Job Title

Principal Software Development Engineer in Test

Company Name
Mimecast India Pvt Ltd
Job Type
Full-time
Qualification
B.Tech/B.E.
Experience
10 Years
Vacancies
1
Salary Offered
Not Disclosed
Job Category
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Description

Providing technical leadership and coaching/mentoring other engineers on the team to deliver testing for large projects and/or ongoing product efforts
Taking initiative to drive continuous improvement through monitoring and driving process/tooling changes
Building out test plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed
Contributing to the planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team
Refining acceptance criteria into testable units and converting those into automated tests that execute efficiently and reliably
Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and ensuring successful automation as part of our standard build process
Occasional manual testing when automation is not an option
Reporting, reproducing, and helping development resolve defects – emphasis on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and prevention of similar issues in the future
Contributing to design/code reviews for product and test code

What You’ll Bring:
Engineering / Computer science degree or equivalent experience
Extensive experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units
6+ years of significant test automation work, validating both back-end and front-end interfaces in at least one high-level object-oriented language, including:
Extensive experience automating business logic in the services layer (RESTful API, SDK, or CLI, as appropriate)
Proficiency in validating contract, functionality, correctness, and performance of REST API endpoints
Familiarity with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jasmine, or equivalent
Clear understanding of how to manage risk through negative testing, boundary/limits testing, load/soak testing, and other test aspects as appropriate, including system integration, performance/scale, security
Solid object-oriented programming skills and experience automating in Java or similar
Substantial experience in validation of UI-functionality and rendering, End-to-End testing, and UAT scenarios
Extensive knowledge of Cypress with demonstratable experience in Protractor / Selenium
Knowledge of Web Browsers, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, JSON, XML, integration with APIs, web servers
Great knowledge of testing design patterns - for example, the Page Object Model
4+ years of experience as a technical leader of test projects and test teams
Top notch coding skills, provision at conducting effective code reviews and coaching the team to raise their coding proficiency
Extensive experience with CI/CD and Continuous Delivery model using Jenkins (or similar)
Working knowledge of public cloud, especially AWS, and how to execute testing in an efficient, cost-effective manner in that environment
Experience delivering testing in Agile projects with continuous testing model
Solid DB understanding (types, schemas, SQL queries, basic operations) and ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests
Experience with multithreading, concurrency, SaaS, and multi-tenant architectures
Proven ability to integrate with and automate using third party APIs (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc)
Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Office365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server

Additional Desired Experience:
Working knowledge of public cloud, especially AWS
Experience testing fault resilient services
Experience in working with highly scalable and distributed systems
Experience testing email- and/or security-focused products
Understanding of the network protocols like HTTP, SMTP, POP
Basic understanding of security protocols like HTTPS, SSL / TLS, SSH
Experience with Agile Scrum
Basic understanding of authorization protocols such as OAuth
Experience in deep diving into logs, code and other elements to understand and solve problems

Key Skills

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Posted Date
February 29, 2024
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