Principal Sdet

**About Us**

Mindtickle provides a comprehensive, data-driven solution for sales readiness and enablement that fuels revenue growth and brand value for dozens of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and hundreds of the world’s most recognized companies across technology, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, and service sectors.

**Job Brief**

You would collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Architects to understand and influence product design, architecture, and design decisions for testability.

We are looking for a self-driven, detail-oriented, and hands-on technical leader who is passionate about quality, technology, solving interesting and complex engineering problems, and possesses a positive disposition and a collaborative mindset.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Build a complete understanding of business requirements, and primary and customer-facing use cases.
- Develop a strong end-to-end functional and architectural understanding of the feature/product.
- Review the architecture and design with a focus on Correctness, Testability, Performance, Security, Reliability, and Scalability; keeping customer experience at the forefront.
- Define and establish Microservices testing strategies and processes for the identified product streams.
- Define the Test Automation strategy and design test automation frameworks, performance testing frameworks, and SaaS service validation design in the CI/CD pipeline with a focus to achieve well-balanced test coverage across the layers - End-To-End/UI, Service (API, Integration, Component).
- Conduct impact assessment of new and changed areas, conduct code reviews, review the test strategy with a “test-to-fail” mindset and guide the functional teams to ensure high-quality releases.
- Identify, track and address the high impact and prioritized test coverage gaps in the product streams.
- Define, measure and track Quality metrics, and highlight the health and risks through leading indicators.
- Support and collaborate with the QE Managers to achieve their strategic goals for the project and team by providing technical direction.
- Represent the QE organization in the Architect community and contribute towards Proofs-of-Concept (PoCs), evaluation of tools, and thought leadership.

**Requirements**:

- 12+ years of work experience, with at least 2 years experience working in enterprise SaaS platform/product (AWS Cloud).
- Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and implementing robust, reliable cross-functional test automation frameworks for large-scale Enterprise SaaS platforms/products.
- Experience in driving and establishing Microservices testing strategies.
- Experience in developing test automation frameworks for simulating and validating product features with large, heterogeneous and complex data sets.
- Experience in defining, and executing Performance and Load testing strategy for SaaS platform/product with hands-on experience in Performance monitoring tools and experience in analyzing, troubleshooting, and debugging performance bottlenecks.

**Skills Required**:

- Testing: Test-to-fail mindset, Test Planning, Test strategy.
- Cloud Technologies: AWS cloud, Microservices, and Event Driven Architecture, Messaging brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ/AWS SQS/SNS), Serverless (Lambda); REST APIs.
- Programming and Automation: OOPs concepts, Data structures, Algorithms.
- Languages: Golang/Python/Java; Ability to write clean and modular code, develop test harness/tools; Code coverage.
- Performance Testing frameworks/tools: Locust/Gatling/Goose, Flood, Blazemeter.
- Observability and monitoring tools: DataDog, SumoLogic.
- Container and Orchestration: Hands-on experience in Docker, Kubernetes.
- Skills:

- 1) Investigative Skills: Curiosity, keen observation, and an eye for detail; Logical, Analytical, Critical thinking skills; Problem-solving skills.- 2) Excellent written and oral communication skills.**Good to have**:

- Test data modeling and design experience.
- Experience in successful implementation of TDD [Test Driven Development].

**Our Culture**

As an organization, it’s our priority to create a highly engaging and rewarding workplace. We offer tons of awesome perks, great learning opportunities & growth.

But what we enjoy the most about working here is probably the work itself and our colleagues. Check out our glassdoor page (4.7/5) to see why our employees love us.

Our culture reflects the globally diverse backgrounds of our employees along with our commitment to our customers, each other, and a passion for excellence.
- Mindtickle is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer_
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law._
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