Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Genesis10 - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Atlanta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with our client in the transportation industry in their Atlanta, GA location. This is a 12 month + contract position. Our client is on a journey to becoming the best IT organization in the airline industry, a journey of transformation. They are changing the way we do business from top to bottom as we strive to create meaningful and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help us realize our vision. As a Sr. SDET, you will play a crucial role in this transformation by designing, developing, executing, and maintaining software to test the product/application. You will define automation strategies, create automation cases, and design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner. Your responsibilities will also include participating in design and code inspections, proposing improvements to existing processes, and building automated tools, libraries, and utilities to enhance the team's speed, quality, and efficiency. In this role, you will expose defects in production-level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration perspective. You will work with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web services. You will own the design and implementation of tests that will help ensure the end-to-end quality of major deliverables, working closely with multiple engineers and teams to execute them. Additionally, you will integrate both the tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline and contribute to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principles. Collaboration within a team environment will be key to your success in this position.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute and maintain software to test the product/application
• Define automation strategy, automation cases as well as design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner
• Participate in design and code inspections
• Propose improvements to existing processes and build automated tools, libraries, and utilities to improve the team's speed, quality, and efficiency
• Expose defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration perspective
• Work with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web services
• Own the design and implementation of tests that will help in end-to-end quality of major deliverables
• Integrate both the tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline
• Contribute to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principles
• Collaborate effectively within team environment

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in test automation of applications from UI and API layer
• Hands-on experience of writing, maintaining automated UI and APIs tests written in Java, JavaScript, C#, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc.
• Hands-on experience in OOPs languages like Java, C# and scripting languages like Python, Perl, Shell, Bash etc.
• Experience with API and Microservices testing and automation
• Knowledge and experience with Test Driven Development(TDD), Behavior Driven Development(BDD) with a testing framework like Cucumber, JBehave
• Hands-on experience with one or more querying languages such SQL (preferred), Oracle, MySQL and/or No SQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience deploying applications in AWS or OpenShift (Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience in automating backend REST services including writing custom functions using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Karate, Cypress, Ready API, etc.
• Hands-on experience of building test automation framework from ground up using modular framework and design pattern like Page Object Model design pattern (POM), etc.
• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe, XP, etc.
• Hands-on experience of working with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Circle CI
• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs using tools such as Jenkins
• Hands-on experience working with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit, etc.
• Hands-on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report, etc.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies
• Ability to clearly communicate with peers, business analysts, and subject matter experts
• Ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge and experience with the Travel Industry
• Infrastructure automation using docker and tools like Chef, Puppet, Terraform
• Experience of working with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, s3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, etc.
• Hands-on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito, etc.
• Experience of working with test management and agile management tools such as VersionOne, qTest, etc.
• Experience of working with container orchestration tools such as docker, RED Hat OpenShift, AWS CloudFormation
• Experience of non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, accessibility and usability testing

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
• Remote opportunities available