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