Software Engineer in Test (Junior)

About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

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Position Overview

As an Automation Engineer, you will work with product managers to understand the customer needs, design the functionalities, and translate requirements to test plans. You will evaluate risks in the system, build and optimize automation frameworks to guard the robustness, scalability and security of the micro-services that power our SaaS platform. Also, you will develop tools that make our development, testing, deployment and monitoring systems efficient. You’ll have the full power of AWS at your disposal while you focus on building and testing Serverless solutions (either brand new or assisting in migrating services to Serverless). As part of our core governance teams, your team will fully own their services (from code to deployment and monitoring), you’ll participate in feature design and architecture discussion and regularly demo to the entire department.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and document test strategies and automated solutions for functional and non-functional testing.
• Integrate test automation with build and delivery pipeline; optimize the pipelines and coach others on continuous delivery principles so we can release to production regularly, quickly and safely.
• Establish processes and toolset to maintain automation executions and generate quality metric and test reports.
• Work closely with Product team, analyze functional requirements, use cases, and explain to team.
• Work in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean-time-to-recovery, and Change Failure Rate.
• Provide guidance on test designs and automation best practices, provide constructive peer code reviews so everyone can grow and learn alongside you.
• Help break down initiatives to deliver increments of the requirements to each stage.
• Independently manage your tasks in JIRA with minimum Manager involvement.

What you need to succeed

What Diligent Offers You

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.

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