What are the responsibilities and job description for the SWD Eng In Test 5- Temple Portfolio position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
The Software Development Engineer in Test 5 is a professional, master role that leads the development and maintenance of test software source code to support complex multi-faceted solutions. As a technical lead, this role partners with other senior technical leadership to establish strategy, system architecture, standards and best practices for test automation. This position is responsible for architecting automated testing system and subsystems. This position will be expected to solve complex technical issues and complete programming and quality assurance tasks.
This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.
We value early, mid and late-career candidates and encourage all applicants with the posted skills and abilities to apply.
Responsibilities
In a sophisticated multi-faceted environment, this role will lead one or more teams in the development of automated software tests
Strategically partner with the technical lead in the establishment of system architecture, standards, and best practices for test automation
Leading the peer reviews of test automation design and coding
Provide technical leadership in the areas of global organization test automation processes, industry best practices, and new test automation technologies being adopted for the organization
Provide formal training, mentoring, or pair programming with other less experienced engineers in test.
Design automated testing strategies
Develop automated test code for software development projects
Collaborate with architects to ensure quality is considered in our architecture solutions
Lead the design, testing, and measures required to protect solutions from security compromise or system failure
Comply with policies, standards, and regulatory requirements and ensure all others are doing the same
Create or improve a centralized automated testing harness and testing framework to execute tests and provide automated quality reports
Create test data with valid and invalid records to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow
Coordinate with users to plan user acceptance testing, alpha and beta testing
Provide estimates for QA tasks
Develop technical documentation
Participate in our Defect Management process to identify and resolve issues
Effectively communicate risk and recommendations
Qualifications
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
The Software Development Engineer in Test 5 is a professional, master role that leads the development and maintenance of test software source code to support complex multi-faceted solutions. As a technical lead, this role partners with other senior technical leadership to establish strategy, system architecture, standards and best practices for test automation. This position is responsible for architecting automated testing system and subsystems. This position will be expected to solve complex technical issues and complete programming and quality assurance tasks.
This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.
We value early, mid and late-career candidates and encourage all applicants with the posted skills and abilities to apply.
Responsibilities
In a sophisticated multi-faceted environment, this role will lead one or more teams in the development of automated software tests
Strategically partner with the technical lead in the establishment of system architecture, standards, and best practices for test automation
Leading the peer reviews of test automation design and coding
Provide technical leadership in the areas of global organization test automation processes, industry best practices, and new test automation technologies being adopted for the organization
Provide formal training, mentoring, or pair programming with other less experienced engineers in test.
Design automated testing strategies
Develop automated test code for software development projects
Collaborate with architects to ensure quality is considered in our architecture solutions
Lead the design, testing, and measures required to protect solutions from security compromise or system failure
Comply with policies, standards, and regulatory requirements and ensure all others are doing the same
Create or improve a centralized automated testing harness and testing framework to execute tests and provide automated quality reports
Create test data with valid and invalid records to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow
Coordinate with users to plan user acceptance testing, alpha and beta testing
Provide estimates for QA tasks
Develop technical documentation
Participate in our Defect Management process to identify and resolve issues
Effectively communicate risk and recommendations
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent professional work experience
- Eight years of progressive relevant professional experience or significant internship
- Prior experience in a software engineer in test leadership role, leading a team (2 ) through the first and subsequent releases of several (3 ) successful products, and at least one of which must be a large-scale enterprise application
- Proven ability to architect automated testing system and subsystems
- Proven success in defining logic and algorithms to create automated test solutions and implementing them within the overall architecture
- Must have expert level skills in engineering/programming, analytical/diagnostic/troubleshooting, web technology, and programming methodology
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to create, communicate, and direct work toward accomplishing an overall technical vision
- Exceptional troubleshooter with the ability to solve problems in a timely manner under pressure
- Verifiable knowledge of the applicable technical systems and functions
- Proven success testing cloud-based applications in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in a service-oriented architecture
- Strong skills in engineering/programming, analytical/diagnostic/troubleshooting, web technology, and programming methodology
- This job operates in a professional office environment
- To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment
- Experience developing / testing complex, large-scale systems. Strong experience in the tools, methodologies, and technologies the role supports is preferred
- Three years of specialized experience in the technologies and methodologies of the product platform processes
- Experience in testing systems for scalability, fault tolerance, load, and other operational areas for a data center-based service is beneficial
- Experience building or using test frameworks to automate testing of native mobile applications (iOS).
- Experience in automated testing of multimedia playback and content on various hardware platforms.
- Experience in automated testing of network connected relay controllers, projectors, amplifiers and other audiovisual and control hardware
- Experience using modern AI testing tools (e.g. Applitools)
- Experience with AWS and cloud-based environments, including deploying and testing cloud services.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing in Agile or DevOps workflows.
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.