The Software Development Engineer in Test 3 will be responsible for providing automated testing services in support of our development efforts.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
- 4 + years of relevant professional work experience writing automated tests in Ruby and additional experience with manual testing. Internships or professional jobs held as a student count towards this experience.
- Experience with Ruby: rbenv, bundler, Cucumber, RSpec and/or Selenium
- Familiar with testing web applications with popular web browsers (IE, Chrome, and Firefox)
- Experience using and maintaining local and remote virtual machines for testing
- Experience with command-line tools under Linux or OS X
- Familiar with using Git for working with repositories, including branching and merging
- At least somewhat familiar with Jenkins, Docker, and/or BrowserStack (or similar products/services)
- Familiar with working on products through their release in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Able to deal with features with poor, outdated, or no design documentation
- Able to work, with minimal supervision, on a distributed team, escalating issues as necessary
- Willing to mentor other SDETs and QA engineers on development and test automation
- Understand the risks and opportunities offered by automated testing
- View the developer/QA engineer relationship as collaborative, not adversarial
- Like to work with people, not just computers Willing to learn new development languages, tools, and techniques
- Able, as needed, to execute, report on, create, and maintain manual test cases
- Are comfortable coloring outside the lines of your role (and comfortable with your teammates doing the same)
- Are interested in and stay on top of industry trends
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Create and maintain automated test cases and suites against web applications/services using Ruby
- Own automated test coverage for a particular product
- Support Agile teams for a product line as an advocate for quality and the customer experience
- Assist QA leadership with establishing and enforcing department policies and procedures
- Assist less senior team members with learning/complying with policies
- Implement test case automation for test cases as identified by manual and automated test engineers
- Spend up to 30% of your time also assisting with manual testing activities as needed
- Work with manual test engineers to identify test cases to automate and prioritize the automation work backlog
- Provision and maintain virtual machines for testing
- Lead efforts to build and improve QA tools and infrastructure
- Mentor and review the work of less senior SDETs
- Review merge requests
- Act as a subject matter expert for test automation and possibly some development tools/principles
- Additional duties as assigned
Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s degree is preferred
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