SDET Consultant

At Global Payments Asia-Pacific India Private Limited, we're committed to delivering best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. As a SDET Consultant, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products.

• Participate in the complete development process as a subject matter expert to ensure an approach of built-in quality at all stages.
• Apply SME knowledge in a collaborative software development approach for quality assurance at the source using a high degree of automation.
• Guide and implement processes to assess development impacts to regression suites, testability of code, application performance, and take measures to eliminate impacts to continuous testing.
• Provide SME level guidance to ensure timely quality checks along with updating of automation scripts.
• Provide SME advice on best practices to facilitate test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) to provide early and frequent testing as the software is developed.
• Act as the SME to recommend and guide implementation of process improvements and continuous quality measures across the development lifecycle.
• Act as the SME in the use of unit testing tools and tools for implementing TDD and BDD.
• Write and execute application tests at the source code level to prevent hidden errors (i.e., white box testing) within unit and component testing.
• Provide expert guidance for improvements of code quality for issues ranging from functionality to structure of code for performance and maintainability.
• Provide expert guidance for building complex unit and component test suites and conducts automated white box tests.
• Design ongoing maintainability of test suites along with ease of automated execution of white box tests at frequent cycles.
• Integrate white box test suites with continuous integration (CI) tools.
• Program and create complex test cases using unit and component testing tools for code-level testing.
• Review and guide creation of test suites for maintainability.
• Provide expert guidance for developing software tools, frameworks, and utilities that will be used for validation and verification activities, and end-to-end functional testing of software.
• Design and create automated tools for generic use and maintainability.
• Guide and design processes that manage testing organization and test data for ease of use and long-term maintainability by frameworks.
• Provide SME expertise on design and development of frameworks for testing of non-user interface (UI) components like application program interface (API), representational state transfer API (RESTful API), and web services similar to the end user.
• Provide SME level guidance on integration of automated suites with continuous integration (CI) tools for frequent execution.
• Install and use complex CI frameworks for use in continuous testing and continuous deployment/deployment.
• Provide expert guidance for software deployment and CI frameworks for use in continuous testing and continuous deployment/deployment.
• Provide expert guidance in building, customizing, and deployment of test environments and test automation frameworks promoting and incorporating industry CI best practices.
• Apply SME knowledge to design and maintain complex automation infrastructure throughout development.
• Provide SME expertise in recommending and integrating CI tools with other testing infrastructure and configuring complex reporting/metrics on CI.
• Make decisions and implement new advances in CI space.
• Apply expert knowledge in use of performance, load, security, and service virtualization testing tools to conduct testing, analysis, and interpret results.
• Promote and provide SME advice on best practices to build, script, generate data, and run performance, load, security, and service virtualization testing.
• Provide guidance on design and implementation guidance to create performance, load, security, and service virtualization testing frameworks for standardized use/reuse and maintainability of security testing frameworks.
• Provide SME level advice on maintaining and administering procedures, methodology, and/or application standards to include payment card industry and security-related compliance.
• Provide SME guidance for incorporating performance, load, and security testing into CI environments and deploying frequent testing of service virtualization close to the CI paradigm.
• Collaborate and partner with stakeholders, business, developers, and test analysts to develop complex test plans, conditions, and cases (set of inputs, execution preconditions, and expected outcomes developed for a particular objective, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a specific requirement) to be used in testing.
• Use experience to make insightful and logical decisions on plans, conditions, and cases.
• Develop, administer, and recommend best practices to perform specialized and in-depth test data conditioning and execution of test sets.
• Communicate with manager on a regular basis (project requirements, issues resolutions, etc.), and disseminate information to project sponsors, business analysts, and programmers.
• Evaluate, interpret, and provide guidance on the various components of systems, applications, and multiple environments and advise leadership on complex issues.
• Act as a single point of contact for large and/or highly complex client projects with regard to test activities and provide expertise to other Test Analyst.
• Coordinate the test activities assigned to the test team to include, reviewing of client test plans cases and scripts, prioritizing test execution when necessary, and providing feedback to internal and external clients.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree - Software Engineering, Information Systems, or other Technical degree; additional experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
• Typically Minimum 8 Years Relevant Exp - Professional experience with Software testing, coding, designing, and developing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree - Software Engineering, Information Systems, or other Technical degree.
• Typically Minimum 5-10 Years Relevant Exp - Experience developing automated testing strategies in a variety of environments and frameworks.

• Skills/Knowledge - Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Barriers to entry such as technical committee review may exist at this level.
• Job Complexity - Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.
• Supervision - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. May supervise the activities of others.
• Software Development Life Cycle/Testing Methodologies - Agile - Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, etc.
• Programming Languages - Java, C#, Perl, Python, Groovy, Oracle, SQL, etc.
• Testing tools - Application Lifecycle Management, Unit Testing, Security, Application Programming Interface, Mobile, Continuous Integration, Service Virtualization, etc.