Software Development Engineer in Test I

The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) will work collaboratively as part of a project team, pairing with developers to develop and maintain automated tests to run within the defined automation framework. This individual must be innovative, self-motivated, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving existing abilities and needs to be interested in problem solving, developing tools, and hardware and software interoperability. This resource is a team player, willing to learn from the talented engineering colleagues on software best practices while educating them on the latest technology and software infrastructure. Also, the SDET resource integrates the latest technology into the test infrastructure for our automatic tank gauges and cloud-based applications.

Major Responsibilities Include:

•    Develop test plans to verify and validate automated tank gauge features

•    Design, develop, and execute software solutions based on test requirements and technical specification to ensure quality on our automated tank gauge and related platforms

•    Continuously improve the test automation framework

•    Develop automation execution reports that communicate failed tests and failure points to stakeholders

•    Integrate automated tests into the make/build process for continuous integration using frameworks such as Jenkins or Bamboo (either directly or helping DevOps to do it)

•    Monitor automation processes and communicate failures

•    Support non-functional testing (stress, performance/load, and security testing) with automation and test data as needed

•    Review and refactor existing automated tests as well as enhance our automation regression technology to ensure the software quality improvement and efficiency of the test

•    Communicate test results and highlight potential quality risks

•    Ensure test automation design is traceable to requirements or user stories and achieves a high level of requirement/test coverage

•    Interact with product manager, development teams and QA colleagues to develop a strong understanding of the project and product testing objectives

•    Function as an integral part of the project team

•    Collect, analyze and interpret test metrics.

• Summarize test data and report findings.