Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Tideworks, you are a member of an agile-oriented cross-functional team of software engineers, testers, technical writers, and designers who leverage software to solve real-world problems in the container industry. You actively develop new test automation code and work to maintain existing code with a high degree of quality, leveraging software design and test automation principles to write maintainable and efficient automated tests within the Tideworks test framework structure. You write test code across all tiers of an N-tier architecture (including client-tier, middle-tiers, and back-end), test integrated software systems with third parties, and develop and maintain robust automation suites, building and leveraging configuration and deployment automation tools.

Keeping the client at the heart of all that you do, you work with Business Analysts to review feature specifications, requirements, and product design for testability; with Testers to understand and write detailed test cases and scenarios, and to help debug issues; with Application Support to understand, debug, and resolve issues found by clients; and with managers and leaders to ensure achievement of Tideworks’ critical OKRs. The position contributes towards the maintainability and scalability of the test automation framework, delivering high quality product testing and test automation.

• Ensure high-quality software deliverables by leveraging automation and tooling best practices.
• Participate in the development of features, applications, and products by testing quality of the implementation.
• Work to implement high-quality, fault-tolerant, clean, reusable, and maintainable automation tools and test frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of test strategies and test plans.
• Write maintainable and efficient automated tests, and refactor/improve existing automated tests, with the existing test framework.
• Participate in enhancing/improving the existing test framework to write more efficient tests.
• Leverage the DevOps toolchain to automate the build, integration, and testing for integration tests.
• Perform static code analysis to improve quality and spot common security vulnerabilities.
• Review test automation codes.
• Chase out requirement and design defects with behavior-driven-development (BDD) and test-driven-development (TDD).
• Work with the agile team to develop and track key metrics to understand and improve test effectiveness and coverage.
• Work to create structured, clean, and cohesive test cases for all new features and/or functional changes in the software, organized into repeatable test suites.
• Participate in estimation exercises and sessions.
• Take initiative to participate in the iteration of the test automation framework and any in-house tools required.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and isolate problems with tests.
• Contribute to the growth of Tideworks’ collective knowledge through strong code-level and knowledge base documentation.
• Build a deep understanding of Tideworks’ products, clients, product configurations, and data.
• Create and manage against OKRs.
• Mentor and train junior team members on test automation, quality engineering principles, approach, etc. through peer review, regular knowledge sharing sessions, and other methods.
• Other duties as assigned.