Software Development Engineer in Test

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About the Team

About the Role

Join our team as a SDET Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and quality of our platform. You will work closely with development engineers, product and engineering managers to deliver reliable functionality for our platform. You will help streamline UI development core services and build a cohesive set of developer tools and automation. You will contribute to test automation, performance improvements, test stabilization and improve our continuous integration pipeline. Mentor and learn from other team members through pair programming, code reviews, brown bag sessions, etc.

About You

Basic Qualification

• 5+ years of proven experience delivering hands-on coding and scripting using modern languages in automation, with a focus on Java.
• 3+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, ensuring robust and stable build pipeline systems (Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket)
• Champion code quality relentlessly by reviewing code, delivering reliable unit, integration, and system-level tests that run on our platform.
• Experience in crafting test strategies and automation for platform as well as feature focused teams.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable, robust, and performant automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Proficiency in modern automation tools and technologies; experience with Selenium, TestNG, Playwright, Cucumber.
• Improve platform scalability by implementing effective performance and load testing strategies.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying and testing applications.
• Experience with integration technologies (e.g., RESTful APIs, message queues).
Proven collaboration skills with product management, engineering team, and other collaborators to ensure quality throughout the application development.

Other Qualification

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in cross team quality partnerships.
• Passionate about learning & exploring new technologies & tools.

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