Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Fivetran

Fivetran

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Nov 13, 2024

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.


About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with extensive industry experience to define and execute the design, development, and maintenance of Fivetran’s test automation tools and framework using reliable and scalable techniques.

As a Senior SDET, you will focus on solving complex testing difficulties by designing, developing and improving automation and reporting frameworks. You will invest in improving test stability and performance of the framework by developing innovative solutions to boost Fivetran’s testing efficiency. You will also coach Fivetran quality engineers to be the best in class automation engineers, and will continuously work with the team to ensure high standards for automation. The ideal candidate will be highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and focused on achieving results.

This is a full-time position based out of our Bangalore office.

Technologies You’ll Use

  • Java11, JUnit5,
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • AWS, GCP
  • Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured
  • Bazel, BuildKite

What You’ll Do

  • Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
  • Creates and maintains automation Frameworks in Java, making design choices to fulfill engineering needs.
  • Write test plans for complex features and automate those plans to ensure high quality of features.
  • Write Robust automated tests to ensure the smooth execution of the release pipeline
  • Build and share proof of concepts for test automation proposals and ideas.
  • Develop solutions and proposals to lead the automation development strategy and implementation that would help maximize Fivetran product’s quality.
  • Communicate, coordinate and align automation strategy with the engineering team members, make recommendations to improve reliability, best practices and processes.
  • Understand the customer use cases and incidents and come up with test scenarios as needed.
  • Actively engage with fellow engineers to ensure we are adding framework support to add new end-to-end tests that makes product development easier and improves quality.

Skills We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience in the software industry with passion for quality and automation, preferably in Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role.
  • Strong knowledge and experience with OOPs concepts, preferably Java.
  • Expert in identifying test scenarios related to -ve and corner cases and automate them.
  • Experience in understanding the existing test automation frameworks and delivering in improving the framework.
  • Expertise on developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, system tests.
  • Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP,Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.
  • Experience in configuring and monitoring test automation jobs as part of CI/CD pipeline with continuous integration tools like CircleCI/Jenkins.
  • Experience in working on non UI automation frameworks.
  • Knowledge of Database Testing, ETL software testing is an added plus.

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Perks and Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
  • Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
  • RSU stock grants*
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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