Software Engineering Technical Lead

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Technical Lead to spearhead our team's System Design and Architecture initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guide a group of SDETs in one or more functional areas, overseeing all aspects of test automation including framework enhancements.
• Analyze source code for potential problems, assist in debugging & triaging issues, and isolate fixes.
• Review tool analysis, create proof-of-concept models, and make recommendations to support the tools selection process.
• Evaluate industry best practices for coding guidelines, peer reviews, Git workflow, process workflow, quality gates, CI/CD process, etc., and implement improvements.
• Participate in technical specification and program code reviews with architects & developers.
• Promote Quality engineering processes, practices, and standards within and across teams.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines for various automated test suites.
• Establish proper test reporting, alerting, and quality gates.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities for improvement.
• Benchmark data seeding techniques and test execution methods to ensure reliable test results.
• Collaborate with Release Management, SRE, Performance Engineering, Project Management, and Application Support teams for successful system feature delivery.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies, testing guidelines, standard operating procedures, utilities, and tools to optimize test automation efficiency.
• Triage customer issues, analyze production metrics, and provide root cause analysis to engineers, recommending system hardening measures.
• Provide guidance to SDETs and Associates, serving as a SME for multiple application areas and monitoring mentee success.
• Oversee a small group of SDETs, ensuring they follow SOPs and adhere to design and coding guidelines.
• Proactively report updates and insights to Sr. Leadership.
• Maintain test environments, ensuring consistency with staging/production configurations.
• Work closely with SRE and Technical Implementations to develop tooling for environment stability, accuracy, and maintenance.

A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is required. A minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, or 8 years with an advanced degree, is also expected.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, system architecture, and extensive implementation in C#, Java, Python, JS, or similar languages.
• Expertise in full-stack open-source testing or COTS tools, such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Espresso, Rest Assured, or HttpClient.
• Strong background in evaluating tools and frameworks, setting best practices, and implementing coding guidelines and review processes.
• Experience with building, maintaining, and enhancing test automation frameworks using page-object models, data-driven frameworks, behavioral-driven development, JUnit, NUnit, TestNg, Pytest, or Cucumber.
• Familiarity with Git workflow (e.g., Bitbucket, Gitlab), build automation tools (Gradle, Maven, Nuget), and artifact management using tools like JFrog or Proget.
• Knowledge of establishing automated quality gates, enabling automated test execution on cloud devices (Saucelabs/Browser stack) using CI/CD tools like Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, CircleCI, etc.
• Ability to write complex queries, point out underlying challenges in data architecture, store procedures, and database monitors/profilers.
• Experience with WhiteBox Testing techniques (Unit & Integration tests), reviewing automated checks on code quality and coverage, and exposure to performance testing practices using JMeter, Gatling, etc.
• Understanding of different API architectures (REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, WCF, gRPC), UI architectures (Micro frontend, Single Page Applications), and testing/messaging architectures (Kafka, SQS).
• Strong analytical skills, ability to create quality metrics, and analyze trends and risks.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to pull logs from different environments and resolve difficult-to-reproduce scenarios.
• Comfortable with PagerDuty for Production errors, heavy involvement with SRE, and troubleshooting for owned areas as well as assisting other SDETs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Candidates with a passion for System Design and Architecture, with a breadth of knowledge across the technology landscape, and depth in automation and test strategies are preferred.

Leadership Experience:

• Extensive experience as a coach to the team, evaluating SDET candidates, and building high-performing teams.