Sr. Staff Sdet

About ANSR Summit Consulting ANSR is a market leader in enabling organizations to build manage and scale global teams through Global Capability Centers GCCs We provide full life-cycle services including GCC design set up and enabling operations For over 18 years companies cutting across size industry and markets have relied on ANSR s expertise to successfully build global business and technology teams Since its inception ANSR has established over 90 GCCs Our experience spans across industries including retail CPG banking insurance travel transportation and healthcare We operate in supply-rich locations like India Central and Eastern Europe South America Canada and Southeast Asia Job Requirement Typically requires a minimum of 13 to 17 years of related experience 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 Browser stack 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 with 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 Event-driven messaging 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 e 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 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 tools 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 Ensures 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