Lead SDET with AWS, Cypress experience

Lead SDET with AWS, Cypress experience

Posted 1 week ago by 1752660429

Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA

Summary: The Lead SDET role is a remote contract position focused on driving test automation within a specialized team. Candidates must possess strong experience with AWS and automation tools such as Cypress and Appium, with a significant emphasis on mobile and web testing. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator and proactive in engaging with the team to enhance testing practices. This position requires hands-on involvement while also being open to leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive test automation for the team using Cypress, Appium, and other tools.
  • Engage with team members to enhance testing practices and methodologies.
  • Design test scenarios and develop automated test strategies.
  • Conduct API testing and mobile testing as part of the automation process.
  • Provide mentorship and training to team members on test automation.
  • Review and provide feedback during code pull requests.
  • Track and report automated test coverage metrics.

Key Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 5+ years of software test automation experience.
  • Strong expertise in JavaScript, C#, Java, TypeScript, or similar languages.
  • Experience with automation testing methodologies and tools.
  • Advanced understanding of web application testing tools like Selenium and Cypress.
  • Knowledge of Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
  • Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
  • Solid understanding of object-oriented principles and Service Oriented Architecture.
  • Experience with test management tools like qTest or ALM.
  • Ability to mentor and train team members.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Hi,
Hope you are doing well
I have an urgent opening of Lead SDET at remote role

Position Type: Contract
Location: Remote, United States
Description:

Interview : Video


Description :
Must have strong experience with AWS
Cypress Automation tester, ones that have experience with Appium as this team does a lot of mobile testing but also web testing.
Notes from the hiring manager:

More like a Sr SDET- will not be a normal product team- will be a separate team. Will be cypress, appium for mobile, API testing, android testing, AWS, ec2, Selenium, best practices.

Very strong communicator and go- getter. Need very strong engagement- essentially drive test automation for the team.

Open to Lead type profile, usually those profiles as good as they're fearless to reach out and seek questions/ drive things forward, but this will still be hands on.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field or comparable industry experience.
  • 5+ years of software test automation experience with a focus on building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
  • Experience with software automation testing methodologies including regression, functional, unit, integration, coverage, performance and load preferred.
  • Experience testing applications that integrate with other systems through RESTful API's preferred.
  • Experience designing test scenarios, breaking down software features and developing automated test strategies required.
  • Strong understanding of continuous integration and deployment preferred.
  • Experience with test management tools such as qTest, ALM, TFS or similar tools preferred.
  • Experience in Agile software development methodology and using tools such as Rally, Jira, TFS, or ServiceNow required.
  • Strong expertise in JavaScript, C#, Java, TypeScript, or other applicable languages as needed required.
  • Advanced understanding of open source web frameworks such as Angular, Bootstrap, Node.js, and Express required.
  • Advanced understanding of web application testing tools such as Selenium, Jasmine, Protractor, Cucumber, Appium, or Cypress required.
  • Experience with API testing frameworks such as Karate, Gatling, JMeter, or Postman preferred.
  • Experience with load and performance testing preferred.
  • Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services such as Amazon AWS, Azure, Heroku, Perfecto Mobile, and SauceLabs preferred.
  • Experience in reviewing and providing feedback to team members during pull requests preferred.
  • Solid understanding of object-oriented principles and Service Oriented Architecture required.
  • Solid understanding of source control tools such as Git or Subversion required.
  • Experience with test-driven development and behavior-driven development preferred.
  • Advanced level experience with SQL preferred.
  • Ability to track and report automated test coverage metrics required.
  • Experience training and mentoring team members on test automation required.

Regards,

Nitin Gupta
Team Lead-Recruitment
ShiftCode Analytics Inc.,
5118 Sylvester loop Tampa,
Florida 33610
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