- Position: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
- Form of employment: contract of employment
- Place of work: 100% remote
- Core working hours: 16:00–20:00 CET are the core working hours, with flexibility for the remaining hours.
Our client combines a buyer database of over 270M contacts and powerful sales engagement and automation tools in one, easy-to-use platform. Trusted by over 160,000 companies, it has more than one million users globally. By helping sales professionals find their ideal buyers and intelligently automate outreach, our client helps go-to-market teams sell anything.
The role:
We are looking for a Senior SDET Engineer. You will work on quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization in combination with building and scaling the production environment. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience, a passion for quality engineering, systems engineering, automating operations, infrastructure security, high-availability systems, and software development experience. We are heavily invested in Ruby on Rails, Mongo, and ElasticSearch. As a Senior SDET Engineer, you will be a critical part of a growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You’ll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship, and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You are agile enough to jump into most projects and be hungry to build more.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement the overall testing strategy and methodologies for the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and software development goals
- Drive the adoption of CI/CD practices, ensuring automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed in deployment pipelines.
- Conduct research on emerging technologies, tools, and processes in software testing; evaluate and recommend their adoption to keep the organization at the forefront of testing best practices.
- Lead root cause analysis for complex bugs and issues, working with development teams to ensure long-term solutions are implemented.
- Collaborate with the DevOps/Infra team to improve our existing infrastructure solve daily operational challenges and improve Engineering productivity.
- Work cross-functionally with various teams at Apollo.
- Database support with MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RedisCache, and BigQuery.
- Define and implement the overall testing strategy and methodologies for the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and software development goals.
- Lead the design and development of advanced automated testing frameworks and tools that can scale and adapt to various projects and technologies.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate quality assurance processes early in the software development lifecycle.
- Drive the adoption of CI/CD practices, ensuring automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed in deployment pipelines.
- Serve as a thought leader in software testing, mentoring and guiding QE teams, and fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
- Conduct research on emerging technologies, tools, and processes in software testing; evaluate and recommend their adoption to keep the organization at the forefront of quality assurance practices.
- Oversee and manage complex testing projects, coordinating with multiple teams to ensure timelines, budgets, and quality targets are met.
- Lead root cause analysis for complex bugs and issues, working with development teams to ensure long-term solutions are implemented.
Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
- 5+ years of experience in developing software, automated frameworks, and test automation tools
- Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and various types of databases. You possess a good knowledge of MongoDB or ElasticSearch.
- Experience with technologies like Docker, VPN, and Kubernetes (strong experience with Kubernetes)
- Experience with Distributed systems
- Experience coding and programming using Java, Python, or similar programming languages
- Knowledge of automation frameworks like Cypress and Rspec
- Some exposure to modern backend programming languages, preferably Ruby