Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

SailPoint; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join their innovative team. This role focuses on backend development and requires a strong background in quality engineering and test automation. The ideal candidate will drive projects to completion, mentor team members, and improve testing methodologies. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the development of a robust Identity Security Cloud Platform. If you are passionate about quality assurance and automation, this is the perfect opportunity to enhance your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Benefits

Medical/Pharmacy Coverage

Dental Coverage

Annual Performance Bonus

Phone Reimbursement

Internet Reimbursement

Private Equity Options

33% Vacation Bonus

Christmas Bonus

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality engineering with test automation frameworks.
• Proficient in Java or GoLang and testing frameworks like Junit.
• Experience with REST APIs and microservice testing.

Responsibilities

• Design automation testing best practices and quality standards.
• Collaborate with engineers to develop automation tests.
• Maintain automation testing pipelines and improve workflows.

Skills

Java

GoLang

Test Automation

Quality Engineering

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Junit

TestNG

Mockito

Cypress

Postman

AWS

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform, Atlas delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise.

Our Identity Security Cloud team is looking for a well-rounded Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a focus on backend development. A successful Senior SDET should have excellent troubleshooting skills, experience writing automation tests, creating extensive test cases, and be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards. We are looking for someone capable of driving several projects to completion from a QA perspective and a skilled technician that can also serve as a mentor to the team.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing automation testing best practices, quality standards & processes.
• Manual testing of backend applications.
• Assisting engineers in the creation of automation tests.
• Maintaining healthy automation testing pipelines.
• Delivering recommendations on how to evolve testing best practices within the organization.

Requirements or things you will learn on the job:

• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering and experience in developing test automation frameworks.
• Proficient in Java or GoLang and testing frameworks such as Junit, TestNG, Mockito.
• Experience in TypeScript / JavaScript preferred.
• Proficient in writing test cases for verification of web applications.
• Experience writing Contract tests with tools like Pact, Postman, Cypress.
• Experience with testing REST APIs in a microservice environment.
• Experience with AWS and testing SaaS applications.
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog.
• Familiarity with setting up Synthetic monitoring or similar means of simulating user behavior on live services.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Cloudbees and CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience planning and executing multi-sprint tasks with experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-starter, Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What success looks like in the role:

Within the first 30 days you will:

• Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology.
• Proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your test and development environment.
• Familiarize yourself with the test framework codes and understand how the automated tests run.
• Familiarize yourself with the SailPoint SDLC and development tools and processes.

By 90 days:

• Assist in the maintenance of testing environments.
• Collaborate with backend engineers and engineering managers to develop best practices for automation testing.
• Monitor and analyze quality performance and the health of our automation testing pipeline.
• Assist developers with testing issues and improving the team’s knowledge in automation testing.
• Develop, promote, and maintain quality standards and quality control systems.
• Assist in manual verification of full feature testing and ensuring quality across all supported devices.

By 6 months:

• Proactively help improve quality methodologies within the organization to increase efficiency and work with other QA resources to form best practices for how to test our products.
• Assist in optimizing workflows and processes used in our CI/CD pipelines.
• Consistently lead code/design reviews & presentations.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.

By 1 year:

• Act as the subject matter expert in ISC quality.
• Coach and mentor other junior engineers on the team.
• Influence beyond engineering occasionally, with other internal groups or customers.
• Participate in planning sessions to gain knowledge of how to best create test plans for solutions designed.
• Suggest technologies that could help improve ISC quality.

SailPoint is committed to providing our Crew Members with a benefits program that is both comprehensive and competitive. Our benefits program offers medical/pharmacy and dental coverage, as well as financial security for our Crew Members and their families. All premiums are paid by SailPoint.

• Full time remote employment.
• Competitive salaries.
• Company sponsored healthcare coverage for you and your family.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Phone and internet reimbursement.
• Private equity at certain levels.
• 33% prima vacaciones.
• Christmas Bonus equivalent to 30 days of salary.

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.