Job Title: Lead Quality Engineer / Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location: Remote

Who We Are:

Vernovis is a Total Talent Solutions company that specializes in Technology, Cybersecurity, Finance & Accounting functions. At Vernovis, we help these professionals achieve their career goals, matching them with innovative projects and dynamic direct hire opportunities in Ohio and across the Midwest.

Come join us:

Vernovis is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to provide thought leadership within the Quality Engineering discipline as well as ensuring quality though delivery of test automation best practices. You will be responsible for developing new test automation frameworks using various automation tools, maintaining existing test automation code with a high degree of quality, leveraging strong software design and test automation principles, and using personal ingenuity and creativity to find new ways to test software solutions.

Successful candidates will work together with all members of the agile team, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to determine customer and product requirements and their applicability to product code and test code. They also perform exploratory testing, and must continually partner to openly exchange ideas and opinions, elevate concerns, and follow quality policies and procedures as defined by our clients quality governance standards.

What You'll Do:

• Work in an agile team, leading quality engineering efforts while collaborating with the agile team and ART(s).
• Have accountability for test strategy, test planning, framework implementation, and test execution within the agile team and ART(s).
• Implement high-quality, reusable, maintainable test automation code using various automation tools and frameworks.
• Create structured, clean, and cohesive test automation and exploratory tests for all new features and/or functional changes in the software, organized into repeatable test suites for native mobile applications and/or browser-based applications from the user interface as well as through APIs.
• Author test cases in test management software.
• Reproduce reported software problems, analyze data, and work with other team members to quickly remove obstacles.

What You'll Have:

• 5 or more years of experience as a SDET or Quality Engineer, in a high performance and dynamic team environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information systems or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven track record of building test automation in one or more programming languages (Java, JavaScript, etc.).
• Strong knowledge with several years’ experience testing APIs and backend infrastructure using tools like Postman, SoapUI, REST Assured, etc.
• Experience coordinating releases based on milestones and applying risk-based testing
• Experience with a code repository and versioning system such as GitHub.
• Experience with application life cycle management tools such as Digital.AI’s Agility, Jira, Quality Center, or similar tools
• Experience working in a Continues Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), or Continuous Testing (CT) environment using GitLab CI, Jenkins, Concourse, Circle CI or similar tooling.
• Proven knowledge of internet protocols, web proxies, caching and other web related fundamentals
• Experience working in a cloud environment.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Proficient in SQL
• Must be able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to management, business and IT sponsors, and technical resources in language that is appropriate for each group.
• Preferred experience with:
• Experience using WebdriverIO and Postman/Newman.
• Worked in a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) environment.
• Experience performing accessibility testing.
• Quality Engineering certifications (e.g. ISTQB).