SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST (SDET)

ALTEN; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services company in Atlanta is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). The role will involve designing and maintaining test software, defining automation strategies, and working closely with engineering teams to ensure product quality. Candidates should have 2-3 years of experience in test automation and strong skills in Java and Python. A competitive salary ranging from $110,000 to $130,000 is offered along with a full-time employment opportunity.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in IT with expertise in test automation.
• Hands-on experience with UI and API testing.
• Experience with OOP languages and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain software to test products/applications.
• Define automation strategy and execute test cases.
• Collaborate within agile teams and integrate tests into CI/CD.

Skills

Test automation expertise

Java

Python

Selenium

API testing

Communication skills

Tools

Postman

Jenkins

GitHub

Docker

Job description

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

ATLANTA, GA $110,000.00-$130,000.00

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute and maintain software to test the product/application
• Define automation strategy, automation cases as well as design tools for unit, functional and performance testing in a programmatic manner
• Participate in design and code inspections
• Propose improvements to existing processes and build automated tools, libraries and utilities to improve team speed, quality and efficiency
• Write testing code that exposes defects at production level, component and feature integration levels
• Work with a wide variety of technologies from front‑end UI to back‑end distributed web services
• Own the design and implementation of tests that help ensure end‑to‑end quality of major deliverables by working closely with multiple engineers and teams
• Integrate tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline
• Contribute to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principles
• Collaborate effectively within a team environment

Qualifications

• 2‑3 years of experience in IT with expertise in test automation of applications at UI and API layers
• Hands‑on experience writing and maintaining automated UI and API tests in Java, JavaScript, C#, Python using Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc.
• Experience with OOP languages such as Java, C# and scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Shell, Bash
• Experience with API and microservices testing and automation
• Knowledge of Test‑Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior‑Driven Development (BDD) with frameworks like Cucumber, JBehave
• Hands‑on experience with one or more querying languages such as SQL (preferred), Oracle, MySQL and/or NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience deploying applications in AWS or OpenShift (Kubernetes)
• Hands‑on experience automating backend REST services, including writing custom functions using Postman, REST Assured, Karate, Cypress, ReadyAPI, etc.
• Experience building a test automation framework from scratch using modular architecture and design patterns such as Page Object Model (POM)
• Experience working in distributed agile teams using frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, XP
• Hands‑on experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI
• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs using Jenkins
• Hands‑on experience with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit
• Hands‑on experience creating test reports from automation runs using tools such as Cucumber reports, Extent reports
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies
• Strong communication skills with peers, business analysts and subject matter experts; ability to listen and convey ideas effectively and prepare documentation
• Proactive nature with customer satisfaction as primary goal
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently puts safety and security first for self and others
• Preferred qualifications include: knowledge of travel industry, infrastructure automation using Docker, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, virtualization for test automation with WireMock, Mockito, experience with test management and agile tools such as VersionOne, qTest, container orchestration, and non‑functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, accessibility and usability testing

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Other

Industry

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Equal Employment Opportunity

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