Friday, 21 August 2015

Software Design Engineer in Test (Test Automation) | Austin, TX

Job Title: Software Design Engineer in Testing (Test Automation) 
Location: Austin, TX
Duration: 1 Year
Client: DELL

Job Description:
8 SDET (Test Automation)
The team needs individuals with deep software test engineering knowledge to guide and deliver a high-volume, highly personalized ecommerce experience. We are looking for candidates who have a background in engineering test methodologies, with demonstrated successes in developing automation frameworks, comprehensive automation test suites at both the UI and Service layer, with proven abilities to innovate and be creative. We are looking for highly motivated, goal-oriented individuals who will be responsible for building highly visible, highly available, and customer facing ecommerce solutions.

Ideal candidates will have experience in Agile Scrum teams, object-oriented programming and experience in large multi-national corporations. Candidates will be familiar with Microsoft technologies, and will have worked on web sites dealing with very high volumes.

Candidates should be excellent team players, yet capable of working independently, and will be able to manage multiple projects at once. Candidates will work with some direction, will be comfortable leading cross-team test practices, conference calls, and can work collaboratively as a member of very large projects being developed by multi-shore teams.
 
Role Responsibilities
Works closely with clients and Product Owners to continually refine software test requirements and provide feedback on user scenarios
Works closely with Scrum team members to clarify requirements, ensure testability and automatability, to provide feedback on design (functional and technical)
Contributes to impact assessments from Feature enhancements on system level interactions, and existing automated test suites
Conducts In-sprint Test Design, Test planning Test automation development, and Test execution
Participates in Test Case Reviews
Conducts Manual Testing, and uses Exploratory Testing to uncover weaknesses in their test approaches
Writes automated tests for high availability and highly scalable applications which will be used by both internal and external customers
Identifies opportunities for reuse so as to design and implement test automation libraries
Provides Test consultation to Scrum team members to assist them in developing robust Unit Test suites
Is responsible for ensuring quality of their work as well as the work of the entire development team
Investigates new technologies and techniques and researches ongoing industry developments
Works closely with the global development team, Solution Architects, and the Online Product Engineering group to plan ongoing infrastructure needs, feature development, product maintenance, and management of development teams
Logs defects and make recommendations to address defects.
May conduct performance and scalability testing
Development responsibilities include doing code review / bug analysis, analyzing development and test impacts, writing test tools and identifying automation opportunities
Contributes to improvements in unit testing coverage, design test framework, develop test suites, expand automated testing harness and automate scenarios/cases
Candidate should have strong programming, debugging experience, and excellent problem solving skills.
The ability to work closely with product owners, developers, program managers and other test teams, to ensure the quality of the owned components

Requirements
Engineering Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
7+ years of related experience testing web portals and/or ecommerce applications using Microsoft technologies
7+ years of experience in various phases of testing, designing, and developing complex enterprise applications, including automation test development
Expertise in most of the following –Web API (MS ASP.Net), MVC, WCF, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SOAP, REST, JQuery, .Net Framework, C#, Web Services
Practical knowledge of object oriented programming
Practical knowledge in analyzing, designing, and developing solutions to highly complex problems
Good communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information effectively to both IT and business audiences
Practice in Agile Scrum methodology
Familiar with Unit Test, Mock, Test Driven Development etc.
Ability to perform system-wide root cause analyses and drive improvements

We have a very good relationship with the Hiring Manager and for the right candidate we can arrange an interview within a few days.
Look forward to connecting with you.

Thanks & Regards