SDET - Big Data Dreambox Learning
Bellevue, WA

Job Description

About Us

For more than a decade we've been adapting, innovating and collaborating to shape new learning possibilities for over 2.6 million kids and 120,000 teachers. Our mission is to inspire all students to think differently about math--and love it. We have a creative office environment and a laid-back company culture that acknowledges hard work while encouraging professional growth and innovation.

Our award-winning online math software is a pioneer in the EdTech space, and we continue to be at the forefront of the industry. Our adaptive technology, curriculum, and game-like environment work together to provide a unique learning experience that's like no other. Learn more.

We are 100% on the Amazon AWS cloud. We work with modern technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Consul, and Nomad to build the next generation of our infrastructure.

SDET (Big Data)

As an SDET you will work very closely with our development team to understand the architecture of our existing product and services under development. You will review and contribute to the overall test strategy and quality of our products and services. In conjunction with dev, you will be designing and implementing tooling that will allow for efficient and comprehensive testing.

About the Role

* Work closely with developers as peers to understand underlying architecture and code changes to come up with test strategies across different data layers
* Understand test automation needs, task out work, and provide feedback on design solutions
* Automate newly integrated features and develop toolsets to augment testing
* Extend our existing automation frameworks to work with new services and write end-to-end automation for user scenarios (data layer)
* Perform continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in regression suites
* Perform manual testing as needed
* Communicate test status and needs accurately and effectively across teams
* Create detailed strategic test plans, actionable bug reports, and follow-up on proposed problem resolutions
* Create deployment plans and oversee the release of features to our production systems
* Evaluate errors post-release to help inform the next iteration of changes to our end-user experiences
* Set up and maintain test environments and test infrastructure on AWS in a Mac OS X/Linux environment
* Firmly and passionately advocate for our customers

About You

* Manual testing and test automation experience
* Experience working in an Agile environment is a plus
* Technical expertise:
* Experience testing back-end (API, database, backend jobs, etc.)
* Strong technical skills with expertise in an object-oriented programming language
* Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL
* Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence experience is a plus
* This is a strongly collaborative role; must be able and willing to work closely with devs/QE on design & review of each other's work
* Willing to grow and to learn about our entire stack and tooling
* Our tech stack includes: Java, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, JSON, UML, HTML/CSS, JavaScript with DOM manipulation and use of AJAX, RESTful services, JavaScript Frameworks (AngularJS, BackboneJS, KnockoutJS, HandlebarsJS, etc.), Linux, Selenium, cloud computing, distributed systems, and Amazon AWS.