Software Development Engineer - SDET

Your opportunity

Stock Plan Services focuses on supporting equity compensation for our B2B clients. We have multiple applications that support this effort, and our mission is to launch a consolidated platform of microsites to combine these segregated applications into a holistic user experience. While executing this goal we strive to maintain excellent customer support and deliver on sustaining engineering objectives. We are diverse team of talented team-members who continuously raise the bar on delivering best-in-class products and services to people all over the world.

The successful candidate will be an expert in designing scalable and maintainable test automation.  This individual will collaborate closely with the developers to understand architecture of the application to best devise how to build reliable, maintainable automated tests. 

The candidate must be enthusiastic about quality and assist in creating a high-quality culture across the scrum team(s). 

Essential Functions

• Be a direct Test Automation engineer with a DevOps philosophy in Agile environment.

• Understand and implement automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, UI.

• Keep automation current, flexible, and designed to work within a continuous integration / deployment framework.

• Develop methods and procedures to create automation test data and data refresh capabilities.

• Function as SDET for one or more scrum teams. Coordinate with scrum expert, product owner and developers to implement test automation and CI/CD practices.

• Maintain automation code using source control (Bitbucket/GitHub), test management and release systems.

• Maintain test case repositories and results at sprint and release level using JIRA.

• Design and implement continuous testing pipeline using Bamboo for Regression and Smoke testing.

• Firsthand experience working with databases Oracle, MongoDB

• Enable scrum team to use BDD methodology using Gherkin.

• Work in Agile and DevOps environment to deliver robust quality sprint over sprint, release over release.

What you have

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of experience in Test Automation in Agile environment.

• 1-2 years of Schwab technology domain experience gained as a current or recent contractor or employee

• Experience in assisting in the designing / implementing of a scalable and maintainable automation for UI and API/Service level testing.

• Strong programming knowledge and experience in Object Oriented languages (Java or C#)

• Good to have - Experience and knowledge with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, PCF etc.)

• Experience with Atlassian Tools (Bitbucket, Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, Bamboo)

• Experience in an Agile work environment.

• Experience with Selenium, RestAssured and SOATest.

• Collaborator with excellent communication skills (oral and written) to technically communicate with Application Architects, Development, QA peers and Business partners.

• Exposure to different test data management techniques and tools

• Exposure to Performance Testing and understanding of pre-requisites like nonfunctional requirements, setup of performance test environments, defining performance test strategy and provisioning right test data.

• Experience with cloud-based testing infrastructure tools such as Saucelabs.

• Good to have – Understanding of IAS (infrastructure as service) in context of application testing.