Sr Staff SDET

Role and Responsibilities :

• Guide the work of a group of SDETs in one or more functional areas with responsibility for all aspects of test automation, including framework enhancements and being an evangelist of quality.
• Review source code for potential problems, help debug and triage issues, and isolate fixes.
• Guide tool analysis, create proof-of-concept models, and make recommendations to support the tools selection process.
• Analyze, recommend, and implement industry best practices for coding guidelines, peer reviews, Git workflow, process workflow, quality gates, CI / CD processes, etc.
• Actively participate in reviews (walkthroughs) of technical specifications and program code with architects and developers. Communicate design, requirements, feature sets, functionality, and limitations of systems / applications to the team.
• Promote quality engineering processes, practices, and standards both within and across teams.
• Enable CI / CD integration for various automated test suites. Ensure proper test reporting, alerting, and enforcement of quality gates. Continuously evaluate opportunities for improvement.
• Invest in building robust data seeding and test execution techniques to ensure reliable test results.
• Collaborate with other teams including Release Management, SRE, Performance Engineering, Project Management, and Application Support to ensure successful delivery of new system features.
• Proactively engage with Product Owners from feature inception through functional validation to launch, always seeking to identify potential quality issues.
• Design and document comprehensive test strategies, testing guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), utilities, and tools to improve test automation efficiency.
• Triage customer issues, analyze production metrics, provide root cause analysis, and recommend system hardening measures. Maintain awareness of customers receiving new code / updates per the Release Schedule.
• Provide guidance to SDETs, Associates, and Seniors.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for multiple application areas and monitor the success of mentees.
• Provide oversight of a small group of SDETs. Ensure adherence to SOPs and design / coding guidelines.
• Proactively provide updates and reports to senior leadership.
• Lead the maintenance of test environments and test data creation, ensuring consistency with staging / production configurations.
• Work closely with SRE and Technical Implementation teams to develop tooling that improves environment stability, accuracy, and maintenance.

Job Requirements :

Preferred Qualifications