Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test

Fiserv•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

Fiserv is a global leader in Fintech and payments, connecting financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers. The Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Clover, a Fiserv company, is a quality-focused professional who leverages technical skills to automate and scale testing efforts. SDETs are expected to devise engineering solutions for tasks, possess a deep understanding of quality, and ensure comprehensive test coverage. They are held to the engineering standards of developers and the quality standards of dedicated QA staff. This role involves increasing automation coverage, improving existing automation frameworks, identifying gaps, designing solutions, and executing them. The ideal candidate should be familiar with testing concepts and automation tools on Android. This position supports engineers by designing and maintaining cutting-edge automation systems to facilitate high-quality and rapid code deployment.

Requirements

A minimum of 4+ years of experience in writing reliable and maintainable automated tests
An eagle-eye for test coverage gaps, false positives or negatives and proficiency in black box, functional, and user flow testing techniques
Experience working on the Android platform and a very good understanding of the mobile test automation ecosystem
Professional-level programming skills (regex processing, class design, Map data structure, etc.), particularly in Java or JavaScript
Solid foundation in General QA methodologies, including a deep understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and modern testing practices
Proven ability to author comprehensive, clear, and actionable bug reports that facilitate rapid resolution by the engineering team
Technical proficiency with Android diagnostic tools (ADB, DDMS, Monkey, Memory Analyzer, etc.) and the ability to perform deep log file analysis for root cause identification
Experience with software development tools (IDE, debugger, git, JIRA, etc)
The passion to build tools that will enable the engineering team to write tests more easily
The trait of constantly looking for better solutions to bring down automation flakiness and increase automation reliability, thinking ahead and building for future changes in an ever-changing mobile ecosystem
Desire to automate everything and reduce the time required to manually test our products
The willingness to work with other teams such as engineering, manual QA, product and release teams
A forward-thinking interest in AI/ML technologies, specifically in using AI tools to enhance test coverage, predict flakiness, or increase overall engineering productivity
Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or other engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Novice-level Unix shell scripting skills (commands like grep, cut, sed, sort, wget, etc.)
Familiarity with JSON objects, SQL queries, data structures

Responsibilities

Develop test automation plans by collaborating with the manual testing team using Zephyr (jira)
Work on other non-functional quality attributes, like performance, reliability, and security
Develop automated tests with the appropriate technologies. Currently, we are using “UI Automator”(Java) for Android apps
SDET’s will spend most of the time automating test scenarios for android apps
Provide the Squad and all stakeholders with clear and real-time updates regarding test status, bug status, and overall quality about the product by monitoring failures, reporting bugs, analyzing & triaging automated tests running in the continuous Integration system
Work side-by-side with the development team on testing in parallel and automating tests in our sprints
Design and implement tools that improve efficiency in manual testing
Research new or better alternate automated testing tools
Help maintain systems to monitor test stability and report stability issues back to engineers
Keep a learning mindset - look for opportunities to continuously improve yourself, our products, and the practices that we use to build our products