Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Summary

Join Tala, a company on a mission to empower the financially underserved, as a Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr. SDET). You will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of Tala’s backend services and mobile applications across multiple markets. This hands-on position requires developing and maintaining test automation suites, integrating them into the release process, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will contribute to improving existing frameworks and tools, and continuously learn new technologies to optimize the testing process. Tala offers a remote-first work environment and a diverse, global team.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in building test tools and frameworks using Groovy/Kotlin/ Java/ Scala, Jenkins or similar CI-CD tools, Linux/ Mac OSX for either backend or frontend services
• Experience with BDD testing paradigm and one of the Behavior Driven Testing frameworks such as Spock or JBehave or cucumber
• Knowledge in microservices and automation
• Experience working in an Agile development process (Scrum/ Kanban)
• Experience with one or more version control systems such as Github, Gitlab

Responsibilities

• Develop test automation suites to expand test coverage to all our microservices and integrate it into regression and release process
• Support the team for all releases and communicate issues to product in a timely manner
• Deliver tools to help test integration with third-party services (Payment Rails, SMS/Email, KYC (know your customer), Analytics, etc.)
• Integrate automated tests execution into the software development process
• Collaborate with Squad Lead and other key stakeholders to strategize rollout
• Support and collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) in identifying automation areas to further increase the quality of our product
• Maintain, review, propose and implement improvements to existing frameworks, tools and processes
• Continuous Learning of new tools and helping the team in optimizing the test framework consistently