Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test

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Software Engineering

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Salesforce Commerce Cloud is the global leader of Cloud based (SaaS) E-Commerce solutions that enable the world’s premier retailers to maintain a robust online shopping presence. Commerce Cloud provides a highly scalable, integrated cloud platform that allows our clients to rapidly launch and manage multiple e-commerce stores, initiate unique marketing campaigns, and drive customer traffic across a global footprint.


You will have a significant impact on the success of the Commerce Cloud as a Software Engineer in Test (SDET) on our Quality Engineering team. We are looking for a senior Quality engineer (SMTS) to help us build the next generation of products. You will be working with some of the best Quality Engineers (Q3s) in Salesforce and will join a high-functioning team responsible for E2E testing and automating a platform that serves ~250 million unique visitors per month from around the world. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background and the ability to understand highly complex architectures, raise the bar on team technical discussions and reviews, and independently deliver innovative solutions to unique problems. A strong requirement for this role is technical breadth and the ability to learn new technologies quickly. Deep knowledge of automation, continuous delivery, engineering tools and testing is ideal.

Responsibilities:

 

• Help build our automation tech foundation that will allow engineering teams to build, execute, and monitor various different types of tests across the testing pyramid. (#shiftleft)
• Design and deliver automation as necessary with a quality mindset across the organization.
• Consult with Engineering teams as necessary to address systemic quality gaps.
• Organize and drive cross-product testing prior to major releases.
• Monitor product and/or feature-level quality health metrics (testability, test health, test coverage, etc.)
• Work closely with senior developers, PM, and UX to ensure features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements.
• Support existing path to production pipelines, test environments, and tools
• Do the right thing, always, for our customers
   

Qualifications:

 

• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Experience delivering SaaS applications at scale.
• Experience with some of the following quality tools: Serenity BDD, Selenium, GitHub, Postman, Swagger, Spinnaker, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience building modern CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and Spinnaker
• Experience with testing in production techniques and technologies (traffic shaping, canary analysis, synthetics)
• Good understanding of release management activities and methodologies
• Good understanding of testing methodologies incl. performance testing
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to effectively present complex and technical topics to an audience
• Proven success working collaboratively with cross-functional, globally dispersed, and diverse teams
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Ability to work out of the Burlington, MA office 10 times per quarter.
   

Nice-to-have:

 

• Prior commerce platform domain experience
• Familiarity with observability tools (Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, Datadog) and reporting
• Experience building and operating test automation tools (backend/frontend) and frameworks

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