Developer - Software Tester

WESCO Distribution; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in electrical distribution is seeking a Software Development Test Engineer (SDET) in Pittsburgh. The role focuses on ensuring the quality of complex software products through automated testing and collaboration with Agile teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in IT and relevant experience in software development and testing.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in Software Development & Quality Assurance.
• Strong experience in writing clear, concise test cases.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Tests complex API, web and mobile applications.
• Creates and maintains automated test cases and executes test suites.
• Works with engineering teams to derive testing requirements.

Skills

Agile software development

Java

Selenium

Test-Driven Development

Behavior Driven Development

Strong verbal and written communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

Serenity framework

JIRA

CICD

GitHub

Maven

Rest Assure API

Job description

The Software Development Test Engineer (SDET) helps deliver the quality and performance of large scale, big data, custom hardware multi-platform software products that includes; web, API and mobile application interfaces. Incumbents in this position are experienced, hands on and self-motivated engineer who can work collaboratively in a continuous integration environment. This role involves working closely with Software Developers and Agile teams that includes leveraging shift-left methods to understand a complex domain and product. The SDET focuses on contributing to the development of automated Functional Integration tests and end-to-end tests through open source test frameworks for overall system testing within an Agile environment. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction.

Responsibilities:

• Tests complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems.
• Creates and maintains automated test cases, executes test suites, reviews and diagnoses reported bugs, and ensures overall system quality prior to a customer release.
• Designs, develops, maintains, and troubleshoots automated suites of tests through continuous integration for value added feedback.
• Works with the engineering teams to derive testing requirements throughout the development cycle.
• Reproduces, debugs, and isolates problems and verify fixes.
• Works closely with software developers to create software artifacts including test plans, test cases, test procedures and test reports.
• Works cross functional areas with internal partner engineering teams in a disciplined agile environment.
• Estimates own testing tasks and works productively with minimum supervision while showing excellent team attitude.
• Participates in the performance testing and analysis framework for a web services architecture associated back-end applications.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology or related field required; Master's Degree preferred
• 2+ years of experience in Software Development & Quality Assurance
• Experience in Serenity framework
• Strong experience in writing clear, concise test case
• Strong experience with Agile software development process and DevOps
• Strong programming skill in Java, Selenium
• Knowledge of programming languages and process management methodology
• Good exposure to Behavior Driven Development or Test-Driven Development and experience in programming and testing
• Experience with JIRA
• Intermediate skill level of understanding of CICD, GitHub, Maven, Rest Assure API and DOM Concepts
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 25%

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About the company

WESCO International, Inc. is an American publicly traded Fortune 500 holding company for WESCO Distribution, a multinational electrical distribution and services company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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