SDET / Automation Engineer at Modis (Austin, TX)

We are moving towards a Test Driven development and Continuous Integration environment using Bamboo and Bitbucket. The Software Developer in Test must be able to perform in a dynamic, fast-moving, and agile environment and is passionate about developing high quality, high performance, and scalable software. The candidate will work aside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the overall software development lifecycle and ensure the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases.

The model is insights-driven and focuses on rapid iterations to drive innovation and transformation. Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more integrated client-centric experiences, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.

Locals to Austin, TX will take priority consideration over those needing to relocate.

This position is a W2 contract that based on performance and budget could lead to full-time employment conversion.

Responsibilities: 

• Provide accountability on the technical strategy for testing and quality assurance on mission critical enterprise applications
• Develop and maintain enterprise scalable test automation frameworks
• Evaluate new technology or processes to support sustainable, continuous test automation
• Drive a continuous improvement mentality to deliver robust performance testing strategies and methods
• Promote excellent development practices for coded test frameworks, to include participating in code reviews and source control management
• Design test automation for web services, APIs, and web-based platforms
• Maintain tools used in during test development including source control, test management and release systems
• Mentor peers and staff on quality engineering, network with other automation teams within the company and derive automation best practices for continuous improvement.

What You Have:

Required:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field
• 2-5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering
• 2+ years of hands on experience automating build and release certification tasks as part of DevOps practices and behaviors
• 2+ years of hands on testing experience in Business Process Management workflows
• Understanding of QA practices (black box testing, risk based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing practices)
• Strong technical competency in an OOP language such as C#.NET/Java or an expert in test automation tools preferably in a Java/Maven environment and the Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Zephyr, Confluence), Selenium or other industry leading tool sets
• Team player with excellent communication skills (oral and written) to partner technically with Application Architects, Development, QA/Testing organizations and Business teams
• Working knowledge of Agile, Iterative development process and methodologies is essential
• Passion for building solutions through automation, driven by innovation and commitment to lifelong learning
• Strong problem-solving skills including ability to disseminate complex ideas in a simplified fashion
• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment

Preferred:

• Hands on experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration tools (Bamboo/GIT etc)
• Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin languages like Cucumber or SpecFlow is a plus
• 1+ years of experience with Service Oriented Architecture Quality Assurance, and thorough knowledge of testing API orchestration layers and Real-Time Messaging interfaces such as RabbitMQ
• 1+ years of experience developing or testing applications on the PEGA platform
• Exposure to a regulatory environment (like Banking & Finance or Health care etc.)
• Experience in developing or influencing the development of scalable automated framework(s) that orchestrate enterprise level functional and regression testing is preferable

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