Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - IT MINDS L.L.C.

Job Title: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location : Vienna, VA/ Pensacola, FL/ San Diego, CA/ Jacksonville, FL

Duration : Long term Contract

Note: Hybrid Days in-office requirement: 2 days a week

Top Skills:

Full Stack SDET (Front-End and Back-End Automation Test Exp Required)

Top 3 Required Skills:

Hands-on development/coding (Java)
Hand on experience with UI+API+DB automation testing
Hands experience on a wide variety of testing techniques and types and STLC process

Top 3 Desired Skills:
Hands-on development/coding (Java)
Hand on experience with UI+API+DB automation testing
Hands experience on a wide variety of testing techniques and types and STLC process

Basic Purpose:
The Digital Delivery team develops innovative member and team member experiences that leverage the latest technologies in open source and the Azure cloud. Digital Delivery team is responsible for engineering modern web applications to implement a complete UI and micro services for multi device, multi-platform mobile and desktop web applications. As a member of this team your role will be a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) working in a Scrum environment, you will test software applications and features using test suites and scripts, perform anomaly reporting, software analysis, develop automated software test packages using various technologies, perform functional and performance testing.
Additionally, SDET is responsible for providing support for one or more existing software applications. This includes application issue-analysis/resolution, configuration, managing security/permissions, and providing assistance to users. They would also collaborate with other divisions of Client's primarily ISD Cloud team.

Responsibilities:
Work with engineers to troubleshoot and remediate automation issues in testing and deploying environments
Work alongside developers as well as the business stakeholders and strive to automate the acceptance criteria
Understand, and implement agile development methodologies while working with teams using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile
Understand project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases
Test complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems
Support non-functional requirements such as, performance testing
Set up, maintain, and perform test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests
Participate in all agile ceremonies (standups, planning, backlog refinement, reviews, etc.) ensuring QA and testing is continuously represented and effectively incorporated into all aspects of the project
Own end-to-end test strategy, analyze requirements, build test plan, design test cases and implement test automation for applications of moderate to high complexity
Manage the final quality on production release
Develop, execute, and maintain automation test scripts to meet software release deliverables, project testing requirements and other quality considerations
Develop smoke, functional, regression, and integration test suites for UI, API Services, and databases
Develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automated means (when needed)
Design customer centric automation test processes for all existing and new product development
Apply a strong understanding of software testing/delivery to build and maintain automated test harnesses and test suites using scripting languages and industry tools
Ability to advocate for Improvements in automation engineering efforts to the executive management team


Qualifications:
At least 5 years overall SDET and/or development hands on experience.
At least 2 years of mobile apps test automation experience in Android and/or iOS, Web, API
At least 4 years of professional experience in software test automation, including creation and deployment of frameworks and design and maintenance of test automation
At least 2 years of API Automation Testing.
Experience with agile development methodology
Experience with Cl/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.
Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), BDD Behavior Driven Development, and Agile (XP)
Experience with Test processes, open-source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in Java with frameworks like JUnit/TestNG, Selenium, JMeter and Appium
Experience working with a ticketing system such as Service Now or Jira
Hands on experience with any cloud technology platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
Must have hands on experience in Selenium Scripting, and SQL querying
Must have hands on experience utilizing cloud hosted testing platforms such as Perfecto.
Proficient in debugging issues.
Proficient in Java
Proficient in writing functional automation (UI/API)