Software Engineer - QA Automation

General Motors; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company seeks a Software Engineer - QA Automation to enhance testing automation for back-end services. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in software development, experience in test automation, and a commitment to quality software delivery. This hybrid role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and requires physical presence in Michigan multiple times a week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering & development experience in Python and Java.
• At least 1 year experience developing test automation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to foster collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop, document, and execute testing automation for high performance back-end services.
• Implement and maintain testing automation framework and processes.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and assist in technology evaluations.

Skills

Test Automation

Software Development

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Selenium

Robot Framework

Job description

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Software Engineer - QA Automation

Apply remote type Hybrid locations Warren, Michigan, United States of America Mountain View, California, United States of America Austin, Texas, United States of America time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR-202503225

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI, Austin, TX, and Mountain View, CA three times per week, at minimum.

The Role:

As a Software Engineer, you will develop, document, and execute testing automation for high performance back-end services for Vehicle Domain – VCS both on-prem and in the cloud. You will need a strong foundation in software development, databases, and integration of solutions across services. You will work with a team of experienced software engineers, subject matter experts, architects, and quality engineers as you develop and execute automated test cases to ensure out software meets our requirements. As a software engineer for validation and testing, you will also be working closely with our automation framework to identify candidate manual test cases for long term automation and incorporation into regression and integration test routines.

You will participate in the team’s scrum ceremonies, deployment and other devops activities. You are expected to understand the value of elegant and maintainable software design, the value of appropriate test automation, and the importance of building solutions that matter. The ideal candidate for this role will possess a passion for technology, a focus on the customer experience, and a desire to seek efficient ways to ensure quality software delivery.

This role also provides an opportunity to work across multiple teams within the organization to integrate our solutions with other domain services.

What you will do:

• Help implement, manage, and maintain our testing automation framework and associated processes ensuring a robust, stable, and reliable Quality Assurance platform.
• Assist in estimating and design work that is just-in-time and sized in small increments.
• Consistently follow the specified software development methodology
• Quickly design, develop, and execute test cases (including application data and vehicle data setup) in support of new software in regular increments.
• Document, track, and log defects in appropriate tool.
• Escalate any blockers to appropriate program manager.
• Follow best practices for software development, including high quality test cases, automated tests, documenting, monitoring and continue to raise the bar.
• Assist in performing technology evaluations, technology upgrades, tool upgrades, implement prototypes.
• Report status of assigned software testing and/or maintenance tasks

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Qualifications (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of software engineering & development experience utilizing industry standard design patterns in common languages such as Python and Java including Object oriented concepts.
• At least 1 year experience developing test automation.
• Experience performing unit, system, system integration, security, or application performance testing.
• Experience with design, development, optimization, and deployment of test automation suites. (Gherkin/Cucumber, Selenium, etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (PCF/OCF, Azure etc.) including testing of microservices.
• Knowledgeable with multiple interface patterns including RESTful APIs or event-based messaging.
• Familiarity with Java / JEE Business Solutions utilizing full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with Jira, GitHub, Artifactory, and similar systems along with experience in Unix/Linux shell scripting Familiarity with iterative and incremental development on product-focused teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively translate feedback, needs, and solutions into executable testing sequences.
• Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams. Ability to clearly connect with peers, as well as both business and technical focused teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience testing microservices utilizing Continuous Integration, Build, and Delivery, and infrastructure-as-a-service technologies & capabilities and their corresponding services (object store, configuration management, service registries, etc.). OCF and/or Azure cloud experience strongly preferred.
• Experience testing with Robot Framework or other Python scripting.
• Experience with Big Data technologies and developing in Hadoop ecosystem, i.e. Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, Scala, SPARK, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Python
• Experience with Oracle and/or Postgres, NoSQL with Yugabyte, and/or Cassandra and/or Cosmos, a plus with competency in writing basic SQL.
• Experience in Infotainment and/or telematics testing.
• High level understanding of Automotive CAN communications.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL

NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role is 118,000 to 188,400. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

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