Lead Software Test Engineer

Lead Software Engineer in Test

Desired Experience Range:

Location of Requirement:

Key Responsibilities

• As a Lead SDET, you will play a crucial role in strengthening test automation strategies, leading quality initiatives, and championing a culture of excellence in engineering.

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DE&E Technology

• Write and review a lot of code and test
• Enhance framework observability with proper metrics and presentations
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, Data, API and Integration levels of testing using python or other OO language
• Demonstrate ownership for the projects delivered by the team and department
• Knowledge of system design and implementation, best practices to guide and mentor
• Participate in design discussions for our platform to help evolve it in a way that enables richer testing scenarios that simplify detection and prevention
• Assist with triage, diagnosis, and resolution of issues discovered across teams.
• Contribute to end-to-end acceptance tests
• Where necessary, develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automated means
• Drive the conversion of manual tests to automated whenever possible

Required Experience/Skills:

• Minimum of 7 years of hands-on software test development experience, including both functional and non-functional test development

• Passion for driving best practices in the testing space

• Proficiency with Python or other OO language

• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience writing complex database queries
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
• Strong knowledge for establishing and improving product quality
• Experience building or improving test automation frameworks.
• Proficiency CICD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker and other similar tools.
• Proficiency in UI and API automation (Selenium, Robot, Watir)

• Proficiency in Gherkin (BDD/TDD)

• Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team