Lead SDET Engineer

Manages and supervises other SDET QA to ensure application code the team tests performs as expected in terms of function, compatibility, design, and performance chiefly by developing testing programs to identify possible defects in pre-deployment software. Operates at all levels of the testing pyramid, employing knowledge of the end user business domain to mentor the team to validate suitability for purpose.

Collaborates with team, engineering and product colleagues to ensure consistently high quality software. Oversee and help implement full automation test coverage at a squad level for a release and coordinate the work within the squad/team to completion. Participates in automation code reviews, pair-programming, makes automation framework updates to support new/enhanced functionality, Able to understand automation coding and best practices and mentor other SDET QA to get the team to develop test automation to the same standards that the development team follows.

Keep up with innovations in the industry and be a driver of continuous improvement.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Quality and Best Practices Champion

• Promotes automation first approach to test plans that incorporate both positive and negative scenarios
• Identifies functional interdependencies between squads that optimizes testing of related/dependent features that are cross-squad and cross-team
• Participates and leads in postmortem activities to better understand and automate escapes and implement process improvements
• Understands each tier of the testing pyramid and the how to use the different automation solutions for them
• Helps ensure both stories and epics meet both Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)
• Applies test-first BDD and TDD best practices
• Experience with integrating AI into test automation solution
• A vision for how Generative AI can transform QA
• Ideas for client-centric testing that includes persona and workflow based test strategy

Automated Test Developer

• Has a vision for how to make Leverages AI to enhance automation and productivity while ensuring high quality coding standards
• Designs efactors automation to validate the intended functionality using common classes and shared configs that keeps the framework lean and fast
• Able to automate and do code reviews at all levels of the test pyramid
• Ensures automated tests are incorporated into CI/CD pipeline and ensure test results are monitored
• Be a hands on lead and automate and validate end to end system/functional workflows within multiple components
• Demonstrates understanding of Agile principles and supports the overall delivery for product releases
• Able to accurately estimate stories and one’s own capacity
• Processes retrospectives and applies Kaizen principles to daily work

Business Domain Expert

• Has business domain experience and extends business domain through purposeful study
• Has client centered approach and promotes customer personas and application workflows as a testing practice
• Able to identify domain knowledge gaps within the team and recommend individualized training options
• Demonstrates analytical, systems and innovative thinking
• Acquires subject matter expertise in application under test to a level of demoing and training others

Test Framework Developer

• Learns the appropriate uses of, architecture for, and construction of test frameworks and tooling
• Suggests and implements improvements to the test framework
• Work with multiple frameworks; REST/API, GUI, performance, ETL/big data as well as custom test solutions
• Incorporates AI and new technologies into our framework that boost both productivity and product quality
• Understands the production support model
• Understands how production environments are deployed and configured
• Prioritizes production issue troubleshooting and delegates to the team.

EXPERIENCE/

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in the Hard Sciences (Computer Science, Math, Engineering preferred)
• 10+ years of software development or automation development or technical team leadership experience
• Experience with performance tools like Neoload/JMeter/Etc
• Familiarity with Playwright
• Experience managing technical automation QA teams in an agile and CI/CD…