SDET Lead

SDET Lead

Summary 

Trimble has an opening for a Lead Automation Engineer in Chennai, India. This is an exciting time to join as we grow and bring new features and technologies to our products and applications.

The SDET engineer is responsible for improving the quality of software releases through automation processes and tool enhancements. Working in an agile development environment, the SDET Engineer will develop and apply customized testing methodologies to show measurable improvements to the released software. In addition, this person is responsible for automating test cases and workflows to accelerate our testing and release cycles. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•  Implement and maintain automation scripts and test automation frameworks

• Continuously evaluate and improve defined software processes

• Plan, schedule, and implement testing projects

• Design and develop quality testing procedures; update and modify existing tests as necessary 

• Define test objectives and collaborate with the team and other departments to achieve project goals

• Perform moderately complex functional, application, regression, and performance testing

• Define and adhere to quality initiatives

• Provide metrics and results from all testing efforts that will support business decisions related to the quality of the product

• Recommend and evaluate test automation and performance tools

• Evangelize new automation techniques and best practices to QA team members

Competencies 

• Willingness and ability to quickly adapt and maintain software products and current testing technologies 

• Ability to accurately estimate task durations and meet schedules 

• Strong initiative, customer-service oriented, and commitment to insure timely, quality solutions to customer issues

• Well-organized, self-directed team player. Remains open to others’ ideas, and exhibits willingness to try new things 

• Prioritize and plan work activities, use time efficiently and develop realistic action plans 

• Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness and monitor own work to ensure quality

• Present information effectively, and is capable of interpreting written technical documentation 

• Adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and is able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events 

• Strategize and plan improvements in QA processes, tools, and best practices

• Demonstrate professionalism, strong English verbal and written skills, positive attitude, strong work ethic, and good judgment 

• Able to thrive in a highly collaborative teamwork environment

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field plus a minimum 5 years relevant experience in software quality assurance or equivalent combination of education and experience 

• Demonstrated test automation and scripting skills

• Strong understanding of testing & test automation processes

• Prior experience testing ETLs and working with SQL

• Prior experience in working with BI tools (Domo, PowerBI)

• Knowledge of cloud and virtualization testing environments

• Experience with QA-related tools and JIRA for requirements management, test management, and defect tracking

Preferred Qualifications 

• Knowledge in GUI automation tools like Sikuli is a plus

• Knowledge of performance and security testing tools and techniques

• Knowledge of web application testing tools and techniques

• Prior experience in a global work environment