Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
12 month contract
Hybrid onsite 3 days a week
Position's Contributions to Work Group
- Senior SDET – Extend testing automation framework using JAVA/JAVA Script
- Take ownership in understanding business requirements/ACs and develop test strategy/test plan
- Develop automation test cases using existing automation framework
Typical Day or Week in the Role
- Develop test automation code for CI/CD systems, infrastructure, and test frameworks.
- Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation frameworks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring for test engineers on onshore and offshore teams.
- Coordinate with Product Owners to resolve issues, enhancements, and upgrades.
- Develop automated functional scripts using Java, Karate, and JMeter.
- Perform exploratory and manual testing as appropriate.
- Provide expertise in testing methodologies, best practices, and standards.
- Interaction with team: Team of 20+ members.
- Work environment: Hybrid, Chicago office.
Education & Experience Required
- 8–10 years of experience.
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience.
Required Technical Skills
- Java (3–5 years)
- Cucumber (3–5 years), JBehave or other BDD frameworks
- 8+ years designing test automation frameworks
- REST API testing
- Test scripts, test cases, and test data
- SQL
- JMeter performance testing
- Full-stack and third-party integration testing
- End-to-end system integration testing
Desired Technical Skills
- Python
- AWS Cloud
- TDD
- CI/CD
- Code review practices
- Apigee/API gateways
- DevOps (Jenkins, Git)
- Agile/Lean
- Microservice architecture
- Load and performance testing
- Strong documentation skills
Soft Skills
- Adapt quickly to complex environments
- Proactive, flexible, and creative
- Excellent communication and collaboration with developers and business users