Senior Software Developer In Test

Summary

Join Instacart's dynamic team as a QA Automation Engineer and play a pivotal role in building and maintaining automation frameworks for cutting-edge smart shopping cart technology. You will spearhead the development of automated tests, identify and evaluate automation tools, establish best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment. This role requires extensive experience in automation testing, programming, and database management. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including equity grants, and operates in a flexible hybrid work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of working as a SDET/SDE, with 3+ years in a leading role and/or independent contributor
• Minimum 3-year experience with automation tools such as Appium, Expresso Selenium, Selendroid (or similar for Android app test automation)
• Minimum 3-year experience with IntelliJ, TestNG, and Jenkins
• Must have built an automation framework from scratch
• Experience programming with Java, Python, shell and/or C++
• Experience interacting with RESTful API and skilled in Rest Assured, Postman (or similar)
• Experience with System Design
• Experience working with MongoDB and MySQL
• Solid understanding of GIT
• Strong analytical skills, self-motivation, attention to detail and leadership ability
• Must be able to work within our NYC office in a hybrid environment

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the development of automated functional integration tests and E2E tests across all our products utilizing open-source test frameworks
• Be a Hands-on self-motivated engineer capable of working collaboratively in building a continuous integration environment
• Perform complex database queries and manipulations for test, staging, etc
• Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, E2E, load and performance testing
• Assist with manual testing as needed
• Develop trained data, test data, and model validations for machine learning tests
• Work closely with engineering, product management, cross-department partner teams within an Agile environment using JIRA as our backbone for collaboration
• Be a strong voice of reason exercising clear judgment making data-informed decisions in order to improve and maintain the utmost quality within our products
• Daily “bug hunting” – always on the lookout for defects, usability improvements, cosmetic “eye sores”, etc. and properly track them for resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience automating tests for android applications, Web Applications & Services
• Experience in establishing and maintaining full CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Gitlab
• Knowledge of basic software engineering practices surrounding coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, and test
• Experience with AI and ML test principles and strategies
• Exposure to GCP and microservices
• Familiar with JIRA and TestRail
• Highly effective communication, both oral and written

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants