Sr SDET (Harsha)

Job Title: Senior SDET
Duration: 10 Months
Location: Austin, TX

Our Opportunity: 
 
Client is recruiting a driven, results-oriented software technical lead who shares our passion for technology, innovation and excellence. Our main goal is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests.
 
This position will be part of Digital Utilities Technology team at client, and we will focus on driving client-centricity, reducing time to market & increasing efficiency. The model is insights-driven and focuses on rapid iterations to drive innovation and transformation. Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more integrated client-centric experiences, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.
 
What you’ll do:
 

• Provide hands-on development and mentoring as necessary for all members of the team to ensure team and project success.
• Interface with Product Owner, Tech Leads, Architects, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget.
• Self-driven individual contributor; provide efficiently organized and designed logic; be highly motivated and well versed in developing robust easily maintainable applications.
• Prototype, validate and create specific application solutions for the business.
• Lead team in execution of development pipeline and delivery of the organization’s software products to QA, and ultimately to Production.
• Identify technology risks and dependencies early to establish mitigation plans.
• Create artifacts for each project such as Software Architecture documentation, Technical Use Cases, and Code Review Packages.
• Meet periodically with onshore and offshore developers to review and improve code quality, requirements specification and design methodologies.
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve software quality standards
• Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems
• Support release manager to assemble releases and drive improvements in the release process

What you have:
 
Required:

• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience in application development using C#/.Net
• Strong experience designing and implementing REST based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment
• Strong experience in building enterprise scale web applications using UI/UX frameworks such as Angular or React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript and similar technologies
• Solid understanding and working knowledge on queuing technologies like Rabbit MQ or streaming solutions like Kafka
• Solid hands-on experience in relational databases like SQL Server or document databases like Mongo
• Very experienced with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) concepts, unit testing principles and implementations, API test automation techniques as well as automated deployment pipeline tools
• Good understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards, Guidelines and SOLID principles
• You should be comfortable in a fast-paced customer focused environment that continually embraces the latest technologies and techniques.
• Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical presentations or other forms of documentation to various level of technical and non-technical management

Preferred:

• Local to Austin and be able to commute to work 3 days a week
• Experience in developing applications using modern streaming technologies (like Kafka) and protocols
• Independently plans own work and are accountable to meet schedules and deliverables
• Experience providing guidance, direction, and feedback to other technical staff to meet agreed upon objectives
• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment

Nice to have:
 

• Experience in public cloud platforms like GCP
• Experience in PostGreSQL

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $80.00/hr.