Associate Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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What's the role?
As a technical, hands-on Associate Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) your job is to participate in the manual & automation testing of our mobile based application. You will be under the guidance of a Principal SDET of a team with an already-established, mature testing process. Your role will be that of a "full-stack" QA Engineer - someone who has a strong appreciation and skill in software engineering with the capability of writing manual & automated and performance tests (time and training is allotted after hiring to learn our tech stack and frameworks).
 

Our Tech Stack: Node.js, webdriver.io, Mocha, Chai, Cucumber, GitLab, Sauce Labs, Applitools, K6

Responsibilities:

• Develop a robust understanding of the digital products that you and your team support
• Build, enhance, and support those digital products with the guidance of your team
• Participate in peer code reviews and collaborations
• Stays relevant with industry best practices in application development and corresponding white box testing techniques.
• Is aware of Agile testing (Agile testing pyramid/ quadrants, test first methodologies like TDD).
• Understands products, processes, and business domain's systems and data flows within business area to execute application engineering requirements / needs.
• Accurately logs, debugs, and resolves defects.
• Understands what constitutes good requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to an agile team by driving user story analysis and feature grooming, designing, and developing thorough test scripts 
• Automated manual test data creation process by building custom API Routes
• Proven experience on writing complex API tests which interface with upstream services or databases
• Design and implement manual test suites by writing test plan/test cases / etc. 
• Attend and contribute to sprint planning and take ownership of testing responsibility to ensure successful product releases 
• Design, implement and maintain cross-platform test automation scripts
• Maintain the functional test portion of the Continuous Integration pipeline
• Develop and maintain BDD test scenarios and regression plans
• Participate in full test development life cycle including requirements analysis and design
• Work with developers to provide additional research and debugging of issues when more information is needed to resolve problems

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• Knowledge of QA Engineering practices.
• 0-2 years of professional experience as a QA Automation Engineer working in an agile environment
• 0-2 years of mobile Testing Experience (iOS/Android)
• Knowledge of RESTful services automation
• Strong analytic and debugging skills
• Thorough understanding of QA concepts, STLC, SDLC, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment
• Demonstrated experience in automating tests with using JS, Java, Python, or other languages
• Solid understanding of different element locator strategies and the ability to write custom XPath, CSS Path
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, REST APIs, JSON, RDBMS, XML/YAML. XCODE, ANDROID STUDIO
• Experience with Git, Jira
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous learning mindset
• Ability to dissect problems and recommend solutions
• Has basic knowledge of programming languages relevant to the context of the work.
• Ability to handle straight-forward tasks
• Understands typical application design and white box testing techniques
• Awareness of, best practices in both white box and black box testing.
• Has basic awareness of key technologies needed to successfully test?
• Has awareness of how their work contributes to NM's business
• Understands metrics and reports on SDLC.
• 4-year bachelor’s degree (preferred) or Associate's Degree in Information Technology/equivalent or applicable technical experience.

Benefits:

• Whip-smart team that is very friendly and always willing to lend a hand.
• Tons of room for career growth. Test engineering team especially is growing rapidly.
• Highly competitive salary
• Outstanding Benefits

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