Software QA Engineer

Autodesk

3.9

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Why you should apply for a job to Autodesk:

  • 56% say women are treated fairly and equally to men

  • 71% say the CEO supports gender diversity

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Paid parental and maternity leaves, as well as up to $10k per calendar year for adoption, IVF, & other fertility services.

  • Paid discretionary time off for salaried employees plus a 6-week paid sabbatical after every 4 years of service.

  • A flexible workplace for most roles that meets business needs, while supporting employees with office, hybrid & remote work preferences.

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    Position summary

    Job Requisition ID #

    23WD69774

    Position Overview

    Are you an experienced SDET with an interest in sustainable software quality best practices and tools? Do you enjoy steering and supporting development teams to deliver the highest quality software into the hands of your customers? Are you proactive, open minded in your approach to problem solving, and keen to add value to your team? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

    At Autodesk, we are reinventing how everything you see or touch is imagined, designed and created. In Autodesk Construction Cloud, we are reinventing how every building, bridge, hospital, campus and stadium is built. Our platform allows customers to effectively and easily manage the complex collaboration and coordination necessary to see their projects through all phases of construction.

    The BIM for Construction team is responsible for a range of desktop and web-based products contributing to our BIM Collaborate and BIM Collaborate Pro solutions. As a Senior QA Engineer joining our global team, you will create and contribute to automated tests, frameworks and processes, to help measure, ensure and improve the quality of these products. We are looking for someone who can educate and support teams to better consider and integrate quality best practices into their work. We are seeking individuals who are attracted to complicated problems, who can think creatively and work hard to solve them.

    Responsibilities

    • Design and develop automated tests, tools and frameworks capable of validating software components, to ensure development teams can achieve our quality targets.
    • Write and maintain code to integrate automated quality processes with existing CI/CD pipelines.
    • Coach developers and teams on sustainable testing best practices.
    • Be open to the occasional need to write and execute manual test cases to support releases.
    • Work collaboratively alongside developers and other QA team members to inform and influence the shape and direction of our quality processes and tooling.
    • Stay up to date with the latest testing technologies from the software development industry. Leverage your knowledge and experience of testing frameworks and technologies to steer and support decision making.

    Minimum Qualifications

    • 5+ years of SDET experience.
    • Demonstrable understanding of software testing concepts, practices and procedures, and recognition of their various costs and benefits.
    • Experience of working with multiple testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Selenium, TestComplete).

    Preferred qualifications

    • Experience of automating both desktop and web, with an understanding of the nuanced differences in their requirements.
    • Experience of architecting a feature-rich and extendable test platform.
    • Experience of coaching engineers into approaching their development work with a ‘testing mindset’.

    At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

    Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk? Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site). If you have any questions or require support, contact Autodesk Careers.

    Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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    What are Autodesk perks and benefits

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    Care-taking PTO

    Elder care

    Unconscious bias training

    Networking

    Sponsorship program

    Succession planning

    Diversity recruiting

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    Sabbatical

    Coaching

    Remote work policy

    Paid paternity

    Paid maternity

    Paid adoptive

    Unpaid maternity

    Unpaid paternity

    Short term disability

    About the company

    Industry: Technology: Software

    From the greenest buildings to the cleanest cars, from the smartest factories to the biggest stories, amazing things are created every day with Autodesk. Over four decades we’ve worked together with our customers to transform how things are made, and in doing so, we’ve also transformed what can be made. A car’s performance now inspires the method of its manufacture, a city’s ...

    Why you should apply for a job to Autodesk:

  • 56% say women are treated fairly and equally to men

  • 71% say the CEO supports gender diversity

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Paid parental and maternity leaves, as well as up to $10k per calendar year for adoption, IVF, & other fertility services.

  • Paid discretionary time off for salaried employees plus a 6-week paid sabbatical after every 4 years of service.

  • A flexible workplace for most roles that meets business needs, while supporting employees with office, hybrid & remote work preferences.