of the software development life cycle
• Participate in scrum ceremonies
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

WHAT YOU BRING

• Master s Degree in an Engineering discipline, OR a bachelor s degree and 4+ years of professional software engineering experience or an equivalent experience
• Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: .NET, Python or Java
• Experience in testing enterprise level systems and applications
• Working Experience with API testing and test automation frameworks and tools
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD implementations and the ability to develop scripts and parameters
• Significant experience in quality assurance processes, software lifecycle, testing, planning, execution & defect tracking
• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies
• Strong experience developing high quality automation frameworks
• Experience with automation, web deployment and engineering environment tools such as Mocha, Jasmine, JIRA, Github, Gitlab
• Experience in testing applications on Cloud infrastructure, including Azure and Amazon Web Services as well as on prem deployments
• Experience with Security testing and static analysis tools
• Experience in querying complex schemas and relational databases

Proven knowledge of a standard software quality assurance methodology, components, deliverables, and how these integrate within the software development lifecycle