Lead SDET Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Purpose

At oneZero, you will manage and supervise other SDET QA to ensure application code performs as expected in terms of function, compatibility, design, and performance. You will also operate at all levels of the testing pyramid, mentoring the team to validate suitability for purpose. You will collaborate with team, engineering, and product colleagues to ensure consistently high quality software.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

• Quality and Best Practices Champion - Promotes automation first approach to test plans that incorporate both positive and negative scenarios. Identifies functional interdependencies between squads that optimize testing of related/dependent features. Participates and leads in postmortem activities to better understand and automate escapes and implement process improvements. Helps ensure both stories and epics meet both Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).

• Automated Test Developer - Designs effective automation to validate the intended functionality using common classes and shared configs that keep the framework lean and fast. Ensures automated tests are incorporated into CI/CD pipeline and ensures test results are monitored. Be a hands-on lead and automate and validate end-to-end system/functional workflows within multiple components.

• Agile Practitioner - Demonstrates understanding of Agile principles and supports the overall delivery for product releases. Accurately estimates stories and one’s own capacity. Processes retrospectives and applies Kaizen principles to daily work.

• Business Domain Expert - Has business domain experience and extends business domain through purposeful study. Has a client-centered approach and promotes customer personas and application workflows as a testing practice. Identifies domain knowledge gaps within the team and recommends individualized training options. Demonstrates analytical, systems, and innovative thinking. Acquires subject matter expertise in application under test to a level of demonstrating and training others.

• Test Framework Developer - Learns the appropriate uses of, architecture for, and construction of test frameworks and tooling. Suggests and implements improvements to the test framework. Works with multiple frameworks; REST/API, GUI, performance, ETL/big data as well as custom test solutions. Incorporates AI and new technologies into our framework that boost both productivity and product quality.

• Tier 3 Support Troubleshooter - Understands the production support model. Understands how production environments are deployed and configured. Prioritizes production issue troubleshooting and delegates to the team.

Experience/Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in the Hard Sciences (Computer Science, Math, Engineering preferred)
• 10+ years of software development or automation development or technical team leadership experience
• Demonstrable experience with CI/CD, BDD/TDD, C#, Relational Databases and Python/JavaScript
• Familiarity with performance tools like Neoload/JMeter/Etc
• Experience with Playwright
• Experience managing technical automation QA teams in an agile and CI/CD environment
• Finance industry experience
• Experience using generative AI within a development environment

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Business Orientation (Proficient) - Understands the needs and priorities of internal and external clients. Conducts work with a customer point of view. Observes and reports problems relevant to the client and works to gain their trust and respect.

• Cooperation (Advanced) - The ability to work effectively with others in order to achieve a shared goal- even when the objective at stake is of no direct personal interest. Acknowledge the contribution from others disciplines; Discuss plans and ideas with others and invite them to contribute; Is able to compromise- lets a group's interest prevail over their own; Makes others see their contribution is vital for achieving a shared goal.

• Focus on Quality (Advanced) - Sets high quality standards and strives for continuous improvement. Encourages others to take quality into account; Self-manages and creates test and checks of the work of others to ensure work is up to prescribed quality standards; Indicates clearly and specifically what level of quality is expected.

• Initiative (Proficient) - Recognizes and creates opportunities and acts accordingly. Communicates and starts something than waiting passively for it to happen. Mentions and discusses practices that are inefficient and a drag on productivity and actively searches for and suggests solutions.

• Result Orientedness (Advanced) - Sets high standards, defines/achieves challenging yet feasible goals; Considers the option carefully; mobilizes means and people, even when others need to be persuaded of its necessity; Does not give in, actively looks for alternative possibilities when facing difficulties.

• Workmanship (Proficient) - Independently carrying out one's work. Has a thorough knowledge of one's field. Knows the causes and solutions to commonly occurring problems; shows interest in his professional field- keeps their professional knowledge up-to-date by all means possible; Shows what has priority and where necessary, changes the work order; Sees work that has to be done and takes initiatives to get it done.

Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $115,000 - $145,000, depending on relevant experience.