Senior SDET (QA Architect)

About the nerdAppLabs

nerdAppLabs Software Solution Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2012, since then We have helped many companies to build and support their products with SugarCRM, Fledge, FogLAMP, MyMap, OptTown in different domains.

nerdAppLabs is helping to build the leading Commercial Open Source Industrial IoT & Edge ML Platform for Industrial Data Pipelines, Insights and Actions. Come help us to make things happen!. We have cool technology, a great team and a big mission. And IoT+ML is a really fun space.

nerdAppLabs is looking for people who are excited about technology and the fastest growing, innovative field of IioT and ML/AI. We are a company of motivated team players driving accelerated growth in a supportive, positive culture. We celebrate a diversity of people, ideas, and backgrounds that contribute to one shared community. We believe the future belongs to those who think, build and deliver.

We are an engineering partner company to Dianomic Systems; and focused/helping to build Open source under Linux foundation & Commercial IIoT products for IT/OT integration with intelligence.

You can see more details on products, at https://dianomic.com/products/

If you will go through our website http://nerdapplabs.com, you will find references to https://www.lfedge.org/projects/fledge/ (including our old projects/clients)

The open-source project code and docs are available publicly.

Our technology stack is C++, Golang, Python, Angular, SQLite/Postgres, Linux, DevOps with AWS and Cloud integrations to Aveva/GCP/Azure.

Job Description for SDET

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a strong background in Performance Engineering & Testing to join our dynamic and innovative team.

Responsibilities:

1. Performance Engineering & Testing:

- Collaborate with the development team to understand system architecture and performance requirements.

- Design, develop, and execute performance tests to evaluate system scalability, responsiveness, and stability.

- Identify performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and suggest optimizations to improve application performance.

- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators during test execution to ensure accurate and reliable results.

2. System Tests Development:

- Create and maintain automated system tests using Python and bash scripts.

- Build comprehensive test suites covering various scenarios to validate the functionality and reliability of the software.

- Work closely with developers and product managers to define test cases and acceptance criteria.

3. Memory and CPU Analysis:

- Utilize specialized tools and techniques to perform memory and CPU profiling during testing and identify potential memory leaks and CPU utilization issues.

- Provide analysis and recommendations for memory management and performance optimizations.

4. Log Analysis and Reporting:

- Develop scripts to parse and analyze log files generated during testing to identify errors, warnings, and performance-related issues.

- Generate comprehensive reports detailing test results, performance metrics, and actionable insights.

5. Tooling and Infrastructure:

- Continuously enhance and maintain the test automation framework, tools, and infrastructure to improve testing efficiency and accuracy.

Additional Responsibilities:

6. Pull Request Review:

- Participate actively in code review for pull requests, specifically focusing on testability and test coverage.

- Identify potential issues or gaps in test coverage and provide constructive feedback to developers to ensure robust testing.

7. Regression Testing:

- Develop and maintain regression test suites to ensure that new code changes do not introduce regressions or break existing functionality.

- Continuously update regression test suites to accommodate new features and changes.

8. Test Coverage:

- Collaborate with developers and product managers to define test coverage requirements for new features and enhancements.

- Work towards achieving and maintaining high test coverage for critical components and features of the application.

9. Set up and configure monitoring tools and frameworks to track key performance metrics, system health, and user experience.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- Proven experience as an SDET with a focus on Performance Engineering & Testing.

- Proficient in Python and bash scripting for test automation and system-level testing.

- Solid understanding of performance testing methodologies and tools

- Familiarity with memory and CPU profiling tools (e.g., Valgrind, perf, pprof).

- Experience in log analysis and familiarity with cURL and various CLI tools.

- Basic understanding of Python pip, apt/yum dpkg/rpm package management

- Basic understanding of Make & CMake tools

- Basic hands-on with containerization and docker

- Strong analytical skills to identify performance bottlenecks and propose optimizations.

- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration (CI) pipelines.

- Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a team environment.

- Experience in conducting pull request reviews and providing valuable feedback on testability and test coverage.

- Proficiency in writing regression tests and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.

- Knowledge of test management and bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira) is required.

Join our team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge software products by ensuring their performance, stability, and reliability through rigorous testing and performance analysis. If you are passionate about quality and performance and have a track record of delivering high-quality software, we'd love to hear from you!

^ Kindly note that If your primary expertise is UI automation/front-end testing, then please don't apply for this job.

We are looking for the people having 5Y+ experience with backend testing skills with a deep hands-on of setup & testing for performance, preparing benchmarking reports, finding bottlenecks, repro with Bash/Shell and/or Python scripting on Cloud instances in AWS, GCP and/or Azure; You should be comfortable to work with Linux machines in day to day usage and writing automation test using Python & Bash, Raw SQL for database integration; analyzing system logs and memory/CPU.

Good English communication and documentation skills are a must for this job.

Work Perks Worth The Hype:

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance coverage (5 Lacs for self and family)
• Work Life Integration
• Smart people with strong academic background & technical skills