Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Overview:
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At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.

**Responsibilities**:
**Who **are **you**?**

You are a talented, motivated Software Development Engineer in Test who can perform testing and quality assurance for our growing engineering team. You will be responsible for creating and implementing automation tests to ensure quality and expected functionality. You seek to work with others to best understand business requirements to develop corresponding test plans, test cases and test data, as well as execute manual testing scenarios when appropriate. Focus, enthusiasm, a dedication to excellence and constant desire to learn are all personal characteristics you possess which are highly valued in the VP organization.

**In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following**:

- Develop new manual & automation tests and contribute to continuous delivery, testing and deployment
- Develop and maintain a current and thorough understanding of existing Health system design, architecture, and business logic.
- Work with affected Business and user areas to develop and document detailed test suites using our behavior driven development model.
- Provide project management with software testing effort estimates for project planning and scheduling purposes.
- Thoroughly analyze test execution results to ensure that the work products comply with approved design and documented requirements
- Report all defects discovered using defined defect reporting processes.
- Actively participates in requirements and design reviews, release readiness reviews and other inspections.
- Participate in the coordination and monitoring of software development activities including all related meetings, walkthroughs, technical reviews, testing, and problem resolution.
- Assist in the gathering and analyzing of testing metrics and suggests process improvements to improve the software development and testing processes including performance testing and monitoring.
- Coordinate with business stakeholders and escalate issues as needed.
- Provide ongoing process improvement and efficiency metrics for the department.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis
- Escalate critical issues at the appropriate time, and help identify solutions and mitigation options
- Collaborate with the team to ensure high level of quality deliverables and client satisfaction
- Experience in Automation Testing
- You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in._

Qualifications:
**What you bring to the **Virgin Pulse** **team**:
**In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including**:

- Passion for Quality
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math or Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5 or more years of SDET/Automation experience
- Experience using automation testing tools and techniques
- Experience with formal testing processes
- Test case and test scenario writing; both manual and automation
- Experience working with scripting languages and APIs
- Database Knowledge
Experience with and thorough understanding of formal defect management processes
- Participate in Test Cases and Test Strategy review process
- Identify ensuring data integrity throughout the process
- Proactive identity test gaps, quality risk and process failures
- Provide overall system knowledge, particularly around inter-dependencies
- Ability to work well with other teams to resolve issues and defects
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
**You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics**:

- Experience with one or more of the following tools: Rally, Jira or equivalent, Confluence, Jenkins
- Show an ability to learn and solve issues in a timely manner - currently using languages Java, Kotlin, Cucumber, and Selenium for test development.#LI-REMOTE & INDIVIDUAL HASHTAGS HERE **_remove if not needed_**

**Our technology sets us apart**

You’ll be working on a platform that serves:

- Several million users with nearly 50% use daily
- 75 billion API calls and transactions a year spread across 35 services
- An engaging native mobile platform driving 85% of user traffic
- Hundreds of terabytes of data spread across multiple transactional and analytical stores

Engineers at Virgin Pulse work in small autonomous teams of techn