Associate Principal, Software Engineering – SDET

Jobtailor; Illinois; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Illinois seeks an automation tester to design and champion automation strategies that keep mission-critical financial systems stable, performant, and continuously deliverable.

You will partner with developers, product owners and platform engineers to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle—from sprint planning through production release; create, maintain and execute automation test plans; write code against software platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile environment and delivering software in sprints.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing and maintaining test cases with automation frameworks.
• Ability to simulate complex multi-system scenarios and validate end-to-end workflows.
• Strong testing background including creating tests, automating them and using test frameworks.
• Understanding of SDLC and proven track record implementing software applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and champion automation strategies that keep mission-critical financial systems stable, performant, and continuously deliverable
• Partner closely with developers, product owners, and platform engineers to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle—from sprint planning through production release
• Create, maintain and execute automation test plans
• Write code against software platforms
• Estimate testing efforts
• Analyze and communicate test results, defect tracking and participate in day‑to‑day test activities (functional, regression and integration)
• Contribute to the company's performance and scalability testing efforts
• Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks
• Identify quality tasks during team sprint cycle and implement automation for new features
• Support regression testing and introduction of required changes as new releases are introduced
• Build upon/maintain professional relationships with key colleagues and vendors

Skills

Agile environment

Test automation

Automation frameworks

SDLC understanding

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

• Design and champion automation strategies that keep mission‑critical financial systems stable, performant, and continuously deliverable
• Partner closely with developers, product owners, and platform engineers to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle—from sprint planning through production release
• Create, maintain and execute automation test plans
• Write code against software platforms
• Estimate testing efforts
• Analyze and communicate test results, defect tracking and participate in day‑to‑day test activities (functional, regression and integration)
• Contribute to the company's performance and scalability testing efforts
• Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks
• Identify quality tasks during team sprint cycle and implement automation for new features
• Support regression testing and introduction of required changes as new releases are introduced
• Build upon/maintain professional relationships with key colleagues and vendors

Requirements

• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Hands‑on experience with design, develop and maintain testcases by utilizing leading industry standards tools and automation frameworks that can simulate complex multi‑system scenarios
• Experience working with two or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software systems development, security software development, public‑cloud platforms
• Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automate test cases, and working with test frameworks
• Understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC), including proven experience in implementing software applications