SDET (API Testing)...Sam Francisco,CA

Position: SDET(API Testing)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Employment Type ::Contract
 
Software Development Engineer in Test
We build high scalability; low latency systems, which are inherently reliable and fault tolerant, developed on top of microservices and modern UI frameworks. Join our fast paced and highly collaborative team to build APIs, front-end web experience, tools and applications that power, extend and showcase our platform. We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard in fast paced environment, challenge the status quo and relentlessly strive for excellence, yet we like to have a good time, with a fun filled atmosphere.

What we are looking for

• Guarantees the health of the service. Be the go-to person to identify where the issues are- test the service before fixing the automation.
• Have total ownership and knowledge of what is going on in the service.
• Investigate defects including what is failing and where is it failing.
• Design and maintain automated tests that provide functional, regression and integration test coverage for applications and services.
• Research emerging test tools, trends and methodologies and enhance existing systems and processes.
• Ensure new engineering projects are testable.
• Develop reporting tools and test metrics.
• Document software defects and determine root cause analysis for issues.
• Address multiple testing concerns such as functionality, performance, security, accessibility, and localization.
• Architect and implement scalable test automation infrastructures, test fixtures and harnesses that will be utilized across multiple test and development teams.
• Represent test in product and development teams.

Work experience must have included:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus in test automation framework development.
• Strong coding skills in one or more Object Oriented programming languages: C# OR Java
• Experience with algorithms and data structures
• Background in backend API level testing and performance testing processes and tools
• Proven track record of test planning and test metrics generation for web applications and services
• Hands-on experience with one or more relational databases.
• Strives to implement Agile Testing Quadrants
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

Additional information:
A great percentage of developers are dealing with APIs everyday. Our client develops APIs and makes them accessible to other developers. As the importance of API development grows, we also realize that being able to test these APIs properly is a crucial task. There are various ways and levels of testing that can be done on APIs:

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Performance Testing

• Team size is currently 9 but will grow to 15 in a few months (multiple openings)
• Focus: Integration and optimization of APIs
• Must be able to do service level API testing
• Technology: Java, Node.js
• The successful candidate will have complete ownership of their own feature
• There is already a framework in place for them to use
• They must have sound coding skills and experience with service level testing and automation (aka experience with microservices)
• Must have experience with issue resolution when looking at logs. (Have them explain their debugging process)
• E-commerce experience is a huge plus
• Interview process will consist of 2-3 rounds:
  • Phone Screen (will include a coding exercise)
  • In-Person (team interview)
• Will consider out of state candidates but they must be willing to relocate
• Subcontractors are okay

 

Abhishek Sahu
Lead Technical Recruiter 
Cybertec, Inc.,
11710 Plaza America Drive
Suite #2000, Reston, VA 20190
Direct: 703-662-0082
Fax: 703-871-5291
Email:abhishek@cy-tec.com
URL:www.cy-tec.com
 

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