Software Developer in Testing (SDET)

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Software Developer in Test for a contract assignment with a financial services firm located in Boston, MA. Responsibilities:

• Research, design and build efficient automation/performance/security frameworks, including test tools and automated test suits that govern whole development cycle
• Design and develop testing strategy based upon project requirements, automation/performance scripts with quality code to simplify test scenarios.
• Create, execute, analyze, and report test results to agile delivery team.
• Work in partnership with development teams, participate in architecture and design reviews, identify issues and suggest improvements to deliver business functionality on time with required quality
• Collaborate with developers in reviewing unit test and integration results for coverage analysis
• Create branching strategy and policies for high-quality automation deliverables
• Design & develop pipeline as a code for Continuous testing pipeline to integrate automation scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
• Drive automation efficiencies and coverage effectiveness using different tools and techniques
• Review the development code to build effective automation suite to cover technical and business integration automation coverage
• Design real-time automation dashboard to measure build quality and provide feedback to the agile delivery team
• Mentor quality engineers on automation best practices and support automation backlog efforts
• Perform manual, exploratory and automation scripts development efforts

• 8+ years of experience in software testing or development with strong experience in testing methodologies, agile practices, coding and debugging procedures
• Experience in programming using Python or Java or other languages
• Experience in design and development of automated frameworks, automated tests using automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Appium) with exposure in testing across the application layers (UI/Service/Data layers)
• Experience in advising team to identify automatable test scenarios at different layers.
• Experience with API development, service virtualization, and mock testing
• Experience with Kafka, MQ message queues based automation, and cloud testing skills.
• Collaborate with engineering team in building automation feasible applications/platforms.
• Experience of BDD implementation, tagging strategy, and pipeline integration
• Experience in performance testing tools like performance center & JMeter
• Strong knowledge of RDS and NoSQL databases, writing queries, stored procedures, and scripts
• Experience working in DevOps culture and practice.
• Proficiency in building pipeline code.
• Experience working with AWS cloud, infra as a code, and automation dashboards
• Proven data analysis, data verification, and problem-solving abilities to provide insights and conclusions
• Excellent communication, organizational, presentation, and negotiation skills with the ability to cultivate effective working relationships with business and technical staff at all levels
• Highly developed critical thinking, including strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• Ability to set priorities and readily adapt to changing priorities; commitment and flexibility to ensure critical deadlines are met
• Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.
• Strong communication skills and ability to produce clear, concise and detailed documentation
• Capture quality data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions
• Bachelors or higher qualification in Computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent is preferred.
• SAFE or Agile certification, Cloud or DevOps certification is a plus Other Considerations