Software Development Engineer in Test

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About the job

The Platform Services Database Interfaces team is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test with a strong drive to develop and enhance our essential mechanisms for managing application data. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the access layer for the application storage solutions in the SAS Viya Platform using Golang and other technologies as required. In this role, you’ll design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks, tools, and test suites that will empower our team to deliver enterprise-grade software seamlessly and continuously, with quality engineered directly into our delivery pipeline.

Join a talented team committed to advancing our platform services, where innovation and quality are our top priorities. If you're excited to push boundaries, challenge code, and make a meaningful impact in quality engineering, we want to see what you bring to the table. Ready to take on the challenge? Keep reading

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will:

• Create and maintain the highest quality of test automation that fails fast, uses modern development techniques, and provides key data points to support metrics-based decision-making and drive the direction of quality engineering.
• Apply your automated tests at every layer of the application stack, both inside and outside of our continuous delivery pipeline.
• Drive enhancements to test procedures and associated telemetry that elevate the resiliency and robustness of the services under test.
• Maintain an awareness of and research new technologies, trends, architectures, and implementation techniques as they relate to the delivery of applications and integrations in CI/CD.
• Comprehend complex usage concepts and assess applications’ ability to fulfill them.
• Perform functional, integration, and end-to-end testing to verify that product works as intended along with the cross-functional areas like deployment, migration, security, and performance.
• Practice source control management, including code reviews, merging, and branching strategies
• Design, develop, document, and execute manual tests when automated scripts are not available.
• Identify risks, issues, potential defects, or manifested defects in any phase of the project life cycle, managing them through closure.
• Engage in code reviews for product, test, and infrastructure code.
• Work with your product team to promptly triage test failures with precision and accuracy, maintaining the health of the build pipeline.
• Work collaboratively with development, product, operations, and support peers to encourage quality as a key design element in all work efforts.
• Develop and deploy applications leveraging Kubernetes and its core components as well as maintain Dockerfiles for containerized applications.
• Work with event processing and streaming technologies to support real-time data applications.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related quantitative field
• Five years of experience writing software applications, testing software, and/or general programming, including some experience leading projects
• Two years of industry experience and demonstrated advanced proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (Golang / Java preferred)
• Two years of industry experience with web-based microservices, REST interfaces, and OpenAPI 3 specification
• Two years of industry experience and demonstrated deep understanding of at least one modern automation framework (stdlib, spock framework with Groovy DSL are preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to distinguish between testing layers, match the correct approach to each situation, and design effective quality gates based on these layers
• Proficiency working with container platforms and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including the ability to author and maintain Dockerfiles
• Proficiency developing, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure in a public cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Proficiency with version control systems and techniques including branching, code review, and merging (Git and GitHub preferred)
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis for errors and warnings in deployment, migration, upgrade and features

Preferred qualifications

· Proficiency with Windows as well as UNIX

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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