What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) position at Photon?
As an SDET, you will leverage your strong software engineering and test automation expertise to design, develop, and maintain robust testing solutions that ensure the quality and reliability of customer-facing applications.
Your responsibilities will include building and enhancing automated test frameworks, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, and driving best practices for test coverage and code quality. You will work closely with development teams, partners, technology leads, and agile teams to validate functionality, performance, and security.
The Expertise You Have
- Bachelor s degree required; technology-related field preferred
- 9 years of experience testing and automating front-end and webservice applications
- Hands-on experience with object-oriented programming languages (Java, C#, Groovy, etc.), HTTP, RESTful web services, Jenkins, and Git
- Strong experience with API testing.
- Experience using UI test automation frameworks (Selenium, Protractor, etc.)
- Experience testing and automating webservices (HttpClient, RestAssured, JMeter, SoapUI, etc.)
- Ability to investigate and debug issues with front-end applications and web services
- Experience testing Angular web applications
- Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience in delivering software in the Agile environment.
The Skills You Bring
- Experience designing and building applications and using test automation frameworks
- Multi-stack engineer with knowledge in a breadth of technologies and test automation frameworks (Java, Groovy, Selenium, Geb, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTTP, RESTful web services)
- Extensive experience working with Java and its ecosystem
- Strong advocate for Test-Driven Development, writing testable and maintainable code