Senior Software Engineer - Solutions Testing

As a Sr. Software Engineer on the Productivity Engineering team, you will be

responsible for the development of DevOps and test automation including

environment creation of products and services, end-to-end solutions test

automation that exercises critical customer paths, as well as services and workflows to run within pipelines. 

What is the Vertex Productivity Engineering team?  Our goal is to unleash

innovation and bring operational excellence to software development with

insights, tools, and infrastructure that enables frictionless delivery of features with high bars for quality, security, and reliability. 

On this agile team focused on continuous improvement, you’ll connect the

pathway for applications to be tested in a modern, scalable model that reduces cycle times and increases innovation.  With a comprehensive understanding of software development, you’ll contribute to a common platform, but also have the knowledge of systems and testing for this to fit into the SDLC of cloud

service development. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: 
 
(MUST HAVE) CI/CD pipeline experience with cloud-centric applications across a variety of stacks 

(MUST HAVE) Experience designing, developing, executing, and triaging

end-to-end test automation against cloud-based products 

(MUST HAVE) Development of applications/services in a cloud environment. 

(MUST HAVE) Experience with public cloud providers, preferably AWS 

 
Experience with Kubernetes and CNCF technologies, docker 
 
Development of DevOps tooling used for production code, including both

creation of new services as well as integration and operation of 3rd party.   

Preferred background in structuring test plans and QA models to satisfy

business requirements for software systems.   

Deep understanding of software testing including unit, component, system,

end-to-end, contract, and interoperability, BDD, TDD. 

Must be able to quickly acquire product knowledge, read business scenarios, and transform those into test automation. 

Data-driven with working history of measuring test automation efficacy and efficiency. 

Infrastructure-as-code development including Terraform and Ansible 

Ability to develop applications/services in a language such as Java, .NET, Python, Go 
  

Solid working knowledge of being part of an agile team, with experience in

frequent iterations, improved speed, and resilience to adapt to changing project requirements. 

  
Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills. 
 

Must be results oriented and customer focused. 

  
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 
  

Lead efforts related to the establishment of solutions level test automation,

focused on testing product portfolio for leading SaaS indirect tax software.  This includes the development, execution, and triage of test automation to cover

critical customer paths. 

Analyze a test requirement and deliver the optimal automation which can

include both UI and API to drive product behavior, back-end routines for

establishing configuration, and delivering  appropriate test environment

conditions programmatically. 

Development of shared deployment pipeline services and automation for

delivery of cloud applications through multiple environments, on multiple

stacks include cloud-native Kubernetes as well as AWS EC2 instances 

Develop services and tools to handle the scheduling and orchestration of

automated test suites 

Create cloud and application environment automation (infrastructure-as-code)  

Write and structure documentation, representing designs and user flows visually 

Provide guidance to other team members in the development of services and tools, including code quality and DevOps routines for the development and

release of these services and tools. 

Identify inefficiencies in environment deployments and test automation. 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING: 
 
Bachelor’s degree  in computer science, Information Systems, or related field;

or equivalent combination of education/experience. Master’s degree is a plus. 
 
8 years or more experience of software development with 3 or more years in a Senior, Lead, or Architect type role 
 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 
 
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