Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SSDET)

About the role

Abstra, a nearshore tech talent services company, is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SSDET) to work in a high-energy team that develops and executes automated and manual tests across the software development lifecycle. The position is 100% remote, located in Latin America, with working hours based on US Central-Eastern time. The team focuses on automation and rapid release.

Key responsibilities

• Define test scenarios, acceptance criteria and performance benchmarks from functional and non-functional requirements.
• Guide the team in establishing a testing strategy based on the Test Pyramid.
• Drive innovation through research, prototyping and new testing approaches.
• Create and maintain test documentation, test cases, scripts and reports.
• Build and maintain the test automation suite with production-quality code following SOLID principles and clean code.
• Develop end-to-end test frameworks, suites and tools, and integrate automated tests into the continuous delivery pipeline.
• Run exploratory testing, execute automated tests for functionality, performance and scalability, and monitor results to feed back to developers.
• Identify, triage, document and track bugs in tools such as JIRA and Bugzilla, and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate in an Agile environment, helping with stories, development and manual testing.

Required profile

• Strong experience as a software engineer, SDET, test automation engineer or equivalent, with a testing mindset.
• Strong experience building test frameworks with open-source tools such as Playwright, Selenium or Cucumber.
• Strong experience writing automation scripts in at least one OO language such as C# or Java, and in a scripting language such as Python, PowerShell, Perl or JavaScript.
• Database testing with Sybase, SQL Server or Oracle and knowledge of database schemas.
• Performance testing with BlazeMeter, JMeter and/or Taurus, and API testing frameworks.
• Agile or Scrum experience; understanding of Agile Testing Quadrants, BDD, ATDD and TDD.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.

Nice to have

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems.
• CI tools such as TeamCity or Jenkins, Unix/Linux, cloud-based testing, mobile app automation, CRM and financial services experience.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours and remote work.
• Professional growth opportunities and a collaborative environment.
• Compensation in USD and hardware and software setup.