Software Development Engineer in Test III

Software Development Engineer In Test IIIDuties and Responsibilities: 1. Ability to review and understand complex test plans and designs to validate the quality of new and existing software functionality and support existing application testing capability. 2. Ability to take a defined complex test design and turn it into either appropriate manual or develop required automated test cases and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. Can also call out potential coverage gaps or missing test scenarios within that test design. 3. Works with more senior Software Development Engineers in Test on team and overall organization to understand and contribute to the technical vision of team, help to define best practices, analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs and make the right decisions to ensure future success. 4. Write stable, efficient, and maintainable automated test code. Use technology to solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team members. 5. Works with Software Development Engineer in Test I and II to mentor and support them as they create manual or develop automated tests based on defined test plans 6. Has developed an understanding of the business domain and collaborates with subject matter experts and business partners to further extend their business context and domain knowledge. 7. Insist on relentlessly high standards by promoting a culture of highly automated testing with minimal manual test activity and continuously support the release top quality software using automation and monitoring. Participates in code reviews and enforces best coding practices and organizational coding standards 8. Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve automated test code, making it better and easier to maintain. 9. Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions. Invent, refine, and develop solutions to ensure software testing results are meeting customer needs and team goals. Responsible for tactical ownership and hands-on design implementation, and support of components within your team's projects. 10. Collaborates with leads and QA Architects to establish a technical vision for your Agile team, define best practices, analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs and make the right decisions to ensure your teams future success. 11. Solve complex problems, by understanding them and translating them and making the right decisions to ensure future success. 12. Collaborate with subject matter experts and business partners to understand the needs of the business and our customers and create test scenarios to deliver the high- quality solutions to our customers. Job Summary: As a member of an Agile Team, responsible for delivery of software testing tasks in support of business capabilities and the foundational needs of the overall solution. In addition to continuing to extend grow test automation development skills, automation tools, domain knowledge and understanding of SDLC and Agile Methodology, provides technical expertise and skills to deliver high-quality software testing services and employs software engineering methods in the delivery of the same. Responsible for supporting the team to achieve high degrees of automation using well established DevOps and Agile practices working with Product managers, business stakeholders and other technology practitioners (Software engineers, QA Architects and Solution Architects). May support software development in business applications, digital or data solutions Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 1. Experience in the practical application of QA test automation with an object-oriented programming language (JAVA preferred) 2. Can demonstrate practical application of API Testing tools (SOAP, Rest Assured, etc.) 3. Strong collaboration skills and can lead working sessions with the team 4. Experience in the practical application of SDLC and testing methodologies 5. Experience in the practical application test automation tools (Selenium, RestAssured, etc.) 6. Experience in the practical application of main automation design patterns 7. Experience in the practical application testing framework (JUnit, TestNG) 8. Working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline automation tools (Jenkins, Docker, etc.) 9. Working knowledge data querying and validation skills using SQL 10. Working knowledge of Cloud automation tools & services 11. Working knowledge in fully automated QA (TDD, BDD, Performance, Security, Integration/Compatibility, Regression, and Functional Testing), API-Driven Development and systems design, Enterprise-level scale and complexity, 12. Basic knowledge and exposure to application testing for Cloud-based applications 13. Good understanding of and adherence to rigorous engineering and development processes and "Best Practices", including Extreme Programming practices Agile Methodology Implementation, Code and Systems Reusability, CI/CD, DevOps, complete, thorough, and effective fully Automated Quality Assurance. 14. Deliver code reviews that are rapid and uneventful. Consistently provide useful code reviews for changes submitted by others. 15. Helps train and mentor interns and apprentices and Software Development in Test Level I and II Licenses and Certifications: Property and Casualty Insurance domain experience. Years of Experience: 3 to 5 years and Successful professional experience in the design, delivery, and support of complex projects across web platforms & mobile applications, with internal and external design, development, and quality assurance teams. Deep and direct hands-on experience with the specific technologies used in the teams systems/solutions. Proven ability to deliver artifacts that set the raise the bar within your team for engineering excellence, from designs to algorithms to implementations. Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent.