Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Summary

Join Encora as a Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) and become a mentor for quality and automation across Agile teams. You will ensure high-quality standards for web, mobile, and service-based applications by using automated test tools and techniques. Collaborate closely with developers and product managers, actively participate in Agile ceremonies, and identify/mitigate risks to product quality. Increase API and UI test coverage, contribute to automation frameworks, and design/maintain test tools and services. Execute various tests and evangelize best practices, addressing product testability concerns. This remote position is based in Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia, or Argentina.

Requirements

• At least 6+ YOE in QA related positions
• 4+ years of hands-on coding experience with test automation
• Great hands-on coding experience with Javascript/Typescript and/or Java/Groovy and/or Python languages
• Ability to be a strong proponent of automated testing, and to identify what tests should be automated, and at what level
• Capability to train your colleagues on technical aspects
• Ability to create well-structured and efficient test plans
• Ability to gain others' support for ideas, proposals and solutions in order to advance work objectives
• A hands-on approach and ability to deliver on commitments
• Confidence working in a high-paced and technical-driven environment
• Experience working as part of Agile teams
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, or equivalent training or work experience

Responsibilities

• Act as an integrated member of Agile teams
• Work in close collaboration with developers and product managers to ensure common understanding of functionalities under development and how to test them
• Be an active stakeholder extremely early in all project planning activities and Agile ceremonies (scoping, technical design review, high-level estimations, sequencing, grooming, sprint planning, demos, …)
• Identify, escalate and mitigate any risk to product quality
• Increase API and UI test coverage based on product requirements of existing and new features
• Be a principal contributor to the development and evolution of automation frameworks
• Design, build and maintain test tools and test services
• Help with the analysis, debugging and stabilization of daily automated test suites results
• Execute automated, manual and exploratory regression tests for the periodical release of our applications
• Evangelize best practices and processes related to quality
• Raise and address any product testability concern

Preferred Qualifications

• You have played a major role in building an automated test framework
• You have developed service-level automation, like API, system, and integration tests
• You have used the Playwright library for UI tests
• You are proficient with TypeScript and/or Scala
• You are familiar with the Gatling load test tool
• You have experience in the airline industry and familiarity with travel technology