Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

About Us: Prometric is a leading provider of technology-enabled testing and assessment solutions to many of the world’s most recognized licensing and certification organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies. We support more than 7 million test takers annually at our testing locations in 180 countries around the world. With over three decades of experience working with clients of all sizes across a multitude of industry sectors, our mission is to design and deliver the highest quality and most innovative testing solutions anytime, anywhere.

JOB OVERVIEW

Software Development Engineer in Test  (SDET) will work collaboratively as part of an agile development team and will provide software automation engineering expertise to deliver incremental features to a wide range of products.  Design, develop, and integrate tests into our automation frameworks, identify poor performing tests and implement fixes to increase reliability, log defects, test scalability of systems, and provides status reports on the progress of tasks.
 

The Prometric agile development primarily leverages C#, .Net, .Net Core, ASP.Net, MVC, HTML5, Angular, Bootstrap, React, NodeJS, Typescript, Electron, CSS3, RESTful WebAPI, WCF Web Services, Entity Framework,  SQL Server, Azure, and Hadoop (Java).

 

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Prometric (www.prometric.com) is a trusted test development and delivery provider to more than 300 organizations worldwide. Prometric serves as an industry gatekeeper, ensuring that people legitimately earn the credentials they seek to achieve, and thereby guaranteeing a fair testing experience for all who come through our doors.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Advise and build automation scripts (unit, integration, end-to-end, UI) ensuring code coverage and quality
• Create, execute, improve, and maintain automation test scripts through standard methodologies, closely monitor test results for swift feedback, and participate in peer code reviews
• Advocate and evangelize good testing practices, like pair programming, code reviews, Test Driven Development (TDD), Exploratory Testing, Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Identify, evaluate, report and document defects, questionable functions and inconsistencies in product content and outlook during the design and implementation phase
• Conduct Manual testing when required and lead and conduct Exploratory Testing sessions with the team. Establish and maintain comprehensive and well-structured test cases to organize component test scenarios, for documentation and knowledge sharing purposes
• Troubleshoot production issues as needed

 QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

 

 EXPERIENCE

• 5 to 7 years’ experience in software quality assurance or programming OR 7-9 years relevant work experience
• Good understanding of QA methodologies and strong ‘hands on’ experience developing test scripts for functional, performance, and regression testing that include automated, ad-hoc, and manual testing elements
• Good experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Build, Continuous Delivery Practices, Test Automation and related tool-sets (such as Selenium, Jenkins, NightwatchJS, etc)

• Solid programming background, experience with Javascript, NodeJS, Java, or similar
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms and data structures.

• Experience with testing within an Agile development environment

• Experience mentoring junior team members, overseeing code quality and evangelizing best practices

• Good oral and written communications, an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding

  

   SKILLS

• Working experience in cloud ecosystem (Azure, Google Cloud, AWS), Docker, Kubernetes is a plus 
• Experience working with Azure DevOps
• Understanding and experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Familiarity with PCI and/or FISMA (or similar) compliance standards preferred
• Experience working with CMMI

 

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

• N/A

 

Prometric is an equal opportunity employer: disability/veteran

Prometric is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and local law.