Sr Staff SDET

• Guide the work of a group of SDETs in one or more functional areas with responsibility for all aspects of test automation, including framework enhancements and being an evangelist of quality.
• Review source code for potential problems, help debug and triage issues, and isolate fixes.
• Guide tool analysis, create proof-of-concept models, and make recommendations to support the tools selection process.
• Analyze, recommend, and implement industry best practices for coding guidelines, peer reviews, Git workflow, process workflow, quality gates, CI/CD processes, etc.
• Actively participate in reviews (walkthroughs) of technical specifications and program code with architects and developers. Communicate design, requirements, feature sets, functionality, and limitations of systems/applications to the team.
• Promote quality engineering processes, practices, and standards both within and across teams.
• Enable CI/CD integration for various automated test suites. Ensure proper test reporting, alerting, and enforcement of quality gates. Continuously evaluate opportunities for improvement.
• Invest in building robust data seeding and test execution techniques to ensure reliable test results.
• Collaborate with other teams including Release Management, SRE, Performance Engineering, Project Management, and Application Support to ensure successful delivery of new system features.
• Proactively engage with Product Owners from feature inception through functional validation to launch, always seeking to identify potential quality issues.
• Design and document comprehensive test strategies, testing guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), utilities, and tools to improve test automation efficiency.
• Triage customer issues, analyze production metrics, provide root cause analysis, and recommend system hardening measures. Maintain awareness of customers receiving new code/updates per the Release Schedule.
• Provide guidance to SDETs, Associates, and Seniors.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for multiple application areas and monitor the success of mentees.
• Provide oversight of a small group of SDETs. Ensure adherence to SOPs and design/coding guidelines.
• Proactively provide updates and reports to senior leadership.
• Lead the maintenance of test environments and test data creation, ensuring consistency with staging/production configurations.
• Work closely with SRE and Technical Implementation teams to develop tooling that improves environment stability, accuracy, and maintenance.

• Typically requires a minimum of 1417 years of related experience.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficient in coding with deep knowledge of the full technology stack and extensive experience in object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, and system architecture.
• Skilled in one or more languages: C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, etc. Familiar with Terraform, Shell scripting, and PowerShell.
• Expert in open-source or commercial test tools:
• Web testing: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright
• Mobile testing: Appium, Espresso
• API testing: Rest Assured, HttpClient
• Proven track record in evaluating tools/frameworks, setting best practices, and defining coding guidelines and review processes.
• Experience building, maintaining, and enhancing test automation frameworks using: Page Object Model, Data-Driven Testing, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
• Frameworks such as JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, PyTest, or Cucumber
• Experience with: Git workflows (Bitbucket, GitLab), Build tools (Gradle, Maven, NuGet), Artifact management (JFrog, ProGet), Cloud device testing (Sauce Labs, BrowserStack), CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, CircleCI)
• Expert in building test strategies, test plans, and automation strategies for Smoke, Functional, and Regression testing.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/DevOps methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Skilled in relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, Postgres) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Ability to write complex SQL queries (joins, aggregates) and identify data architecture challenges using monitors/profilers.
• Experience with White Box Testing techniques (Unit & Integration tests), using tools such as SonarQube and JaCoCO.
• Exposure to performance testing tools: JMeter, Gatling.
• Familiar with multiple API architectures: REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, WCF, gRPC.
• Understanding of UI and system architectures: Micro-Frontends, SPAs, etc.
• Skilled in reviewing and testing all layers in: Microservice architecture, Event-driven/messaging architecture (Kafka, SQS), Kubernetes platform, Service virtualization
• Experience designing and improving test workflows and processes.
• Skilled in creating and analyzing quality metrics to identify trends and risks.
• Effective at cross-functional collaboration, bringing together Product, Design, and Engineering teams. Strong in decision-making and project management.
• Ability to pull logs from Production, Staging, and Integrated environments and resolve complex scenarios.
• Comfortable with PagerDuty and actively supporting SRE efforts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Accomplished technologist with a passion for System Design and Architecture, with both breadth across technologies and depth in automation and test strategies.
• Extensive experience as a team coach, with a strong background in evaluating SDET candidates and building high-performing teams.

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