SR Software Development Test Engineer, Level 3 (Remote US)

Reporting to the Director of Quality Engineering, the senior-level Software Development Test Engineer will be responsible for leading the testing efforts for one or more product applications and ensuring high quality releases for our customers.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Support multiple Agile teams as an advocate for quality and the customer experience
• Own automated test coverage for one or more product(s) your product team is responsible for
• Provide status updates and feedback to your team and manager
• Learn, understand, and maintain manual and automated testing policies and other QA documentation
• Assist QA leadership with establishing and enforcing department policies and procedures
• Assist less senior team members with learning/complying with policies
• Create and maintain automated test cases and suites against web applications and services, using ruby and possibly Java and/or .NET, delegating to less senior SDETs as needed
• Implement test case automation for test cases as identified by manual and automated test engineers, maintaining test automation to a standard of coverage
• Spend some of your time assisting with manual testing activities as needed
• Perform very complex quality assurance/automated testing activities as needed
• Work with manual test engineers to identify test cases to automate and prioritize the automation work backlog
• Provision and maintain virtual machines for testing and perform other QA DevOps tasks as needed
• Lead efforts to build and improve QA tools and infrastructure
• Contribute to and validate acceptance criteria
• Contribute to story work estimates and sprint commitments
• Represent your product’s QA team(s) with the larger product team
• Mentor and review the work of less senior SDETs
• As needed, assist with reviewing merge requests and other development work performed by development engineers
• Act as a subject matter expert for test automation and possibly some development tools/principles
• Communicate and demonstrate Cofense’s values and principles

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Willing to learn new development languages, tools, and techniques
• Self-motivated
• Proficient at written and verbal communication, with English fluency in both
• Able to prepare test plans and estimates and track progress on quality efforts
• Proficient with multiple automated and manual testing tools and techniques
• Proficient with CI/CD methodology and tools: Jenkins, Docker, GitLabs CI
• Proficient with Cloud Native development and interacting with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc)
• Proficient with Microsoft O365 tenants and Graph API
• Able, as needed, to execute, report on, create, and maintain manual test cases
• Familiar with testing using recent Windows and Apple operating systems
• Familiar with testing web applications with popular web browsers (in particular, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox)
• Familiar with using and maintaining local and remote virtual machines for testing (VMWare ESXi)
• Familiar with both behavioral and clear box testing (a.k.a. black box and white box testing)
• Familiar with browser and platform compatibility testing
• Familiar using SQL with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Familiar with testing microservice architectures
• Familiar with command-line tools under Linux, OS X, and/or Windows
• Familiar with (when relevant):
  • Ruby: rvm, bundler, cucumber, rspec, FactoryBot, and Selenium
  • Java: maven, cucumber, mockito/spock, and Selenium
  • .NET: specflow, nspec, and Selenium
• Familiar with using git for working with repositories, including branching and merging
• Familiar with load and performance testing and/or testing for and at scale using tools such as JMeter/BlazeMeter, Mailinator, and Mailhog
• Familiar with using issue tracking tools, especially JIRA, to manage work and report defects
• Familiar with test case repository and test execution tools such as TestRail
• Familiar with working on products through their release in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Familiar with using system and/or interface design documentation
• Able to deal with features with poor, outdated, or no design documentation
• Able to work, with minimal supervision, on a distributed team, escalating issues as necessary
• Willing to mentor other SDETs and QA engineers on development and test automation
• Willing (if not happy!) to travel occasionally for team meetings and events (especially if you're remote)

 

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (o