Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Grade Level (for internal use): 10

Job Title: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

The Team: Spark Assist is S&P Global's internal conversation AI platform designed to support team members across the organization. The team operates within an Agile framework and is distributed globally. The team is self-driven and dedicated to the continuous enhancement of Gen AI experience for organization, enabling teams to automate their workflows through Gen AI.

The Impact: As a Senior SDET, you will make a key contribution in building solutions to test Gen AI applications across Web/Mobile/API platforms. Your challenge will be reducing the "time to market" for products without compromising quality, by leveraging automation and innovation. You will use a wide range of technologies and have an opportunity to interact with internal teams for providing GenAI solutions.

What's in it for you:

• Working with a team of highly skilled, ambitious and result-oriented professionals.
• Using a wide range of cutting-edge technology to innovate while testing.
• A great opportunity to think and execute like a developer while performing the role of QA.
• Being a part of an organization which values 'Culture of Urgency' and 'Shift Left' approaches.
• A plenty of skill building, knowledge sharing, and innovation opportunities.
• Building a fulfilling career with a global financial technology company.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automation solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable and maintainable automated regression suites & test harnesses.
• Create tools and frameworks with quality code to simplify testing scenarios.
• Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams.
• Work in partnership with the development team to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria.
• Review and approve the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results and defect descriptions. Ensures best practices are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
• Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database testing requirements.
• Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment.
• Involved in requirements review and participate in architecture/design reviews with an emphasis on test automation strategy and ensuring best practices.
• Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities.
• Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions.
• Estimate and perform risk analysis for quality delivery.

What We're Looking For:

• 4-6+ years of experience in software testing or development with good understanding of testing, coding and debugging procedures.
• Experience in programming using Python/C#/Java or other languages.
• Experience in gray box and white box testing.
• Experience in design and development of automated tests using automation tools (e.g. Selenium, REST Assured, Appium, CaFe) across the application layers (UI/Service/Data layers) and root cause analysis.
• Experience in advising team to identify automatable test cases at different layers (UI, Services and Data layer tests). Ability to work with developers to build automation friendly code is highly desirable.
• Experience in refactoring and extending test automation frameworks and suites as necessary.
• Experience of working with SOAP and REST service and understanding of SOA architecture.
• Exposure to distributed source control systems such as Git.
• Exposure to SQL/PL-SQL, writing SQL queries, stored procedures and RDBMS.
• Experience of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices and experience in Agile methodology is a plus.
• Experience of testing in CI, DevOps, rolling deployment/upgrade model.
• Experience with Test Data Management and mapping automated test code coverage.
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases, engage in Exploratory Testing, creating and maintaining Defect Reports.
• Demonstrate ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong communication skills and ability to deliver clear, concise documentation and presentations.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Bachelor's or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience in security testing tools is a plus.
• Experience of testing micro-services is a plus.

Equal Opportunity Employer: S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.