Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

TSR Consulting Services, Inc.; Edgewood (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial company is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test for a contract position. This remote role involves leading test strategy development, automation scripting, and ensuring quality standards. Candidates should have 3-5 years of QA experience, proficiency in Java or Selenium, and familiarity with CI/CD practices. The position offers a pay range of $59-60 per hour.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as QA Engineer or SDET.
• Hands-on experience with Java or Selenium.
• Proficient in CI/CD integration and pipeline tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead definition and design of test strategies.
• Develop and maintain automated scripts.
• Drive conversion of manual tests to automated.

Skills

QA Engineer

Java

Selenium

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Test automation

JIRA

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

Cucumber

Python

GIT

Job description

Our client, a leading financial company, is hiring a Software Development Engineer in Test on a contract basis.

This is a contract position expected to last approximately 6 months. This is a remote role where you will work off-site. Travel is limited and generally used for team learning and collaboration meetings.

Summary

This is a remote role with limited travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead definition and design of test strategies/cases with a focus on manual and automated testing.
• Develop and maintain automated scripts and perform failure analysis to determine root cause of issues.
• Work alongside software and product teams to develop testing criteria for automated and manual regression testing where necessary.
• Assist with triage, diagnose and resolution of issues discovered across the platform.
• Drive the conversion of manual tests to automated whenever possible, and support manual testing efforts while the transition is in process.
• Uphold the client quality organizational standards and procedures, including our coding best practices.
• Support QA Tools and activities as needed.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as QA Engineer, or SDET.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Information Systems or related field preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Java or Selenium.
• Designing, implementing, and running test cases; working with test processes, methodologies, tools, and technology; performing functional and UI testing, quality reporting.
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches.
• Proficiency CI/CD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker or other similar tools.
• Experience in Gherkin (BDD /TDD) using Cucumber/Jbehave.
• Experience using JIRA, ALM, Xray or any relevant Test management tool.
• Proficiency in UI automation (Serenity/Selenium, Robot, Watir).
• Experience developing utilities using Java, Python or any scripting languages.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and within a team environment.
• UFT/Selenium experience preferred in building object repositories, standard & custom checkpoints, parameterization, reusable functions and recovery scenarios.
• Knowledge of VBScript, C#, Java, HTML, and SQL.
• Experience using GIT or other Version Control Systems.
• Experience developing, supporting, and/or testing web applications.
• Ability to understand API – JSON and XML formats with experience.
• Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team.

Pay Range: $59-60 per hour.