SDET Lead (Full-Time -Remote)

Sopheon is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Lead to ensure the delivery of quality software for large and small development efforts for various strategic product efforts and Sopheon customers.

This position will have responsibility for software quality while working in a truly dynamic, continuous integration, and agile development environment.

This role requires expertise of QA methodologies, Software Delivery Life Cycle, Agile Development processes and Continuous Integration/Continuous-Delivery model.

You will work closely with Software Engineers to understand a complex domain and product.

The Principal SDET Lead focuses on contributing to the development of automated Functional Integration tests and end-to-end tests through test frameworks for overall system testing within an Agile environment.

This position typically works under limited supervision and direction and will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Job Responsibilities:
Leads software testing in agile/iterative software development and using collaborative development tools such as Jira
Define, conduct training on, and enforce quality standards, processes, best practices and guidelines across product lines
Designs and builds a complete load and performance testing framework
Designs, builds, maintains and improves automated testing frameworks
Develop and execute strategy for converting existing manual suite of tests into automated tests
Build and execute automated API tests
Proactively responsible for end-to-end defect analysis
Monitor and improve automated test coverage and effectiveness
Works productively and with minimal management supervision while showing excellent team attitude
Consistently delivers on work and schedule commitments
Ensure accurate estimates for test development and execution by quality team
Leads a small quality team by balancing resource needs across multiple projects and providing them with technical mentoring
Guides and mentors Quality personnel in all aspects of SDET, provides assistance and feedback to help them progress in their SDET careers
Test integration and continuous delivery and familiarity with tools to accomplish it

Job Requirements:
Prefer experience in either a Software Development Engineer or (SDET) Software Development Engineer in Test role
Experience working with on-prem and hosted enterprise implemented solutions as well as cloud-native COTS software products
Ability to generate test reports from both tools and manually
Experience leading ambiguous situations, dealing with technical issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure customer project deliverables
Strong Knowledge of C# , .NET programming languages
Knowledge of JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS and cross browser development
Experience with evaluating and developing test frameworks (Selenium WebDriver C#)
Excellent grasp and demonstrated history of complex performance testing
BDD and TDD system test methodology
Unit, integration, regression, and load/performance test experience
Experience with all aspects/phases of automation including GUI, integration and stress testing.
Programming and scripting experience such as C++/C/C#, perl, Python and Bash shell scripting is a plus

Personal/Interpersonal Skills
Strong drive to serve the user with world class software.
Ability to thrive in a highly agile, collaborative team environment.
Ability to learn quickly and apply new technologies to solve problems practically.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong team player with a high degree of flexibility.
Can do attitude and approach.
Good experience working with and constantly challenging agile/iterative software teams.
Must be detail oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with passion for quality and test automation.
Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.

Education & Experience
BS in Computer Science, MIS, CIS or related discipline
5+ years of automated testing experience
2+ years SDET Lead experience

Company Benefits

Please contact us to discuss how your skills and experience could influence the stated starting salary.

Employees are paid depending on their qualifications and locations.

The starting salary listed is for Colorado specifically.

Benefits in the US include:
Paid time off; holidays
Flexible work arrangement
Medical, Dental, Vision
Life & Long term disability insurance
Pet insurance
Accident & Critical Illness Insurance
Friday
– Flex Day
401K match
HSA
– Health Savings Account
Flex spending account
Short & Long Term Disability
Vaccination Status

In accordance with Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, this position is required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to safeguard the health of our employees and their families: our customers and visitors: and the community at large from COVID-19.