Software Test Engineer (QA) - First Mile - INF0021739 at General Motors (Austin, TX)

Location:
Austin, TX
About The First Mile Team At General Motors
Our First Mile team is responsible for incubating and delivering on the next generation of ideas. The new organization will work with GM business partners to explore growth opportunities outside of the companys core, existing businesses. Members of our teams include industry-leading engineers, architects, and designers who use a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, and delight customers
About The Software Engineer In Test
The First Mile Software Engineer in Test will be responsible for working closely with the development team to ensure overall quality by building the right test infrastructure, tools, and lead best practices that enable the absolute best quality product. This team member will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional, and agile environment. This team member will

• Develop and drive test automation planning, development, and strategy to ensure product quality and to contribute to Continuous Integration, Build, and Deployment
• Build and maintain an automated test infrastructure and automation test harnesses for a multi-platform product that will be used to ensure quality in all aspects of the product
• Perform root cause analysis, technology evaluations, and develop quick prototypes
• Commit to completing well-defined, secure, and elegant work and deliver on their commitments
• Consistently follow the specified software development methodology
• Establish processes and tool sets to maintain automation scripts and generate regular test reports, contributing ongoing streamlined data to development, design, and planning teams
  

Prospective team members possess a high degree of business insight, creativity, decision making skills, a drive for results, the ability to negotiate, the ability to develop strong peer relationships, and a strong technical learning capability and focus.
Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with Agile teams that have regularly delivered software while practicing code review
• Over 3 years of software development experience in a modern programming or scripting language such as (C++, Python, Java)
• Over 5 years of software development experience designing, building, and maintain automation frameworks
• Experience in SQL (relational databases), key-value datastores, and document stores
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules that stand the test of time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
• Creative problem-solving skills that deliver elegant solutions to complex issues
• Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field, or, equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience diagnosing issues from browser to infrastructure to network and database
• Experience with microservices and implementing Continuous Integration, Build, and Delivery
• Experience in Web application automation test development using selenium, TestNG
• Extensive hands on experience using scripting language (Java script)
• Some knowledge of Web Services (SOAP and REST)
• Hands on experience using API automation tools such as POSTMAN and JMeter
• API Contract verification using tools such as Swagger
• Experience in mobile application automation test development (Native iOS and/or Android)
• Experience using Git version control doing rebases, merges, and handling merge conflicts and knowledge of Test Manager and TFS
• Work closely with Developers, QA and other project team members to analyze test results, locate problems, identify root causes and develop solutions

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