Staff Software Engineer in Test

Job description

3333464
Additional Cities

Greenwood Village, Atlanta
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Renewable Energy
Business Segment

Renewable Energy Grid Solutions
Function

Services
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Colorado, Georgia
Postal Code

80111
Role Summary/Purpose

The Project Software Engineering team delivers customer success through the implementation of software services. GE delivers value to our customers across utilities and telecoms by delivering business outcomes underpinned by the Asset Management core products and applications, with a focus on high quality solutions.
Essential Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly skilled team player who is passionate about testing. In this role you will help lead and participate in efforts regarding how we approach manual and automating testing of our Mobile Enterprise solution. You will need to have a global view on how we create, maintain, and share our testing across the globe internally and with our customers. You will need to be an excellent collaborator, working across several groups from Product Engineering to Services and to Support, making sure our testing approach is unified and always provides value to our customers.

·  Experience working with diverse teams and environments within a Customer focused organization, where our customers are large & medium sized electric, gas and telecommunications companies

·  Agile mindset and ability to work within one or more Scrum Teams across multiple customers and/or projects

·  Familiar with and understand how enterprise Mobile applications are developed, tested and deployed; from client-side to server-side, including general infrastructure setup and cloud environments

·  Able to define, shape and articulate Customer requirements into test plans and quality software

·  Ability to apply Test Driven Development practices to all Software Development work; collaborating with others on where best to focus unit tests, functional tests, manual tests and automated tests

·  Help create and maintain an automated testing framework based on tools such as Katalon Studio, qTest and JUnit

·  Provide guidance and training to the other Asset Management Mobile software engineers regarding the setup and use of the automated testing framework

·  Carry a testing and quality mindset into everything you do and say

·  Interface with project managers, project engineers and customers on general and specific issues

Additional Responsibilities:

·  Analyze, define and prioritize Business and Functional requirements and processes and propose technical solutions to meet the customer’s outcomes; all while using a Test Driven Development approach

·  Ability to take ownership of issues and get them resolved using self-driven initiative

·  Good understanding of DevOps concepts and how testing is a key pillar to the success of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

·  Experience writing automated test scripts using tools such as Katalon Studio, Selenium or Junit

·  Participate & lead technical sessions with other teams regarding the use of and implementation of an automated testing framework

·  Comfortable doing code reviews, looking for test driven approach from developers

·  Cover both white, grey and black box testing of our applications and assist developers with unit testing

Personal Skills:

·  Passionate about customer outcomes and satisfaction

·  Ability to focus on the critical business outcomes and deliver high quality development and testing results

·  Multi task and work on multiple projects simultaneously

·  Good interpersonal skills

·  Strong presentation and communication skills

·  Positive attitude

·  Willingness to accept and promote change

·  Ability to quickly learn and acquire deep understanding of new software applications, methodologies and environments

·  Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering or related discipline with proven experience in a technical consultancy role within the industry, direct customer facing experience, and working experience in a Quality Driven Software Solution environment

·  Minimum of 5 years related work experience with software engineering and testing teams, implementing a suite of mobile products and engaging directly with customers

Eligibility Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

·  Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen

·  Must be willing to travel 10%

·  Must be willing to work out of an office located in Denver, CO or Atlanta, GA
Desired Characteristics

·  2 years Proven experience in a technical consultancy role within the industry

·  2 years Direct customer facing experience

·  2 years Experience working in a Quality Driven Software Solution environment

·  Committed to maintaining the highest standards of service quality in all aspects of project delivery

·  Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities

·  Experience working in an Agile environment, with coding and testing experience in Java, C, C++, C# or similar languages, and have experience using multiple testing frameworks.

·  Ability to apply best practices and always looking to improve the overall implementation process

·  Ability to develop project tools and templates to facilitate ease of implementation

·  Experience with one or more of the following languages: Java, Groovy, Javascript, Python, JSON or XML

·  Experience with one or more of the following practices: web services, micro services, REST API’s, Soap, XCode or Android Studio

·  Hands on experience with one or more of the following: Katalon Studio, Selenium, Appium, qTest, RunnerX or Postman API

·  Knowledge or use of Linux, SQL Server, Couchbase, PostgreSQL and other systems

·  Great understanding of OO software design principles, patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multi-threading concepts

·  Multiple years of professional experience testing multi-tiered client-server systems

·  Experience working with global teams / partners

Business Acumen:

·  Envisions technology landscape best practices and translates them to requirements, architecture and tooling.

·  Defines governance models and engagement processes for use by dependent functions.

·  Viewed as an authority on scalability/supportability, an arbiter on design/development viability and an agent that safeguards customer investments against obsolescence and limits to expansion.

·  Leverages knowledge of Electric, Gas or Telecommunications markets and customer segments to establish further credibility in the eyes of the customer.

·  Acts in a consultative capacity and is provided access to key decision makers throughout the customer account.

·  Establishes strong relationship with key decision makers and other leaders at multiple levels within customer organization.

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About Us

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

Colorado
Primary City

Greenwood Village