Software Development Engineer in Test

Summary

Trimble has an opening for a Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) Level III position in Mexicali, Mexico. This is an exciting time to join as we grow and bring new features and technologies to our award winning construction collaboration products.

The SDET is responsible for improving the quality of software releases through automation processes and tools enhancements. Working in an agile development environment, the SDET will develop and apply customized testing methodologies to show measurable improvements to the released software. In addition, this person is responsible for automating test cases and workflows to accelerate our testing and release cycles.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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• Implement and maintain automation scripts and test automation framework
• Continuously evaluate and improve defined software processes
• Plan, schedule, and implement testing projects
• Design and develop quality testing procedures; update and modify existing tests as necessary
• Define test objectives and collaborate with the QA Team and other departments to achieve project goals
• Perform moderately complex functional, application, regression, and performance testing
• Define and adhere to quality initiatives
• Provide metrics and results from all testing efforts that will support business decisions related to the quality of the Trimble Projectsight Software
• Recommend and evaluate test automation and performance tools
• Evangelize new automation techniques and best practices to QA team members
• Foundational role establishing a new QA team

• Willingness and ability to quickly adapt and maintain software products and current testing technologies
• Ability to accurately estimate task durations and meet schedules
• Strong initiative, customer-service oriented, and commitment to insure timely, quality solutions to customer issues
• Well-organized, self-directed team player. Remains open to others' ideas, and exhibits willingness to try new things
• Prioritize and plan work activities, use time efficiently and develop realistic action plans
• Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness and monitor own work to ensure quality
• Present information effectively, and is capable of interpreting written technical documentation
• Adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and is able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events
• Strategize and plan improvements in QA processes, tools, and best practices
• Demonstrate professionalism, strong English verbal and written skills, positive attitude, strong work ethic, and good judgment
• Able to thrive in a highly collaborative team work environment

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field plus a minimum of five years relevant experience in software quality assurance or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Prior experience in test automation and scripting in C# or Java
• Strong understanding of QA processes
• Knowledge of cloud and virtualization testing environments and deployment testing
• Strong technical skills with a variety of business software tools
• Experience with QA-related tools for requirements management, test management, and defect tracking

• Prior experience in a global work environment
• Knowledge of performance and security testing tools and techniques
• Familiar with micro service testing techniques
• Working knowledge of Jira and C#
• Knowledge of construction project management