SDET – Java/Python/Web Services Full Time

SALARY:  Market Rate

Our Client:

Our client is the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software for a very large global market.  Their product supports email, instant messaging, social media, mobile messaging, along with mobile, Outlook, and web access.

Overview:

The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is a developer who specializes in writing code to test the product. They work directly with Developers, Product Managers and other SDETs to understand requirements and designs for upcoming changes, and to devise appropriate test strategies for those changes. They design and write the code for automated test cases and perform hands-on testing.

In this role you will be working directly with code in an established automation framework to test back-end services for large scale data processing. You will support the team’s release and testing efforts while growing and maintaining automated coverage and frameworks.

Role Responsibilities:

Define and automate test cases that verify product requirements
Write code to support development of automated frameworks and tests
Execute test cases using both automated and manual techniques
Identify, report and verify software defects
Maintain test infrastructure and tools
Participate in team planning and story grooming
Conduct code reviews, improve and maintain quality of the automation code
Document the automation framework, tools and infrastructure

Technical Skills Requirements:

Minimum 3 years of test development experience
Strong understanding of Java or Python languages
Experience with Junit or pytest
Experience with backend systems or APIs
Experience with testing practices in an agile environment
Experience with any of the following is an asset:
Web services technology such as REST, JSON or Thrift
Network principles and protocols such as HTTP, TLS and TCP
Continuous integration systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo
Performance testing with JMeter or similar tools
Big data technology such as Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka or SQL
Working in a Linux environment
Multi-threaded programming
Design patterns