Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

About the role

Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

The Browser Technology Team (BTG) develops cutting-edge technology to make users more productive through an enhanced, more secure web browser experience.

What’s in it for you

As a member of the Browser Technology team you will work cross-functionally to build and scale the next secure web browser experience for users. You will be solving challenging problems in distributed systems at large scale: performance and scalability, high availability, monitoring, visibility and analytics. You will also be exposed to advanced Web technologies, such as Chromium, and highly distributed network features. We are looking for a software engineer who is passionate about testing and motivated to create impactful developer experiences. We’re looking for engineers who love to write code to test, have the aptitude to find ways to break things, understand how cloud services should work, and can build automation for day-to-day tasks that machines can run.

What you will be doing

• Reviewing product specifications and writing test cases, developing test plans for assigned areas in the Engineering team for Browser Technology
• Developing expertise in our cloud security solutions, and using that expertise and your experience to help design and qualify the solution as a whole
• Contributing to building a flexible and scalable automation solution by designing test plans with clear separation of functional, integration, regression, and exploratory tests to ensure application quality.
• Building state of the art tools to improve the testing process.
• Working closely with the development and design teams to help create an amazing user experience
• Helping to create and implement quality processes and requirements
• Working closely with the team to replicate customer environments
• Identifying and communicating risks about our releases. Looking beyond your specific area of responsibility and ensuring our solutions deliver value to our customers
• Owning and making quality decisions for the solution.
• Owning the release and being a customer advocate.

Required skills and experience

• 10+ years of experience in the field of SDET and a track record showing that you are highly motivated and capable of coming up with creative, innovative, and working solutions in a collaborative environment.
• Strong Python, C++, Go or Javascript programming skills
• Experience working with Web Engines and modern browsers is a huge bonus
• Experience testing distributed systems
• A proponent of Strong Quality Engineering methodology
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux systems
• Experience building automation frameworks
• Knowledge of Web languages such as HTML5, CCS3 and Javascript
• Knowledge of CI/CD using Jenkins or Drone
• Comfortable with ambiguity and taking the initiative regarding issues and decisions
• An energetic self-starter with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, as well as the ability to wear multiple hats.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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