SDET Software Development Engineer

***We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role***

***Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a SDET Software Development Engineer. Candidate will be creating, maintaining and executing automation test plans, writing code against software platforms, estimating testing efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking and participation in day-to-day acceptance test activities, and contribute to the company s performance and scalability testing efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems
• Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you
• Contribute to our long-term vision and strategy for improved quality via automation
• Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks
• Identify quality tasks during team sprint cycle and implement automation for new features
• Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking
• Participate in performance and load test efforts
• Assist in the planning, creation and control of the test environments and test data
• Define test strategy, conduct requirements analysis for testability, identify scope, conduct risk and mitigation planning, configuration management planning, write master and detailed test plans for test planning and design.
• Participate in the review of acceptance test procedures and processes and provide recommendations for improvements to eliminate redundancies in testing and improve efficiency.

Qualifications:

• The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of technical experience building automated solutions within regulated industries
• 1+ years of within a leadership or senior role on cross-functional engineering teams
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Hands-on experience with writing automation test code and utilizing leading industry standards tools and frameworks that can simulate complex multi-system scenarios
• Proficiency with automated testing types (Unit, Functional, Load, Security, Behavioral, Integration, Component, Contract and End to End)

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with automated testing types (Unit, Functional, Load, Security, Behavioral, Integration, Component, Contract and End to End)
• Experience working with two or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software systems development, security software development, public-cloud platforms
• Automated Testing framework experience (Cucumber, Selenium, Mocha/Chai, TestNG)
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of technical experience building automated solutions within regulated industries
• 1+ years of within a leadership or senior role on cross-functional engineering teams
• Excellent Oral and written communication skills
• Java based software development experience
• Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles
• Automated testing framework experience
• Financial markets work experience, knowledge of trade and settlement lifecycle.