SDET- Hybrid Cary, NC
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About the job
The Compute division within the R&D organization is hiring a SDET. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and test suites to ensure quality within expected timelines during the development cycle. In addition, you will create automated test scripts that will be executed within the test framework.
As a SDET, you will:
- Be involved in all steps of the development lifecycle, including design, development, and testing
- Design and implement automated test frameworks, tools, and scripts that address specific needs
- Design of test plans (cases, scenarios, usage); Create test strategies, approaches, test scenarios and test ideas with clear intent
- Maintain an awareness of and research new technologies, trends, architectures, and implementation techniques as they relate to the delivery of applications, integrations, and data in CI/CD
- Comprehend complex usage concepts and assess applications ability to fulfill them
- Design, develop, document, and execute manual tests when automated scripts are not available
- Automate tests, analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective action.
- Maintain and enhance existing automated test suites
- Perform peer code review
- Identify risks, issues, potential defects, or defects in any phase of the project lifecycle, managing them through closure
- Demonstrate aptitude for problem solving and debugging of complex software systems; ability to develop creative solutions to complex technical problems
- Communicate accurate status, risks, and perform other duties as may be assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related quantitative field
- Five years of experience developing software applications, testing software and developing automated tests
- Experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts or frameworks for APIs, web applications, or similar
- Hands on experience testing REST APIs
- Solid debugging skills
- Installing and testing multi-tier software applications exposure
- Proficiency in programming languages, such as Python and Go, but particularly Python
- Experience with CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline
- Exposure to automated CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions
- Experience working with container platforms and technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Experience working in an agile software development environment and fluency with SCRUM, Kanban, Retrospectives, and other agile processes that enable a rapidly changing environment
- Experience with bug management and source control systems such as Jira and Git.
- Strong understanding of software development practices (source control, branching, code reviews).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SAS programming
- Cloud Computing Platform exposure with one or more of the following: MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform or AWS
- Ability to understand complex logic / design between clients / servers
World-Class Benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include...
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
Diverse and Inclusive
At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.
Additional Information:
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.
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