Senior SDET Consul
Posted 3 days ago by 1764996875
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Senior SDET Consultant role requires a highly experienced individual with over 10 years in testing and automation, particularly with tools like Selenium WebDriver and Playwright. The position emphasizes collaboration within an agile team, critical thinking, and the ability to work independently while contributing to the development of complex systems. The consultant will lead automation strategies and testing procedures, ensuring high-quality deliverables in a fast-paced environment. Strong communication skills and a proactive approach are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands-on testing and automation experience with Selenium WebDriver or similar tools.
- SQL database experience for data setup and verification.
- Testing of REST APIs and automation using tools like POSTMAN.
- CI/CD pipeline experience with tools such as Github actions, Codefresh, and Jenkins.
- Experience with Playwright framework using TypeScript.
- Collaboration within an agile team, including participation in daily scrum calls and retrospectives.
- Guiding other SDETs in technology or process as needed.
- Developing testing strategies for large, complex systems.
- Owning the testing of user stories, including manual and automated testing.
- Contributing to the automation strategy and leading test scripting activities.
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of testing and automation experience.
- Proficiency in Selenium WebDriver, Robot Framework, and Playwright.
- Strong SQL database skills.
- Experience with REST APIs and automation tools like POSTMAN.
- CI/CD pipeline knowledge.
- Agile methodology experience.
- Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms is a plus.
- Familiarity with performance testing tools like JMeter is a plus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
SDET Contractor
Location: Remote
Exp: 10+yrs
Job Description:
Core Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
8+ years of hands-on testing and automation experience with Selenium WebDriver or similar (i.e. Robot Framework) and/or software development experience in any language (i.e. Python, Java,etc.,)
4+ years of hands-on SQL database experience (i.e. insert/update statements for data setup, delete/update statements for data teardown, select statements with simple joins for data verification)
2+ years of hands-on testing of REST APIs (i.e. verifying HTTP status code and JSON response body using POSTMAN); bonus if experience includes automation
2+ years of deep CI/CD pipeline experience (i.e. setting automation suite in deployment pipeline, constantly tweaking for optimal value and user-friendly test reports) with either Github actions, Codefresh and Jenkins
2+ years of Playwright framework using TypeScript
6+ years of experience working on an agile team
Ability to think critically, communicate with other team members and ask questions
Display initiative, be able to work independently as a strong individual contributor with minimal guidance, and be an integral part of an agile team via superior collaboration and team playing skills
Ability to figure out efficient ways of working to meet deadlines in a fast-paced start-up like environment
Assist other SDETs in guiding them with technology or process as needed
Actively contribute to, and follow the agile team norms set forth, including but not limited to attending daily scrum calls, backlog refinement, retrospective and other agile meetings
Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills are a must
Minimum Qualifications & Skills:
Be a Test Architect on an agile team with multiple developers, SDETs, an architect, a product owner and a scrum master
Contributes to Somos' automation strategy. Leads test scripting and security automation activities and testing procedures to automate processes.
Assesses areas of improvement and identifies best tools for scaling, self-service, virtualization, and integration.
Develops testing strategies for large, complex systems, applying knowledge of design concepts and procedures. Provides technical direction to formulate and develop effective test architectures.
Be part of a multi-year/multi-team project to build an AWS web application with a ReactJS frontend, Spring framework microservices (REST APIs) backend, and Aurora database
SDETs will be responsible for owning the testing of a user story (including manual & automated testing) and perform in-sprint automation using Robot Framework, as well as collaborating on Slack with the other SDETs to review overnight regression test failures (if any)
Standard 2-week sprints (daily standups, weekly refinements, bi-weekly sprint demos and retros)
Bachelor s degree in computer science, Computer engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications & Skills (if any):
AWS or similar Cloud experience is a plus
Experience in shift left testing is a plus
Experience with JMeter or any performance tool is a plus
Telecom industry experience is a plus
Comfortable working on a Mac or other Unix-based OS
Experience in testing AI/ML, big data and reporting is a plus