Staff Software Development Engineer

About the job the role :

The Senior Staff Software Development Engineer in Test position is a hands-onlead role that will oversee the work of a small group of SDETs and test engineers and will be responsible for all aspects of test automation including web, mobile, API, microservice, and white box testing efforts.
The role contributes to the success by delivering the tools and automation-driven testing landscape for our evolving platform and applications, as it relates to the delivery of our omni-channel applications.

Role and Responsibilities :

- Guide the work of a group of SDETs in one or more functional areas with responsibility for all aspects of test automation including framework enhancements & being an evangelist of quality.

- Review source code for potential problems, help debug & triage issues and isolate fixes.

- Guide tool analysis, create proof of concept models, and make recommendations to support the tools selection process.

- Analyze, recommend, and implement industry best practices for coding guidelines, peer reviews, git workflow, process workflow, quality gates, CI/CD process, etc.

- Actively participate in reviews (walkthroughs) of technical specifications and program code with architects & developers, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality, and limitations of systems/applications to the team.

- Promote Quality engineering processes, practices, and standards both within and across teams.

- Enable CI/CD integration for various automated test suites.

- Ensure proper test reporting, alerting, and quality gates are defined and enforced.

- Continuously evaluate opportunities for improvements.

- Invest in building robust data seeding techniques and test execution techniques to get reliable test results.

- Collaborate with other teams including Release Management, SRE, Performance Engineering, Project Management, and Application Support teams for the successful delivery of new system features.

- Proactively involved with product owners from feature inception through functional validation to launch, while always looking for potential quality issues.

- Design and document comprehensive test strategies, testing guidelines, standard operating procedures, utilities, and tool to improve the efficiency of test automation.

- Triage customer issues, analyze production metrics, and provide root cause analysis to the engineers, and recommend system hardening measures.

- Knowledge and awareness of which customers are receiving new code/updates according to the Release Schedule.

- Provides guidance to SDETs and Associates and Seniors.

- Serves as a SME for multiple areas of application and monitors the success of their mentees.

- Provides oversight over a small group of SDETs.

- Ensure they are following SOP and adhering to design and coding guidelines.

- Proactively provide updates/reports to Sr.

Leadership :

- Lead the maintenance of the test environments, test data creations, ensuring they are consistent with staging/production configurations.

- Work closely with SRE and Technical Implementations coming up with tooling to improve environment stability, accuracy, and maintenance.

Job Requirement :

- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree.

- Bachelors degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field

- Proficient in coding with the breadth of knowledge up and down the technology stack and extensive implementation of object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, system architecture, etc, in one or more programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, JS or similar.

- Familiar with Terraforms, Shell scripting, and Powershell scripting.

- Expert in various full stack - open source testing or COTS tools such as Selenium/ Cypress/ Playwright for Web testing, Appium/Espresso for Mobile testing and Rest Assured/ Http Client for API testing.

- Proven track record in evaluating various tools and framework, setting best practices, coding guidelines and review process.

- Well versed in building, maintaining and enhancing test automation framework using industry best practice such as page-object model, data-driven framework, behavioral driven development, etc using testing framework such as JUnit, NUnit, TestNg, Pytest or Cucumber.

- Experience in setting up Git workflow (eg : Bitbucket, Gitlab), build automation tools (Gradle, Maven, Nuget etc), and artifact management using tools like JFrog, Proget, etc.

- Experience in establishing various automated quality gates and enabling automated test execution on cloud devices (Saucelabs/ Browserstack) using various CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, CircleCI, etc.

- Expert in building test strategies, test plans, and automation strategies with a variety of test types such as Smoke, Functional, Regression testing, etc.

using various test case optimization techniques.

- Working knowledge of Agile/DevOps development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

- Working knowledge of relational databases (eg : SQL Server, Postgres) and non-relational databases (eg : MongoDB, DynamoDB).

- Ability to write complex queries including Joins, Aggregate functions, etc.

- Ability to point out the underlying challenges in data architecture, store procedures using database monitors/profilers, etc.

- Experience to Whitebox Testing techniques (Unit & Integration tests), including the use of tools like SonarQube, JaCoCO, etc.

- Reviewing the automated checks on code quality and coverage.

- Exposure to performance testing practices using tools like JMeter, Gatling, etc.

- Knowledge of different API architectures such as REST, GraphQL, Webhooks,WCF, and gRPC protocols.

- UI architectures /concepts such as Micro frontend, single page applications, etc.

- Well-versed in testing and reviewing different layers in Microservice architecture (Kafka,SQS), Kubernetes platform, and Service virtualization to improve testability.

- Experience in designing and improving test workflows and processes.

- Experience in creating quality metrics, and analyzing metrics to understand trends and risks.

- A seasoned collaborator, extremely effective at cross-functional collaboration i.

bringing Product, Design and Engineering together, apt in decision making & project management.

- Ability to pull logs from different environments (Production, Staging, Integrated environments) and resolve difficult to reproduce scenarios.

- Must be comfortable with PagerDuty for Production errors, heavy involvement with SRE, and troubleshoot for owned areas as well as assisting other SDETs

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred :

- An accomplished technologist passionate about System Design and Architecture with a breadth of knowledge across the technology landscape, and depth in automation and test strategies.

- Extensive experience being a coach to the team, well versed in evaluating SDET candidates and building a high-performing team

(ref:hirist.tech)

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