Principal Quality Engineer - SDET

Strength in Trust  OneTrust is the trust intelligence cloud platform organizations use to transform trust from an abstract concept into a measurable competitive advantage. Organizations globally use OneTrust to enable the responsible use of data while protecting the privacy rights of individuals, implement and report on their cyber security program, make their social impact goals a reality, and create a speak up culture of trust. Over 14,000 customers use OneTrust's technology, including half of the Global 2,000. OneTrust currently ranks #24 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list of top private cloud companies in the world and employs over 2,000 people in regions across North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The Challenge  This is a hands-on role which builds automation scripts for long term product scalability and stability. In this role, the resource is closely working with the product team to understand the functionality being developed and writes robust automation scripts and performance scripts to meet the acceptance criteria.    As the resource matures in understanding the breadth and depth of product functionality, the resource should be able to bring in critical thinking to ask the “what if” questions to strengthen the tests.   The role evaluates continuous improvement by improving the effectiveness of the automated tests   This role understands customer use cases and usage models in production to begin incorporating the right tests in the release pipeline   This role begins to understand the dependency models and makes informed decisions to test intelligently   This role begins active engagement in a devops mindset toward rapid deployments and anchors the product scrum team to meet quality deliverables.   Your Mission  Participate in daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, and sprint demos   Understand and translate manual test cases into automated tests within the development sprints   Execute and maintain the automation test suite   Evaluate build quality by examining the test results from build acceptance tests in continuously deployed environments, multiple times a day   Define test data and reports for both functional and non-functional requirements   Work with the team to identify gaps, prioritize and resolve issues    Raise defects found during the evaluation and work with the development teams to get them resolved   Collaborate with different functional groups (Development and Operations) to identify gaps, prioritize, and resolve issues   Work with different teams to understand new components being delivered in the pipeline and develop innovative acceptance tests   Work closely with development and operations teams to experiment and fine tune the environment sizing   Participate in various POCs in order to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to the product offerings   Add, maintain and update scripts in existing automation suite, helping with running the suite across various checkpoints in the release cycle   Participate in production deployments, record findings and share insightful feedback with product teams   Adhere to best practices and coding standards   Mentor less experienced resources on the team   Provide support for reports and visuals in the release pipeline   Stay current on modern software development best practices, emerging technologies, and design patterns and contribute to thought leadership efforts   Generate test summary reports for management review   Use strong communication and natural curiosity to provide trusted and highly valuable feedback   You Are Increase the automation footprint by automating the tests prioritized within the team   Shift left by automating in the right levels so that early feedback is provided to the developers   Focus on keeping the testing time to minimum by engaging in building a good test framework that allows for quick feedback   Troubleshoot issues arising from scripts, environment, product and raise appropriate defects   Continuously iterate on keeping the test scripts portable and scalable   Keep the automated tests clean and healthy, allowing teams to depend on these test results   Deprecate noisy and irrelevant tests   Ruthlessly focus on continuous improvement and use every opportunity to provide the right levels of automation   If involved in performance engineering, troubleshooting system health and resources in order to advise scaling   Continuously experiment to use modern technologies   Is a quick self-guided, independent learner. Does not depend on the mentor/buddy/manager for repeated sessions. Does enough homework before asking necessary questions.   Is productive within a month of joining the company. The team is aware of this individual and begins to include them for more work. Unearths good defects and can ask the right questions   Effective collaborator. Speaks clearly and succinctly in standups and clearly indicates the status of tasks assigned   Great team player, helps find defects, resolve with right test cases and data and can influence the right level of automation   High energy and is very efficient, effective and reliable   The tests written and conducted by the resource is comprehensive and does not lead to too many escaped defects to production   Continuous improvement areas focusing on the right levels of automation   Exhibits the right attitude, devops mindset and shift-left principles   Creative simulation of problems in production and right test data in internal test systems   Understands the errors in logs and can troubleshoot product issues   Excellent oral and written communication. Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative, solve problems independently and supervise others     Strong communications skills and be comfortable leading meetings as needed    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and root causes analysis    Passion for high quality work and attention to detail    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical or business field    8+ years of relevant experience working as a developer or SDET or architect  or performance engineer   8+ years of experience coding in Java and must have strong practical knowledge of OOPs and Core Java principles   5+ years of experience working in automated test and continuously deployed environments   5+ years of experience in any of the defect tracking tools like JIRA and test tracking tools like  Qtest  , ALM, Qmetry     4+ years of experience with Java and Groovy and a deep practical knowledge of OOPs and core java principles   4+ years of experience contributing to Test-Driven Development (TDD) with JUnit, Mockito, Podam, TestNG   4+ years of experience using open source tools for enhancing the release process, delivery and visibility, with greater emphasis on unit/integration/api testing   4+ years of understanding APIs and automation using tools like Postman, SOAP, or REST Assured   4+ years of experience building test automations using tools such as Selenium Webdriver, Java, Cucumber/Gherkin, Maven, Jenkins, Appium, Jmeter   4+ years of experience in identifying memory leakage, connection issues and ability to test the throttling within the application   4+ years of experience with tools such as Bitbucket, Git, Stash, Confluence, JIRA    4+ years of working in applications that followed Agile development lifecycle   4+ years of experience troubleshooting logs, monitoring test systems using tools like Kibana    3+ years of experience with applications deployed on cloud    3+ years of experience working with teams across geos   Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Ability to separate noise and arrive at the root causes analysis    Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative, solve problems independently and mentor others     Passion for high quality work and attention to detail   Strong oral and written communication skills    Where we Work OneTrust embraces a hybrid working model. Our Working@ OneTrust initiative is our way of clarifying where we hire, how we work together, and where we’re located in that hybrid model.   The underlying “why” for Working@ is that we are intentional about the culture that we want to create together. That includes bringing teams together, in-person, throughout the year to collaborate, build connections, learn from each other, and celebrate our wins to Finish Stronger .   We are committed to a flexible approach informed by a set of guiding principles. You’ll see that reflected in our worker designations: “Office-flex” and “Location-flex”. Office-flex: Like a traditional hybrid model, OneTrust “Office-flex” employees may be asked to work in an office periodically if they are within a commutable distance to a OneTrust office. This includes coming into the office for our Company Kickoff, Company All Hands, and other larger company events. Beyond that, we give our leaders and teams the flexibility to set additional guidelines based on the nature of your role.   Location-flex: Similar to other companies’ remote policies, for OneTrust “Location-flex" roles , you will primarily work from your home office location. However, you may be   require d to travel to our OneTrust office s or customer sites periodically based on the nature of your role. Each role may have specific requirements , so we encourage you to verify the location of the role with your recruiter during your first interview. Benefits As an employee at  OneTrust , you will be part of the OneTeam . That means you’ll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity stock options, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. For more information, talk to your recruiter or visit onetrust.com/careers. Resources   Check out the following to learn more about OneTrust and its people:  OneTrust Careers on YouTube @LifeatOneTrust on Instagram Your Data You have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our  Privacy Overview .  You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the  Data Subject Request Form . Our Commitment to You   When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination? A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new industry — Trust. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career   OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.