Associate Software Development Engineer Test

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company in India, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Associate Software Development Engineer in Test

At Acquia, quality engineering drives the quality tool chain and process in an open and collaborative environment. To ensure that we have a repeatable process and systems to thoroughly test and uncover defects, quality engineering uses best of breed tools for automation and testing frameworks in conjunction with in-house tooling, infrastructure and services.  SDETs are embedded in each agile development team to facilitate and lead the testing strategy, and test automation requirements for every iteration and release. The quality engineering team also regularly meets to review and improve overall testing processes, automation, innovations and best practices. Each SDET works both independently and as part of a product group, where developers write tests and the quality engineering team supports the testing infrastructure and automation. In addition, they provide guidance for best practices and develop testing systems for smoke testing, behavioral testing, stress testing, performance testing, as well as supporting quality metrics.  

Our Associate SDET is a strong voice for quality that actively pursues quality improvements, writing code, developing new infrastructure and tests to support our fast paced, highly diversified development organization.

Responsibilities:

• Work together with product managers, agile product owners, architects, tech leads and engineers to ensure the quality of our products
• Participate in technical discussions for products and test infrastructure
• Execute Quality best practices, tools, and methodologies
• Identify areas for improved testing efficiencies, test automation and implementation of automated test solutions
• Constantly evaluate the test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, coding standards, etc.)
• Participate with developers in writing prolific test case code using Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, etc
• Build and maintain efficient test frameworks and pipelines for performance, stress, and integration tests.
• Work in an agile model as part of a team to develop fully automated test cases for functional, unit, and integration testing
• Take a hands-on approach to implementing QA processes right from requirements analysis, test design, implementation, automation, execution, maintenance and analysis

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of hands-on experience in QA automation, covering functional, system, integration, and regression testing.
• Proficient programming experience (1-3 years) in a relevant language such as Go, Python, Java, or an equivalent web-focused language.
• Proven experience in developing robust test automation for Backend and API services.
• Strong knowledge of backend API testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Postman, Rest Assured, or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of software testing principles, database concepts (SQL/NoSQL), and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
• Experience with various testing methodologies, including client/server, white-box, black-box, and boundary/negative testing.
• Excellent test design skills, including test case development, automation scripting, and defect analysis.
• Experience with shell scripting for command-line tool utilization.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Travis).

Nice to have:

• Hands on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP/OpenStack
• Familiarity with open source software
• Linux OS system management experience
• Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux, etc.
• Operational knowledge of Drupal or any content management system in a production setting
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes/docker/containers

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.