Software Test Engineer II

The Software Test Engineer-II is responsible for developing automated testing strategies and implementing them in industry standard testing frameworks.  The Software Test Engineer provides testing automated testing expertise and oversight and also plays a role in providing advice and guidance and monitoring emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Planning

Understands the challenges that delivery and operations teams face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions.
Recommends improvements to testing processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of testing teams and reduce technical debt.
Automation Development

Owns the testing automation strategy, test data management strategy, and test automation framework architecture.
Develops new or maintains existing test automation frameworks for all applications that automation currently supports.
Writes, debugs and executes code used in automated testing efforts.
Coordinates regression test automation activities across supported applications.
Defines, implements, and manages processes and “best practices” with regard to automated testing.
Establishes processes to continually review and select manual test cases for automation test suites.
Provides metrics on business process and code coverage for automated test suites.
Presents test results to stakeholders.
Partners with feature developers and other automation engineers to build the tools and infrastructure to ensure production code is thoroughly tested to the highest standards.
Application Support

Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
Advice and Guidance

Actively works with less experienced software test engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.
Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new testing technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.
Skills

Ability to:

Manage the strategy, design and execution of business process tests and usability evaluations.
Testing
Determine testing standards and influence others in best practices.
Manage all testing activities.
Manage and communicate all risks associated with the execution of testing as it relates to the quality and predictability of the encompassing program and takes mitigating action when any risks become unacceptable.
Assess and advise on the possibility of testing process alternatives, including automated testing.
Initiate improvements to test processes and contributes to their implementation.
Assess vendor’s capabilities for supporting testing efforts.
Manage stakeholder relationships with respect to all testing matters.
Design and implement test automation frameworks using industry best practices.
Evangelize and implement test frameworks across the software testing teams.
Continue to optimize testing frameworks to meet the needs of the business.
Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications

Essential

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 2 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and up to 2 years’ experience; or 6 years’ experience in a related field
Working experience in software development and/or testing
Working experience in automated testing frameworks, specifically Robot Framework.
Working experience with software test tools and processes, building and testing frameworks, and consumer-facing applications and databases
Working experience with regulatory standards testing processes
Working experience of scripting and configuration tools
Working experience with Selenium.
Working knowledge of delivering products in an engineering, operations, or release role
Working knowledge of development lifecycle methodologies (e.g. waterfall, agile, iterative)
Working knowledge in analysis, design and programming
Desirable

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
Scrum Developers Certification or equivalent
2 – 5 working experience

Drug Testing:

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What’s more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!

About Cox
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Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.

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