Junior Software Development Engineer in Test

Job Title:

Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Reports To:

Team Lead – Software Development

Department:

Technology – Software Development

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Prometric (www.prometric.com) is the recognized global leader in technology-enabled assessment services, providing Remotely Proctored, Internet, computer-based testing solutions, and paper-and- pencil. It offers a fully integrated next generation testing systems that include candidate scheduling, test development, test delivery, and data management capabilities. On behalf of 600 current clients in the academic, professional, government, corporate and information technology markets, Prometric develops and/or delivers assessments through a global network of testing centers in 132 countries as well as direct to candidates via the Web.

Software Development Engineer in Test will work collaboratively as part of an agile development team and will provide software automation engineering expertise to deliver incremental features to a wide range of products.

Design, develop, and integrate tests into our automation frameworks, identify poor performing tests and implement fixes to increase reliability, log defects, test scalability of systems, and provides status reports on the progress of tasks.

The Prometric agile development primarily leverages C#, .Net, .Net Core, ASP.Net, MVC, HTML5, Angular, Bootstrap, React, NodeJS, Typescript, Electron, CSS3, RESTful WebAPI, WCF Web Services, Entity Framework,

SQL Server, Azure, and Hadoop (Java)

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct Manual testing when required and lead and conduct Exploratory Testing sessions with the team
• Execute test plans, testcases, test scripts with some assistance. Reporting and ownership of issues.
• Advise and build automation scripts (unit, integration, end-to-end, UI) ensuring code coverage and qualityCreate, execute, improve, and maintain automation test scripts through standard methodologies, closely monitor test results for swift feedback, and participate in peer code reviewsAdvocate and evangelize good testing practices, like pair programming, code reviews, Test Driven Development (TDD), Exploratory Testing, Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD)Identify, evaluate, report and document defects, questionable functions and inconsistencies in product content and outlook during the design and implementation phaseEstablish and maintain comprehensive and well-structured test cases to organize component test scenarios, for documentation and knowledge-sharing purposes
• Troubleshoot production issues as needed

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and typically 1 to 2 years’ experience in software quality assurance or programming OR 2-4 years relevant work experience
• Good understanding of QA methodologies and strong ‘hands on’ experience developing test scripts for functional, performance, and regression testing that include automated, ad-hoc, and manual testing elements Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Build, Continuous Delivery Practices, Test Automation and related tool-sets (such as Selenium, Jenkins, NightwatchJS, etc)Programming background, experience with Javascript, NodeJS, Java, or similar
• Experience with testing within an Agile development environment
• Good oral and written communications, an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding.