Principal Quality Engineer - SDET

The Challenge

We are looking for a Principal-level SDET to support our product development teams. As the Principal SDET, you will play a crucial role in shaping and leading our software testing strategy. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing robust test automation frameworks, mentoring a team of SDETs (Software Development Engineer in Test), and ensuring the overall quality and reliability of our software products.

Your Mission

As a Principal SDET, you will:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the SDET team.
• Collaborate with development and QE (Quality Engineering) teams to integrate testing into the software development process.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient test automation frameworks and test architectures.
• Rub shoulders with developers in writing unit and integration tests using their tools and frameworks.
• Ensure the frameworks support various testing types, including functional, integration, and performance testing.
• Mentor and guide junior SDETs, providing technical expertise and career development support.
• Conduct training sessions to enhance the skills of the testing team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive test plans.
• Execute and oversee the execution of test cases, ensuring thorough coverage of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Analyze test results and provide meaningful insights to improve product quality.
• Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and user stories.
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, providing clear updates on testing progress and issues.
• Add, maintain, and update scripts in existing automation suite, helping with running the suite across various checkpoints in the release cycle.
• Participate in various POCs (Proof of Concept) to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to product offerings.
• Conduct peer reviews of test code and automation frameworks.

You Are

You are a seasoned SDET with an automate anything anywhere attitude who is looking for a challenging technical leadership role in a dynamic and innovative company. You can efficiently find the underlying cause of a failure (in an integrated environment) and alert the right team. You are consistently willing to pitch in to support a long running deployment, even after hours. You are willing to learn and pick up new skillsets to support the ever-changing technology landscape like Cloud computing & AI (Artificial Intelligence). You can understand complex product and deployment architectures and create efficient test solutions. You want to be part of a team that is passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical or business field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience working as a developer, automation engineer or SDET.
• 8+ years of experience coding in Java and must have strong practical knowledge of OOPs and Core Java principles.
• 4+ years of experience contributing to Test-Driven Development or BDD (Behavior Driven Development) with tools like Cucumber, Junit, Mockito, or TestNG.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, or Azure DevOps with the ability to create test pipelines using Java or Groovy.
• 4+ years of experience with Selenium or Cypress frameworks for automating GUI (User Interface) and E2E tests of the application.
• 4+ years of experience with REST Assured or similar tools like Postman for automating APIs.
• 4+ years of experience working in a highly automated CI/CD environment.
• 4+ years of experience with source control tools such as Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab.
• 2+ years of experience mining meaningful logs for troubleshooting using tools like Splunk, Dynatrace or Coralogix.
• 3+ years of experience working in a cloud shop preferably Azure with exposure to various Azure services like Gateways, Redis, Storage, VMs (virtual machines) and Kubernetes clusters.
• 3+ years of experience in testing mobile applications, both native and websites using Appium on both real devices and simulators either in a private farm of 3rd party vendors like Sauce Labs or BrowserStack.
• 4+ years of experience working with geographically distributed teams in US, Canada, and India.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative, solve problems independently and mentor others.
• Passion for high-quality work and attention to detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Extra Awesome

• Prior exposure to AI/ML systems and how to use them in testing thus making test pipeline more intelligent.
• Experience in analyzing the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Network usage, Garbage Collection and DB Parameters and DB Reports to verify the performance of the applications.
• Ability to spin up scalable test architecture using Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Kubernetes and extended usage patterns for test grids, auto scale properties.