Sr Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

 

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)- Remote or Hybrid

 

Nice to meet you!

 

We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

 

About the job

SAS Risk, Fraud & Compliance R&D division produces leading-edge solutions used to detect and prevent financial crime, implement sanctions screening, aide criminal investigations, etc.  we are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and support scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and test suites to ensure quality within expected timelines during the development cycle.

 

As a Senior Software Developer in Test, you will:

• Create and maintain high quality of test automation using modern development techniques, both inside and outside of the CDP and provide key data points to support metrics-based decision making.
• Produce and analyze metrics that illustrate the quality of applications and develop insight that drives the direction of quality engineering.
• Work collaboratively with development, product and devops teams to promptly triage test failures with precision and accuracy, maintaining the health of the build pipeline.
• Engages in code reviews for product, test, and infrastructure code.
• Understands the role of deployment, migration, security, and performance in the continuous delivery lifecycle.
• Improve mean time to resolution by leading triage with precision and accuracy, maintaining the health of the build pipeline
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing automated tests
• 8+ years of experience using Python or Java
• Bachelors degree in computer science or related quantitative field
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment, including sprint planning and delivery of sprint commitments, Jira
• Test design and implementation experience with web-based microservices, REST interfaces, and the OpenAPI specification
• Has developed innovative best practice solutions that improve quality engineering across team or divisional boundaries
• Demonstrated ability to distinguish between testing layers, match the correct approach to each situation, and design effective quality gates based on these layers.
• Experience working with container platforms and technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes and cloud deployments
• Proficient with source control management techniques (including branching, code review, and merging).
• Customizing deployment, migration, security, and performance in the continuous delivery lifecycle
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with test frameworks used for testing software in a CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with Kubernetes and service-oriented architecture
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with Ubuntu
• Experience with VSCode or IntelliJ
• Experience with cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, GCP

 

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

 

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