Software Development Engineer in Test

Based in Chicago & London, we are a recruitment services business focused on providing a unique service to clients & candidates in the Financial Industry

• As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will work closely with developers, product managers, IT operations, and quality assurance teams to build and execute automated test scripts.
• Our teams work on UI (web, mobile, and desktop) and web service automation.
• We build customized testing tool to meet the project need.
• Our teams also play integral role with other teams on test automation and continuous integration.
• We have several openings for SDET across multiple teams requiring various types of expertise in automated testing.
• These positions are based in our Chicago office.

• Build test automation suites, as well as play a part in maintaining our existing suite of automated tests to be used by development and manual test engineers.
• Analyze user requirements and product architecture to derive testing requirements.
• Build, execute, and debug automated functional and back-end tests.
• Diagnose problems and report bugs and enhancements to Development.
• Ensure efficient and stable builds in contentious integration environment.
• Work with development and functional QA teams to make decisions around what to automate.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent plus a minimum of 2.5 years of working experience in a related field.
• Strong experience with OO programming and concepts.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of software quality assurance practice.
• Ability to mentor junior members of the test automation team including those in our overseas locations.
• Hands on experience in Java, C#, JUnit/TestNG, Jenkins, Selenium, FitNesse, SoapUI, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Maven, one or two scripting languages Groovy, Python, Ruby, Git are required
• Experience with test automation tools as well as deployment tools, like uDeploy.
• Experience in TDD, continuous integration, and code review practice is strongly desired.
• Strong awareness of activities in the open source world and contributing back to open source is a big plus