Software Test Engineer

Job Expectations + Essential Functions

• Work in a dynamic agile software development team with very high quality standards.
• Create and maintain test cases. Maintain and update regression testing scripts to close test escapes
• Participate in the design and development our automation framework, libraries, and microservices
• Perform exploratory testing, integration testing, regression testing, automated testing
• Troubleshoot complex software and system issues; drive root cause understanding and implement corrective actions; verify resolved issues; provide timely communications back to customers and key stakeholders.
• Create test reports of errors with supporting traces, log files, and clear descriptions
• Participate in code review and reviews of automated test cases
• Ensure code releases, revisions and builds are controlled and consistent with our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery system
• Participate in development and reviews of processes, procedures, standards, and tools, all within an Agile development framework
• Develop automated metrics for our development dashboards to allow the data do the talking.
• Keep job knowledge current by studying state-of-the-art development and test tools and programming techniques; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations

Required Technical Skills

• 5+ years’ experience in software test automation for web or mobile applications
• Experience with TDD/ ATDD/ BDD and test tools such as Selenium, Cucumber
• Experienced in best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing methodologies and patterns, and release engineering.
• Experience automating the validation of modern user interfaces and messaging infrastructures
• Experience with evaluating and integrating open source and in house developed toolsets
• Strong object-oriented programming skills
• Proficient with scripting languages like Bash, Python.
• Proficient with web languages and technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, C#, React or Angular, SQL and NoSQL databases, REST APIs

Highly Desired

Experience in the following areas:

• Cloud technologies
• IoT systems
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins
• Performance Testing and optimization, load testing
• Application Security testing