Remote SDET

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at VGS, a payment tokenization company. The SDET will be responsible for test automation, collaborating with other teams, and ensuring high-quality products. The role requires 5+ years of experience in test automation practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on experience in test automation practices with various tools and frameworks for a Cloud SaaS environment
• Strong experience in backend functional testing using framework and tools such as RestAssured, JUnit, Pytest or equivalent
• Experience in backend performance testing of high volume applications that handles millions of requests using Jmeter, Locust, K6 or equivalent
• Strong OOP experience in languages like Java, Python, JavaScript and good understanding of design patterns
• Strong experience with databases and querying languages SQL, MySQL, or equivalent
• Prior Agile development experience, preferably in a CI/CD environment using CircleCI, Jenkins, Github, or Gitlab
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and explain complex technical issues to a non-technical audience
• Enthusiastic and energetic with an inherent curiosity to break code and stress test it!
• BS in Computer Science or Equivalent
• Experience in UI functional testing using Testcafe, Cypress, Selenium or equivalent
• Knowledge of white box testing tools such as SonarQube
• Knowledge of observability solutions using Grafana, Honeycomb and Open Telemetry

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a small group of SDETs and own all aspects of test automation for a team
• Create, maintain, and execute regression, functional, non-functional, and exploratory tests
• Participate in tool analysis and make recommendations to support the tools selection process
• Foster a culture of test automation and ensure test coverage for services owned by the team
• Drive shift-left in SDLC and actively work with development and devops teams for integrating test automation as an integral part of the CI/CD delivery pipeline
• Actively participate in functional requirement and code reviews with architects & developers, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality, and limitations of systems/applications to the team
• Collaborate with program, product, developers right from inception through functional validation to launch, while always looking for potential quality issues/bugs and offering triaging and root cause analysis capabilities
• Engage in all phases of the software lifecycle - design, implement, test, deploy, and support services in production
• Be proactive and innovative- we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
• Global parental leave program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Home Internet reimbursement
• New hire home office set up allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement