Senior Associate, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET)

The OCC•Chicago, IL

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

What You’ll Do Responsible for gaining a thorough understanding of the new system or application to be tested. This individual must learn both the technical side of the system as well as understand what the business user expects. The SDET is responsible to design, develop and maintain new and existing automation frameworks, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in test regression, tests coverage and automation of newly implemented functionality, and development of tools to enable acceptance test efficiencies. The SDET will also work closely with Software Developers, Project Management and Customer Support to form and follow quality procedures, standards and specifications ensuring they are met and deliver the highest quality projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Requirements

Ability to apply test design techniques including Boundary value analysis, state transition testing, and data-driven testing in combination with combinatorial/pairwise methods
Basic knowledge of a development lifecycle under Waterfall and/or Agile methodologies
Ability to manage small scale projects and ensuring team efficiency
Broad based knowledge of the Lifecyle development, change control management, test planning management
Strong analytical skills with potential to display methods of testing highly sophisticated systems, progressively diagnose system defects, and clearly communicate project constituents, key findings and learnings
Strong communication skills, written and oral, sound judgement and time management skills, ability to work effectively with clients (users), management and staff
Highly motivated self-starter with creative problem-solving skills
Ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced Agile environment
Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
Experience working with two or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software systems development, security software development, public-cloud platforms
Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automation of test cases, and working with test frameworks.
Automated Testing framework experience (Cucumber, Selenium, Mocha/Chai, TestNG)
Relational databases and query tools. (SQL Server, Oracle and DB2)
Hands-on experience with writing automation test code and utilizing leading industry standards tools and frameworks that can simulate complex multi-system scenarios
Proficiency with automated testing types (Unit, Functional, Load, Security, Behavioral, Integration, Component, Contract and End to End)
Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite
Programming/Scripting Experience/knowledge in any one language (Java, VB script, Python)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
3+ years of experience in system analysis and/or application testing role

Nice To Haves

Experience with working on cloud native applications as well as CI/CD tools (AWS, Jenkins, Rancher)
Test management experience leading small to large projects and development of test plans
Prior work experience in the capital markets, derivatives, financial services industry

Responsibilities

Implementation of test automation, responsibilities to automating manual test cases and designing automated test cases
Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems
Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you
Contribute to our long-term vision and strategy for improved quality via automation first approach
Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks and test automation coverage
Identify quality tasks during team sprint cycle and implement automation for new features
Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking
Assist in the planning, creation and control of the test environments and test data
Conduct requirements analysis for testability, identify scope, conduct risk and mitigation planning, configuration management planning, write master and detailed test plans for test planning and design.
Participate in the review of test procedures and processes and provide recommendations for improvements to eliminate redundancies in testing and improve efficiency.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
Generous PTO and Parental leave
401k Employer Match
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

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