Senior SDET Consultant

***Local candidates only interviews will be in person

Location: Chicago IL 60661

***Hybrid onsite 3 days/week

Duration: 12 months

Client: Caterpillar

IT Software Engineer

The main function of a software engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design development testing and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work. A typical software engineer researches designs develops and tests operating systems-level software compilers and network distribution software for medical industrial military communications aerospace business scientific and general computing applications.

Responsibilities:

- Review and approve the modification of existing databases and database management systems.

- Instruct staff to write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system.

- Direct database development and approve project scope and limitations.

- Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.

- Plan coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage modification or disclosure.

- Approve schedule plan and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems.

- Develop standards and guidelines to guide the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.

Skills:

- Verbal and written communication skills problem solving skills customer service and interpersonal skills.

- Expert ability to work independently and manage ones time.

- Expert mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.

- Expert knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring to development testing and delivery.

- Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.

- Expert knowledge of computer hardware and software.

- Knowledge of computer development software as it relates to systems such as SQL VisualBasic etc.

Education/Experience:

- Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering or relevant field required.

- 10 years experience required.

Positions Contributions to Work Group:

- AKA Senior SDET Extend testing automation framework using JAVA/JAVA Script

- Take ownership in understanding business requirements/ACs and develop test strategy/test plan

- Develop automation testcases using existing automation framework

Reason/motivation for request:

- New headcount

Typical task breakdown:

- Develop test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Delivery (CD) of systems infrastructure and test framework.

- Plan design develop and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting execution and analysis of results

- Provide technical leadership and mentoring for test engineers on multiple applications/projects onshore and offshore; train and mentor project team members to create execute analyze and maintain automated regression suites

- Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed

- Develop automated functional scripts using tools such as Java Karate JMeter.

- Perform exploratory and manual testing of the product suite as appropriate

- Provide expertise in testing methodologies best practices and standards

- Position will be onsite hybrid starting day 1. Interviews may also be onsite

Interaction with team:

- Working with team; team consists of 20 folks

Work environment:

- Chicago Office: Chicago IL 60661

Education & Experience Required:

- Years of experience: 8-10 yrs experience

- Degree requirement: Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience

Required Technical Skills

- Strong design and development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java (3-5 years) Cucumber(3-5 years) JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks

- At least 8 years of test automation framework design

- Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs) (35 years)

- Proven experience developing test scripts test cases and test data

- The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases