Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform, Atlas delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise.

Our Identity Security Cloud team is looking for a well-rounded Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a focus on backend-end development. A successful Senior SDET should have excellent troubleshooting skills, experience writing automation tests, creating extensive test cases, and be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards. We are looking for someone capable of driving several projects to completion from a QA perspective and a skilled technician that can also serve as a mentor to the team.

Responsibilities include designing automation testing best practices, quality standards & processes, manual testing of backend applications, assisting engineers in creation of automation tests, and maintaining healthy automation testing pipelines. We are looking for a visionary that delivers recommendations on how to evolve testing best practices within the organization that solve today’s problems with the future direction of product testing in mind.

Requirements or things you will learn on the job:

• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering and experience in developing test automation framework
• Proficient in Java or GoLang and testing frameworks such as Junit, TestNG, Mockito
• Experience in TypeScript / JavaScript preferred
• Proficient in writing test cases for verification of web applications
• Experience writing Contract tests with tools like Pact, Postman, Cypress
• Experience with testing REST APIs in a microservice environment
• Experience with AWS and testing SaaS applications
• Familiarity with SQL and NonSQL data stores
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog
• Familiarity with setting up Synthetic monitoring or similar means of simulating user behavior on live services
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Cloudbees and CI/CD workflows
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience planning and executing multi-sprint tasks with experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Strong Communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter, Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

What success looks like in the role:

Within the first 30 days you will:

• Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology
• Proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your test and development environment
• Familiarize with the test framework codes and understand how the automated tests run
• Familiarize with the SailPoint SDLC and development tools and processes

By 90 days:

• Assist in the maintenance of testing environments
• Collaborate with backend engineers and engineering managers to develop best practices for automation testing
• Monitor and analyze quality performance and the health of our automation testing pipeline
• Assist developers with testing issues and improving the team’s knowledge in automation testing
• Develop, promote, and maintain quality standards and quality control systems.
• Assist in manual verification of full feature testing and ensuring quality across all supported devices

By 6 months:

• Proactively help improve quality methodologies within the organization to increase efficiency and work with other QA resources to form best practices for how to test our products
• Assist in optimizing workflows and processes used in our CI/CD pipelines
• Consistently lead code/design reviews & presentation
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

By 1 year:

• Act as the subject matter expert in ISC quality
• Coach and mentor to other junior engineers on the team
• Influence beyond engineering occasionally, with other internal groups or customers
• Participate in planning sessions to gain knowledge of how to best create test plans for solutions designed
• Suggest technologies that could help improve ISC quality