The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Job Description

The Software Development Engineer in Test 5 is a professional, master role that leads the development and maintenance of test software source code to support complex multi-faceted solutions. As a technical lead, this role partners with other senior technical leadership to establish strategy, system architecture, standards and best practices for test automation. This position is responsible for architecting automated testing system and subsystems. This position will be expected to solve complex technical issues and complete programming and quality assurance tasks.

This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.

We value early, mid and late-career candidates and encourage all applicants with the posted skills and abilities to apply.

Responsibilities

In a sophisticated multi-faceted environment, this role will lead one or more teams in the development of automated software tests

Strategically partner with the technical lead in the establishment of system architecture, standards, and best practices for test automation

Leading the peer reviews of test automation design and coding

Provide technical leadership in the areas of global organization test automation processes, industry best practices, and new test automation technologies being adopted for the organization

Provide formal training, mentoring, or pair programming with other less experienced engineers in test.

Design automated testing strategies

Develop automated test code for software development projects

Collaborate with architects to ensure quality is considered in our architecture solutions

Lead the design, testing, and measures required to protect solutions from security compromise or system failure

Comply with policies, standards, and regulatory requirements and ensure all others are doing the same

Create or improve a centralized automated testing harness and testing framework to execute tests and provide automated quality reports

Create test data with valid and invalid records to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow

Coordinate with users to plan user acceptance testing, alpha and beta testing

Provide estimates for QA tasks

Develop technical documentation

Participate in our Defect Management process to identify and resolve issues

Effectively communicate risk and recommendations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent professional work experience
• Eight years of progressive relevant professional experience or significant internship
• Prior experience in a software engineer in test leadership role, leading a team (2+) through the first and subsequent releases of several (3+) successful products, and at least one of which must be a large-scale enterprise application
• Proven ability to architect automated testing system and subsystems
• Proven success in defining logic and algorithms to create automated test solutions and implementing them within the overall architecture
• Must have expert level skills in engineering/programming, analytical/diagnostic/troubleshooting, web technology, and programming methodology
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to create, communicate, and direct work toward accomplishing an overall technical vision
• Exceptional troubleshooter with the ability to solve problems in a timely manner under pressure
• Verifiable knowledge of the applicable technical systems and functions
• Proven success testing cloud-based applications in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in a service-oriented architecture
• Strong skills in engineering/programming, analytical/diagnostic/troubleshooting, web technology, and programming methodology
• This job operates in a professional office environment
• To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment

Preferred:

• Experience in automating tests for cloud-based applications using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, with a focus on Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) in a service-oriented architecture.
• Experience in testing cloud-native services for performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability, specifically in serverless environments like AWS Lambda, is highly desirable.
• Experience creating/editing Azure Dev Ops pipelines and using testing results as a check point for proceeding.
• Mobile Testing is a plus.