SDET Engineer III
OpenGov
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Sep 30, 2024
OpenGov is home to an exceptional team - passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. By bringing the OpenGov Cloud to our nation's state and local government, we’re transforming communities so they can thrive!
Imagine yourself being able to help small business owners open their doors faster, ensuring our tax dollars are accounted for, creating safer infrastructure, modernizing the permitting process, and assisting with disaster recovery. The work you do here every day has a meaningful impact on people's lives!
🌟 OpenGov is a 2023 Top Workplaces USA award winner and a Forbes America's Best Startup Employer 🌟
Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life!
Job Summary:
The SDET Engineer III will work hand-in-hand with developers in a fast-moving autonomous team. This position will take a hands-on role in performing functional testing of features and also designing and implementing automation tests, as well as testing frameworks with access to industry-standard tools and services to get the job done. Additionally, this role will support the broader team on best practices, processes, frameworks, tools, and automation to improve the overall quality of OpenGov applications and increase velocity and confidence in software delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Create testing artifacts such as test plans, test cases, test reports, and tests
- Review design documents and product requirement documents in close collaboration with product managers and tech lead for creating and documenting test plans and test cases for features
- Review test plan and test case documents as needed with key stakeholders.
- Perform code reviews for other SDETs in the team
- Work hand-in-hand with the developers and product manager for testing new features under development
- Perform manual and exploratory testing as a prerequisite for test automation, time-sensitive delivery scenarios, and unscheduled hotfix releases
- Develop automated tests for regression, feature testing, and performance testing
- Up-level overall QA team maturity by contributing to cross-functional efforts, monitoring test failures, and improving the frameworks that run the tests
- Work with CI tools to schedule tests, analyze test results, and share metrics and feedback with key stakeholders
- Be innovative and show initiative to improve quality processes and testing effectiveness
Requirements and Preferred Experience:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience required
- 5 or more years of industry experience, with 2 years as an SDET or a test automation engineer required, experience in SaaS companies preferred
- Experience improving quality through a combination of unit tests, load/performance tests, integration tests, UI and API tests, dependency testing, and monitoring
- Programming, debugging, and profiling skills in one or more of Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or any object-oriented programming language
- Has knowledge of testing tools like TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, etc.
- Strong understanding of API fundamentals. Experience performing manual tests and implementing automated API tests for REST and/or GraphQL services and microservice architecture; experience testing event-driven systems is a plus
- Strong experience using and working on UI automated testing frameworks like Playwright, Nightwatch.js, etc.
- Good understanding of database fundamentals
- Good understanding of Continuous Integration and Deployment tools and processes and how they integrate with quality cycles
- Experience creating testing artifacts such as test plans, test cases, and test reports, and gathering requirements, and clarifying ambiguities by communicating effectively with product managers and developers
- Experience with quality engineering for SaaS Platform teams is preferred. Interest in software system internals (e.g., “how things work”)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong orientation towards delivering results incrementally
- Strong technical background with detail-driven and excellent problem-solving abilities
- Self-starter who can collaborate effectively with the members of the product development team (product managers, architects, developers, etc.) and with cross-functional QA team members
- Experience with Load/Performance testing with JMeter/Gatling is highly preferred
What makes OpenGov unique
» Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018!
» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click here to read more.
» Culture: Winner of 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, Awarded Top 25 Cloud Companies to Work For, Winner of Forbes 2022 Best Startup Employers, 50 Best Workplaces award. Check out our Careers Video!
» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.
» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.
Come join us and make a positive social impact!
OpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.