IT, Systems Engineering Group & Solution Delivery Group, Lead Software Dev Engineer Test, GG11-12

Job Summary 

Manage and execute strategies for integrating testing, development and design principles through every phase of the system development life cycle (SDLC) process. The role is proficient in creating test automation frameworks and tools while also utilizing manual testing techniques as needed, following the identified best practices.

Responsibilities 

• Write and edit, automated test code, that allows for repeatable, reliable testing solutions to test the wide functionality of products and software. 

• Participates in Software Architectural Design at the ART level. 

• Generate and implement improvements for automated testing framework, tools and dashboards 

• Leads the planning and documenting complex test strategies and acceptance criteria based on customer needs 

• Monitor complex test execution (new builds and regression), test suite grooming, analyze the reports, troubleshoot & investigate the failures. Performs peer reviews of automation codebase. 

• Investigate, diagnose and repair complex problems, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports. 

• Understanding the business processes at the ART level to lead the innovation and improvement of the testing process to gain efficiencies. 

Requirements 

Collaboration: Willingness to work with others to find solutions to problems, create or produce something. This includes recognizing others strengths and weaknesses, taking responsibility for mistakes, giving credit for others contributions and listening to other members concerns.

Communication/Presentation: Ability to express oneself to provide information to others effectively, recognizing that communication is more than just language - it includes tone, style and structure. Knowledge of and ability to effectively navigate formal and informal communication and decision-making channels. 

Agile Practices: Discovering requirements and developing business valued solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer/end user. 

DevSecOps, CI/CD: Responsibility for security, ensuring it is fully integrated into every stage of the development journey, continually delivering security throughout the software development process. Knowledge of continuous integration and continue delivery practices. 

Collaboration Tools: Work with applicable collaboration tools that drive an E2E delivery of product through persistent teams.

Product/Business/Industry Knowledge:  Knowledge, insight, and understanding of industry, business products, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound  decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. 

Customer Experience: Understanding how a customer interacts with the product over the course of the relationship. 

Applicable Development Language: Ability to design and write programs for a variety of applications and platforms in the language appropriate to the need, includes front-end and back end development languages.

Cloud Native Technologies: Knowledge of and experience with the concept of building and running applications to take advantage of the distributed computing offered by the cloud delivery model.

Applicable Development Language : Ability to design and write programs for a variety of applications and platforms in the language appropriate to the need, includes front-end and back end development languages.

Database Development tools: Knowledge of tools and facilities for developing and populating application databases. 

Secure design and coding practices: Knowledge and ability to apply secure coding standards used to prevent security vulnerabilities. Proactively detect and eliminate errors that could compromise software security. 

Writing & executing automated tests: Knowledge of activities, tasks, tools and techniques for automating testing applications to ensure adherence to functional and quality requirements. 

Integration and Testing tools: (e.g. Docker, Selenium Grid, Jenkins, Lettuce, Cucumber) , Knowledge of a variety of specific testing tools and toolkits.

System and Technology Integration: Knowledge of features and facilities for integration and communication among applications, data bases and technology platform.

Code testing, evaluation and peer review: Ability to design, plan and execute application testing strategies and tactics to ensure software quality at all stages of application development. 

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of and ability to investigate, troubleshoot, resolve and prevent the recurrence of incidents that interfere with the normal delivery of IT services. 

Technology Stack & Other Requirements 

• Java, Docker & Container 

• Azure Cloud Native Services 

• Testing Tools like Selenium, Aplitools, etc… 

• Rest APIs/Microservices architecture & security patterns 

• Japanese language 

• Scrum knowledge 

• Basic Project management skills 

• Automated Testing 

Language

English: Advanced

Japanese: Intermediate