Senior Developer - Software Tester

WESCO - Glenview, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Glenview, IL

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Senior Developer - Software Tester at WESCO is responsible for enhancing the software development team's capabilities by implementing complex functional testing and test automation. This role involves designing test strategies, creating test plans, and developing automation frameworks to ensure high-quality software delivery. The position also includes mentoring less experienced team members and collaborating closely with various teams to improve overall software design and quality.

Responsibilities

• Select testing tools and provide test automation solutions
• Apply complex application requirements, create, and execute functional test scenarios from user stories
• Perform manual testing, review functional features to determine feasible regression test cases, test automation coverage
• Collaborate with the scrum team, participate in scrum activities such as scrum meetings, sprint refinement, sprint planning, BIG ROOM planning and retro
• Analyze and disintegrate software systems and coordinate with other teams to enhance the overall design
• Create complex automation scripts using Serenity framework, manage/maintain all regression execution on feature levels
• Setup Serenity framework to implement multifaceted automation tests using the framework across Mobile, Desktop devices
• Understand the flow of code and how it interacts with different components and make recommendations for adjustments if required
• Work directly with the DevOps to support test automation to scale up for larger modules or components of software apps; champion Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) and product quality
• Perform proof of concept (POC) on any subjects related to testing, test automation, provide recommendations for action steps
• Collaborate on technical matters with SDST, Developer, and DevOps when problems arise and be able to provide solutions to resolve technical issues
• Create run Cron jobs to auto schedule test automation scripts
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for the most complex fail test scripts and maintain test automation scripts
• Demo the more complex automation scripts to teammates and seek approval when committing code
• Create test automation scripts to test API calls with Rest Assured, Postman

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree in Information Technology or related field preferred
• 5 years of experience in Software Development & Quality Assurance
• Expert experience in test automation using Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin BDD, Appium, eclipse, IntelliJ, API testing with Rest Assured, Postman
• Strong Experience in Serenity framework
• Strong experience in writing clear, concise test case, functional, and end-to-end testing
• Strong experience with Agile software development process and DevOps
• Strong programming skill in Java, Selenium
• Knowledge of programming languages and process management methodology
• Ability to recognize risks and errors in an application
• Solid experience with Behavior Driven Development or Test-Driven Development and experience in programming and testing
• Strong experience for validating microservices patterns, anti-patterns and principles
• Strong in problem solving, a team player and offer inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs
• Experience with layered approach to testing and setting up test framework on large and complex digital products
• Strong Experience with JIRA
• Experience with RDMS, NoSQL
• Experience working on data platform preferred
• Experience with performance, load, reliability and chaos testing preferred
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application preferred

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working on data platform preferred
• Experience with performance, load, reliability and chaos testing preferred
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application preferred