Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) III

Job Title: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) III
Job Location: Mexicali, Mexico
Our Division: Trimble Construction - Viewpoint

About the Role

Trimble has an opening for a Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) Level III position in Mexicali, Mexico. This is an exciting time to join as we grow and bring new features and technologies to our award winning construction collaboration products.

The SDET is responsible for improving the quality of software releases through automation processes and tools enhancements.  Working in an agile development environment, the SDET will develop and apply customized testing methodologies to show measurable improvements to the released software.  In addition, this person is responsible for automating test cases and workflows to accelerate our testing and release cycles. 

What You Will Do

• Implement and maintain automation scripts and test automation framework

• Continuously evaluate and improve defined software processes

• Plan, schedule, and implement testing projects

• Design and develop quality testing procedures; update and modify existing tests as necessary 

• Define test objectives and collaborate with the QA Team and other departments to achieve project goals

• Perform moderately complex functional, application, regression, and performance testing

• Define and adhere to quality initiatives

• Provide metrics and results from all testing efforts that will support business decisions related to the quality of the Trimble Projectsight Software

• Recommend and evaluate test automation and performance tools

• Evangelize new automation techniques and best practices to QA team members

• Foundational role establishing a new QA team

• Manual testing of new features 

Competencies 

• Willingness and ability to quickly adapt and maintain software products and current testing technologies 

• Ability to accurately estimate task durations and meet schedules 

• Strong initiative, customer-service oriented, and commitment to insure timely, quality solutions to customer issues

• Well-organized, self-directed team player.  Remains open to others’ ideas, and exhibits willingness to try new things 

• Prioritize and plan work activities, use time efficiently and develop realistic action plans 

• Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness and monitor own work to ensure quality

• Present information effectively, and is capable of interpreting written technical documentation 

• Adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and is able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events 

• Strategize and plan improvements in QA processes, tools, and best practices

• Demonstrate professionalism, strong English verbal and written skills, positive attitude, strong work ethic, and good judgment 

• Able to thrive in a highly collaborative team work environment

What Skills & Experience You Should Have

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field plus a minimum of three years relevant experience in software quality assurance or equivalent combination of education and experience 

• QA process and concepts knowledge

• Prior experience in test automation and scripting in C# or Java

• API testing experience

• Use of Appium framework (mobile) 

• Strong understanding of QA processes

• Knowledge of cloud and virtualization testing environments and deployment testing

• Strong technical skills with a variety of business software tools

• Experience with QA-related tools for requirements management, test management, and defect tracking 

• Fluency in English

What Skills & Experience You Could Have

• Prior experience in a global work environment

• Knowledge of performance and security testing tools and techniques

• Familiar with micro service testing techniques

• Working knowledge of Jira

• Knowledge of construction project management

• Android Studio 

• IOS testing 

• Sauce Labs 

• CI/CD 

• Rider 

• XUnit ( testing framework) 

• Firebase Crashlytics 

• Selenium 

About Trimble

Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.  

About Trimble Viewpoint

Focused on connecting critical business functions like accounting and project management with field operations, Viewpoint’s highly collaborative and intuitive cloud-based solutions can be tailored to organizations of any size. Increase accountability, efficiency and profitability with a suite of tools designed to build a better bottom line – and a better project.

About Your Location

The location is at our corporate office in Mexicali, Mexico.  Relocation assistance is provided for qualified candidates.

Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.