SR Software Development Test Engineer, Level 3; Remote

Description

This position will support our FedRAMP program and therefore requires U.S. citizenship in compliance with federal regulations. Candidates must be U.S. citizens to be considered

Reporting to the Director of Quality Engineering, the senior‑level Software Development Test Engineer will be responsible for leading the testing efforts for one or more product applications and ensuring high quality releases for our customers.

• Support multiple Agile teams as an advocate for quality and the customer experience
• Own automated test coverage for one or more product(s) your product team is responsible for
• Provide status updates and feedback to your team and manager
• Learn, understand, and maintain manual and automated testing policies and other QA documentation
• Assist QA leadership with establishing and enforcing department policies and procedures
• Assist less senior team members with learning/complying with policies
• Create and maintain automated test cases and suites against web applications and services, using ruby and possibly Java and/or .NET, delegating to less senior SDETs as needed
• Implement test case automation for test cases as identified by manual and automated test engineers, maintaining test automation to a standard of coverage
• Spend some of your time assisting with manual testing activities as needed
• Perform very complex quality assurance/automated testing activities as needed
• Work with manual test engineers to identify test cases to automate and prioritize the automation work backlog
• Provision and maintain virtual machines for testing and perform other QA Dev Ops tasks as needed
• Lead efforts to build and improve QA tools and infrastructure
• Contribute to and validate acceptance criteria
• Contribute to story work estimates and sprint commitments
• Represent your product's QA team(s) with the larger product team
• Mentor and review the work of less senior SDETs
• As needed, assist with reviewing merge requests and other development work performed by development engineers
• Act as a subject matter expert for test automation and possibly some development tools/principles
• Communicate and demonstrate Cofense's values and principles

• Willing to learn new development languages, tools, and techniques
• Self‑motivated
• Proficient at written and verbal communication, with English fluency in both
• Able to prepare test plans and estimates and track progress on quality efforts
• Proficient with multiple automated and manual testing tools and techniques
• Proficient with CI/CD methodology and tools:
  Jenkins, Docker, Git Labs CI
• Proficient with Cloud Native development and interacting with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc)
• Proficient with Microsoft O365 tenants and Graph API
• Able, as needed, to execute, report on, create, and maintain manual test cases
• Familiar with testing using recent Windows and Apple operating systems
• Familiar with testing web applications with popular web browsers (in particular, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox)
• Familiar with using and maintaining local and remote virtual machines for testing (VMWare ESXi)
• Familiar with both behavioral and clear box testing (a.k.a. black box and white box testing)
• Familiar with browser and platform compatibility testing
• Familiar using SQL with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Familiar with testing microservice architectures
• Familiar with command‑line tools under Linux, OS X, and/or Windows
• Familiar with (when relevant):
  • Ruby: rvm, bundler, cucumber, rspec, Factory Bot, and Selenium
  • Java: maven, cucumber, mockito/spock, and Selenium
  • .NET: specflow, nspec, and Selenium
• Familiar with using git for working with repositories, including branching and merging
• Familiar with load and performance testing and/or testing for and at scale using tools such as JMeter/Blaze Meter, Mailinator, and Mailhog
• Familiar with using issue tracking tools, especially JIRA, to manage work and report defects
• Familiar with test case repository and test execution tools such as Test Rail
• Familiar with working on products through their release in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Familiar with using system and/or interface design documentation
• Able to deal with features with…