ALTEN · 1 week ago
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST (SDET)
ALTEN is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, develop, and maintain software for testing products and applications. The role involves defining automation strategies, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure end-to-end quality of deliverables.
Information Technology
Responsibilities
Design, develop, execute and maintain software to test the product/application
Define automation strategy, automation cases as well as Design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner
Participate in design and code inspections
Propose improvements to our existing processes and build automated tools, libraries and utilities in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency
The testing code you write should expose defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration perspective
Work with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web services
Own the design and implementation of tests that will help in end-to-end quality of major deliverables working closely with multiple engineers and teams to execute them
Integration of both the tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline is also a key responsibility in this position
Contribute to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principles
Collaborate effectively within team environment
Qualification
Required
2 to 3 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in test automation of applications from UI and API layer
Candidate should have hands on experience of writing, maintaining automated UI and APIs tests written in Java, JavaScript, C#, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc
Hands on experience in OOPs languages like Java, C# and scripting languages like Python, Perl, Shell, Bash etc
Experience with API and Microservices testing and automation
Knowledge and experience with Test Driven Development(TDD), Behavior Driven Development(BDD) with a testing framework like Cucumber, JBehave
Hands on experience with one or more querying languages such SQL (preferred), Oracle, MySQL and/or No SQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB etc)
Experience deploying applications in AWS or OpenShift (Kubernetes)
Hands on experience in automating backend REST services including writing custom functions using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Karate, Cypress, Ready API etc
Hands on experience of building test automation framework from ground up using modular framework and design pattern like Page Object Model design pattern (POM) etc
Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe, XP etc
Hands on experience of working with continuous integration tools such Jenkins, Circle CI
Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs using tools such as Jenkins
Hands on experience working with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit etc
Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc
Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies
Must have the ability to clearly communicate with peers, business analysts, and subject matter experts
Must have the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
Excellent verbal and written communication
Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
Preferred
Knowledge and experience with the Travel Industry
Infrastructure automation using docker and tools like Chef, Puppet, Terraform
Experience of working with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, s3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, etc
Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc
Experience of working with test management and agile management tools such as VersionOne, qTest etc
Experience of working with container orchestration tools such as docker, RED Hat OpenShift, AWS CloudFormation
Experience of non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, accessibility and usability testing
Company
ALTEN
Alten is high-technology consulting and engineering group. The group's services are supplied to technical departments.
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