Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript and Java, , with extensive test automation experience
- Experience in building automation test suites from scratch, including backend API and database validation using SQL queries.
- Experience in User Interface and Application Programming Interface automated testing, with test automation tools like Cypress, Selenium, JMeter and Blazemeter.
- Experience with REST and SOAP web services, including API testing and automation.
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining automated tests in a large corporate environment.
- Experience of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience with agile methodologies, including CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Ability to analyze complex issues, develop risk mitigation strategies, and effectively communicate recommendations.
- Experience in testing digital products, such as web applications, Rest API, Kafka Consumers as well as Docker and Kubernetes.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience is designing tests, test strategies and executing it.
- Experience in assessing and assisting teams with test framework design, documentation, management, and quality.
- Experience in leading and mentoring a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) preferred .