Evergreen Posting: Automated Test Engineer (SDET)

Coforma • North Bethesda, MD

7d • Remote

About The Position

This is an evergreen posting for an Automated Test Engineer (SDET) position. The company is building a pipeline of talent for future project needs, recognizing that an immediate vacancy may not exist. The role involves working collaboratively with multiple engineering teams to improve automated testing processes, review code, write tests, and mentor teams on best practices. The company focuses on human-centered technology to improve lives and emphasizes collaboration with researchers and designers. The position requires working within the contiguous United States, with remote roles open to applicants in specific states.

Requirements

• Software testing best practices, including risk-based approaches, user-data driven testing, and the software testing pyramid
• The building blocks of the web, including how to write accessible semantic HTML and how to write clean CSS that conforms to design systems
• Open-source programming languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.
• Frameworks, libraries, or runtimes like React, Rails, Node, Next, Angular, Spring, etc.
• Testing frameworks like Jest, Testing Library, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress, etc.
• How to leverage the command line via shell scripting
• APIs and databases of various types like SQL, Dynamo, Mongo, Postgres, etc.
• Infrastructure tools like Terraform, Serverless, Amazon CDK, etc.
• CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Circle, etc.
• How to deliver polished, scalable, maintainable, performant code
• How to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Agile and Scrum development methodologies

Nice To Haves

• 3 or more years of experience writing automated tests for software and designing and building test cases in remote environments
• Knowledge of and experience with both structural and specification-based automated testing
• Prior experience in digital services, government, or federal consulting
• 3 or more years of experience building applications with open-source programming languages
• 3 or more years of experience working with modern testing frameworks, libraries, and testing services via APIs of various types
• 3 or more years of experience working with infrastructure tools and IAC
• 3 or more years of experience integrating CI/CD and pipeline tools with automated testing

Responsibilities

• Write automated tests and review code, ensuring high standards of quality, maintainability, and test coverage
• Solve problems across the tech stack alongside other engineers on the team, building new systems and improving existing ones
• Consistently apply best practices, including a focus on accessibility
• Collaborate with team members and government/client stakeholders to craft creative solutions and build technology products that improve the lives of those in the communities they serve
• Participate in quality improvement activities, including mapping contractual requirements to test cases to ensure coverage of necessary functionality
• Engage with coworkers across disciplines according to agile and Scrum methodologies, including participating in planning, breaking down requirements into tasks, refinement, and estimation, etc.

Benefits

• Will prioritize and maintain access to strong, reliable internet for the remote nature of our work, except when on vacation or holiday.
• Will keep the highest security practices to ensure privacy and security of Coforma and client information, given the nature of our work, even when on vacation.
• On request and with advanced notice, will attend in-person events such as meetings, workshops, and trainings as assigned for projects that require it.
• Will represent Coforma professionally and sincerely, modeling our Company Values in all interactions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed