Principal SDET

Location: Westlake

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Principal SDET in Westlake, TX.

Duties:

* Principal SDET will focus on the deployment automation and orchestration

* Assist with code branches, merges, builds pipelines, manage versioning, etc.

* Use your knowledge of testing and testability to influence better software design, promote proper software engineering, and bug prevention strategies, testability, and security

* Actively participate in the development process through writing and maintain application features and automated tests including unit tests, component tests, integration tests, functional tests, performance tests, scenario tests and interoperability tests

* As a Principal SDET, you will collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity, and production health
* 10+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree or 6+ years of experience with a Master's degree in Computer Science (or closely related field)

* Minimum 6 years of experience with architecting automation test platforms

* Minimum 6 years of experience with architecting and implementing development pipelines (CI/CD)

* Experience in designing and implementing robust QA strategies and test frameworks for API, Web with deep expertise in end-to-end validation

* Experience in test automation (Playwright/Cypress, Selenium, Rest Assured, JUnit, Test NG, Maven, ETL Batch)

* Experience with Dev Ops/Pipelines (Jenkins Core, LWC, Monorepo, etc.)

* Experience with source control (Git Hub, Stash (Bitbucket), Source Tree)

* Top skills needed:
Front end, Playwright, Xray, chaos, Splunk, Datadog, node.js, Java, Java Script, Jenkins core

* Good understanding of accessibility features and building and testing accessible experiences on Web

* Good understanding of writing SQL queries and implementing the data seeding for automation

* Good to have AWS certification and experience

* Cloud experience preferred - Amazon Web Services (AWS)