Software Development Engineer in Test

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SKOUT is looking for hands on Automation Engineers on Android and IOS to contribute/improve in their automation framework in order to achieve 100% automation for all features company wide. Senior Automation Engineers have the added responsibility of providing technical leadership. As a senior tester, you are expected to play a significant role in coordinating the team's activities, and to lead new projects and processes that increase the team's effectiveness.

• Design, develop and implement automated tools and test infrastructure
• Contribute to the test strategy & design for an exciting new project
• Participate in ongoing product specification and code reviews
• Translate customer requirements and product goals into appropriate tests
• Create, maintain, and execute test plans and test cases against our hardware and software platforms
• Estimate test efforts
• Analyze and communicate test results
• Defect tracking
• Participate in day-to-day QA activities
• Enhance and extend the automation library and framework
• Add to our company’s performance and scalability testing efforts
• Gain deep understanding of language implementations and the web developer mindset

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Excellent coding skills – Ruby, Python, Perl or Java
• 5+ years of SDET / Development experience
• 5+ years of experience in designing and developing generic test automation framework
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with test planning, test execution and designing, implementing and maintaining high quality test automation
• Unix expertise: using a shell and the file system to maintain an environment and troubleshoot problems
• Excellent knowledge of QA methods and practices.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong JavaScript
• Cucumber/Calabash Knowledge is a plus