Senior Software Test Engineer

Company:
Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group:
Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile:
Sr Software Test Engineer

Management Level:
Individual Contributor

Travel %:
No

Work Shift:
Day (United States of America)

**Job Description**:
The Registration and Title team at Cox Automotive has an open position for a Senior Software Test Engineer. We help users transact by providing secure, reliable, and straightforward ways to manage the entire life cycle of vehicle registration. We take pride in the quality we deliver. We respect opinions and love discussions that help converge a divergent set of views in the best interests of our customers. We do the right thing - always

Technology is an important consideration for sure, but it is “a” consideration. We are solution focused - solving the problem for our customers and solving it securely and sustainably.

About the Position:
As a Senior Test Engineer, you will play a key role in the following areas:

- Defining your scrum team’s quality and repeatable delivery.
- Understanding and embracing the technical direction and plan your own work to meet given objectives and milestones.
- Coaching and guiding scrum team members on testing best practices and leading them to produce high-quality unit tests and high-quality software.
- Investigating, defining and resolving complex issues, exercising substantial personal responsibility and autonomy.
- Driving continuous improvement within your scrum team and make decisions that influence the success of projects and team objectives.

What we are looking for:
**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years experience OR MS w/ 2+ years experience.

People Skills:

- Embraces and thrives with change (does not mean chaos).
- Values spending time with other engineers, guiding them in their journey towards becoming well-rounded engineers including, at times, understanding personal motivations and challenges and helping them overcome mental barriers to become fearless coders who take pride in their work.

Technology Skills:

- While our QAA stack is primarily JavaScript, Typescript, and MYSQL, unit tests in Java or other languages should not be a barrier to, at minimum, understanding and code reviews.
- Experience in creating API automated and manual tests and test cases.
- Experience in creating UI automated and manual tests and test cases.
- Experience in creating performance tests and test cases is a plus.
- Experience in test verification with SQL tools.

Process:

- Puts a premium on quality code.
- Embraces the spirit of agile, iterative value delivery.
- Puts a premium on repeatable tests to ensure quality.
- Questions status quo and strives for continuous improvements.
- Uses a combination of technology, process, and people skills to help teams solve problems.
- Security is never an afterthought; you consider non-functional requirements at every step.
- Works with the leads and teams to figure out an optimal test plan, considering the design, implementation, and what was covered in unit and integration tests then figure out the test plan.
- Collaborate across teams to document and keep the test plans up to date as changes happen.
- Identify gaps in test plans by reviewing product functionality, and defects being discovered and collaborating with the team to improve quality either by modifying unit/integration tests or by adding manual/automated functional tests.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the Company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment background check and drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently consider a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

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