Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Senior SDET)

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re looking for a  Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with industry experience to join our team to collaborate and implement, develop and maintain Fivetran’s test automation tools and framework using reliable and scalable techniques.

As a Senior SDET in our Quality Engineering team, you will help the Database Connector team in enhancing and maintaining the Fivetran test automation framework developed utilizing the latest technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Pytest and Python, by adding features to the framework utilizing different non UI open source libraries. In this role you will contribute in adding framework support for product development teams to add end-to-end tests and deliver in improving the quality of the product. You will play a major role in coaching Fivetran quality engineers to be the best in class automation engineers, and will continuously steer the team to ensure high standards for automation. The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and focused on achieving results.

This is a full-time position based out of our Amsterdam office or remote in the Netherlands, Germany or Ireland

Technologies You’ll Use: 

• PyTest and Python
• Relational and Analytical databases such as Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake and Databricks
• Java11, JUnit4
• Docker and Kubernetes
• AWS, GCP
• Terraform
• Jenkins, Bazel, Circle CI

What You’ll Do:

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Creates and maintains automated test cases in Python and Pytest, executes test suites, reviews and diagnoses reported bugs, and ensures overall system quality prior to a customer release.
• Build and share proof of concepts for test automation proposals and ideas.
• Develop solutions and proposals to lead the automation development strategy and implementation that would help maximize Fivetran product’s quality.
• Communicate, coordinate and align automation strategy with the engineering team members, make recommendations to improve reliability, best practices and processes.
• Understand the customer use cases and incidents and come up with test scenarios as needed.
• Actively engage with fellow engineers to ensure we are adding framework support to add new end-to-end tests that makes product development easier and improves quality.

Skills We’re Looking For:

• 6+ Years of experience in the software industry with a passion for quality & automation, preferably in an SDET role.
• Strong knowledge and experience with OOPs concepts, preferably Python. 
• Knowledge of Perl and/or Java is a plus.Experience in understanding the existing test automation frameworks and delivering in improving the framework.
• Expertise on developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, system tests.
• Experience in configuring and monitoring test automation jobs as part of CI/CD pipeline with continuous integration tools like CircleCI/Jenkins.
• Experience in working on non UI automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP,Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s is a plus
• Knowledge of Database Testing, ETL software testing is an added plus.

We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

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