TestVagrant - Software Development Engineer - Test/Lead - Functional Testing (7-10 yrs)

Job Description - Lead SDET

Think-tank, Strategist, Influencer, and Innovator

Bangalore :

Do you thrive to help ship awesome software, not just prevent poor software from being released?

At TestVagrant we believe that shipping awesome software requires more than just testing and test automation.

It involves constant improvements to processes, tools, testing techniques, and approaches. It involves collaborating with engineering & business teams, collecting metrics, analysing data, and innovating constantly.

If you're someone who champions & advocates quality, understands risks, and is courageous to drive the change, then this position was made for you!

More about TestVagrant

We are a team of software consultants specializing in test engineering. We partner with our clients in their ambitious digital missions & integrate business, engineering, and technology to deliver quality software faster and safer.

As consultants, our goal is to ship awesome software. By expanding our identities and playing overlapping roles across business, engineering & technology, we bring a deeper and positive impact in amplifying business growth for our clients.

Our engineers have been building and contributing to open-source projects. Ekam.Studio and Optimus are a few to mention. Our thoughts and opinions are reflected in articles, blogs, and books.

Youll spend time on the following :

- You will seamlessly partner with Clients to derive the engagement goals, define testing roadmaps and success criteria of engagement.

- You will establish yourself as a trusted voice with testing strategies, approaches, methods, artefacts, and tools

- You will balance the strategy & execution while keeping the engagement goals and the clients success as the prime focus.

- You would act as a change agent on the ground to bring profound changes, leading the way to transformation

- You will champion system testability and performance. You will strive for quality to be built-in and aspire to shift quality to the left.

- You will be leading the tech heavy lifting in Java and JavaScript stack

- You will define and Advocate best engineering practices.

- Coach & Inspire teams. Define quality-related goals, quality manifesto, processes,and metrics.

- You will identify risks related to people, processes, and delivery.

- Mitigate them in the most effective way.

- You will understand the clients strategy inside out, and improve the partnerships value

Youll also spend time on the following :

- Storytelling and socializing the tech and engineering success stories across communities

- Take initiative and participate in others, that move organization forward, aligning with tech and engineering first culture

- Coach team members to become great consultants

The outcomes of this role include :

The team reports increased confidence in product quality

- Team(s) are adding features with less effort, time, and cost.

- Team reports improved process efficiencies

- Team has solid test assets and infrastructure for releasing software in the fastest manner possible.

To achieve the above, most of the following experience is a must :

- Ability to understand the architecture, code, and tests at all layers and identify risks, and gaps in coverage

- Knowledge of modern design, architectures, scale, and toolings, such as micro-services, mobile

engineering, and container orchestration.

- Experience with Agile & Lean principles and practices, deployment strategies, functional, & non-functional testing, and Solid understanding of best practices such as TDD, BDD, CI, Test Pyramid, and test methodologies

- Ability to assess and measure quality.

- Drive a plan to improve incrementally.

- Ability to setup up the best quality processes & practices

- Proficient in Java, and JavaScript stack including but not limited to Build and CI tools.

- At least 5-8 years of hands-on coding and delivery experience