Job Title

Software Development Engineer in Test

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

Contributing to the planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team.
Building out test plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed.
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.
Monitoring our results and driving continuous improvement through process changes.
Mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
Contributing to design/code reviews for product and test code.

Required Skills / Experience:
6+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (or similar role).
Engineering / Computer science degree or equivalent experience.
Extensive experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units.
4+ 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, and L10N/I18N.
Moderate 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.
Database familiarity (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.

Desired Demonstratable Experience:
Working knowledge of public cloud, especially AWS.
Experience developing QA Automation tests and frameworks.
Experience testing fault resilient services.
Experience in working with highly scalable and distributed systems.
Understanding of the network protocols like HTTP, SMTP, POP.
Basic understanding of security protocols like HTTPS, SSL / TLS, SSH.

Other Skills:
Experience with Agile Scrum.
Experience working in DevOps and Continuous Delivery model using Jenkins.
Basic understanding of authorization protocols such as OAuth.
Basic Linux administration.
Bash and PowerShell scripting.

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Posted Date
March 11, 2023
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