Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, Altana

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of real-world professional experience in quality assurance and test automation
• Extensive experience with test automation frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, etc
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD build systems (Gitlab, Azure Dev Ops, etc.)
• Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems
• You care deeply about engineering excellence and hold a high bar on quality
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• The Engineering team is responsible for building out the platforms, API’s, services, workflows, and user experiences for bringing this vision to life
• As Staff SDET, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability across our product surface are
• You will work closely with Software and ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Product managers to design, implement and drive the adoption of testing tools and methodologies that ensure a high bar of quality for all our software offerings
• Ingest product and architectural requirements, and design robust test automation frameworks and tools that ensure continuous quality of delivered engineering solutions
• Personally develop testing tools and frameworks, and integrate them into our build and deployment pipelines
• Work hand-in-hand with Engineering, ML and SRE leads to ensure that testing is incorporated into every step of the software and ML development lifecycle
• Define testing patterns and best practices to accomplish the above, and drive their adoption among engineering teams
• Work with Altana’s subject matter experts to understand their current quality validation workflows, and develop tools to automate or streamline these workflows
• Broaden the breadth and depth of our test coverage, particularly in the areas of Performance, Security, and end-to-end testing
• Mentor engineers of all skill levels in developing and maintaining automated tests