Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) & SRE - C12 - PUNE

We are looking for a meticulous Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) and System Reliability engineering (SRE) with Quality as Code mindset people to contribute to and review the creation of designs for production software. The SDET's responsibilities include both software development and testing task and focuses on the testability, robustness, and performance of production software. As such, an SDET is a test professional with advanced programming skills who can create automation testing tools and frameworks to assist the manual testing process. To be successful as an SDET, you should have excellent time management and organizational skills as well as strong communication skills. You should have a passion for designing, development, and testing and the ability to upgrade your technical skills within the constantly changing technology sector. A Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) will be responsible for designs, develops, and maintains automated test solutions for software. SDETs combine skills from both developers and testers to perform a variety of tasks, including test automation: designing and implementing test cases, writing code to improve testability, and developing automated test scripts thorough understanding of software development and quality engineering, as well as a variety of testing methodologies and types. You will play a crucial role in quality aspect of the system, quality application development and validating our software releases, ensuring that our products meet exceptional quality standards. With our infrastructure and advanced technologies, you will tackle stimulating and intricate challenges that directly impact the success of our products. Join us in revolutionizing the industry and shaping the future of software development. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping scale testing of the features, driving, and expanding test automation, and spearheading best practices. We encourage bold exploration of interactions and experiments that push innovation and use these learnings to bolster the foundation of best practice reference design patterns that foster a consistent, efficient, and familiar cross-product experience.

A successful candidate will have an established background in quality engendering / SDET, strong technical ability, project management skills, solid communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and have a creative flair for achieving the impossible.

SDET Responsibilities:

• Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.
• Understanding project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.
• Work through all phases of the project lifecycle, including reviewing requirements, designing critical infrastructure and tools, building new interfaces, integrate with existing architectures, developing, and testing code, and delivering seamless implementations for scaling system development.
• Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Web, databased, webservices, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.
• Investigating customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports.
• Handling technical communications and understanding the customers' systems.
• Working with deployments teams, resolving level issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.
• Noting all testing actions you have performed in daily and weekly reports.
• Analyzing and disintegrating software systems and coordinating with other teams to enhance the overall design.
• Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.
• Managing the final quality on production release.
• Implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to measure and improve the reliability of services.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

SDET Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in Software Development Engineer in Test / Quality Engineering / System Reliability Engineering.
• Excellent designing and programming skills with Java with OOP
• Experience with Java Design Pattern / Multi Trading
• Strong experience with Selenium, Restassured, Junit,
• Strong experience with Page object model framework / Model view controller implementation and various locator implementation
• Strong Selenium Grid implementation experience.
• Experience with Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Strong experience with dependency injection like Google Juice.
• Strong experience with Java method changing and fluent interface design.
• Multiple years of experience in software engineering/ Software Development in Test Engineering (SDET) and hands-on development experience
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and Microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL SRE/Quality Engineering 
• Proven experience with automation testing tools (e.g., BDD, Selenium, JMeter, Postman, Cypress).
• Knowledge of programming languages like Java and process management methodology.
• Knowledge of test methodologies and their corresponding tools.
• Exposure to Behavior Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• The ability to keep current with the constantly changing technology industry.
• A passion for testing, development, and design.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to effectively interact with web elements.
• Multiple years of experience on managing software development projects using Agile or Scrum methodologies.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Shell scripting).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to issue resolution.
• Experience in integrating testing artifacts with CI/CD pipeline.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree in computer science, information technology or similar.

Additional Job Experience:

• Experience in implementation of Microservices testing.
• Experience in domain driven design (DDD)
• Experience in behavior driven design (BDD)
• Experience in gherkin syntax / cucumber.
• Experience in Java DSL Implementation / Java Fluent Interface Implementation
• Experience in dependency injection framework.
• Experience in data persistence framework.
• Strong experience in unit test framework

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