Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. 

Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform, Atlas delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise. 

Our Identity Security Cloud team is looking for a well-rounded Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a focus on backend-end development. A successful Staff SDET should have excellent troubleshooting skills, experience writing automation tests, creating extensive test cases, and be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards. We are looking for someone capable of driving several projects to completion from a QA perspective and a skilled technician that can also serve as a mentor to the team.  

Responsibilities include designing automation testing best practices, quality standards & processes, manual testing of backend applications, assisting engineers in creation of automation tests, and maintaining healthy automation testing pipelines. We are looking for a visionary that delivers recommendations on how to evolve testing best practices within the organization that solve today’s problems with the future direction of product testing in mind.  

What success looks like in the role 

Within the first 30 days you will: 

• Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology, proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your test and development environment. 

By 90 days: 

• Develop, promote, and maintain quality standards and quality control systems. 

• Collaborate with backend engineers and engineering managers to develop best practices for automation testing. 

• Monitor and analyze quality performance and the health of our automation testing pipeline. 

• Assist developers with testing issues and improving the team’s knowledge in automation testing. 

• Assist in the creation and maintenance of testing environments. 

• Assist in manual verification of full feature testing and ensuring quality across all supported devices. 

By 6 moths: 

• Proactively help improve quality methodologies within the organization to increase efficiency and work with other QA resources to form best practices for how to test our products. 

• Assist in optimizing workflows and processes used in our CI/CD pipelines. 

• Consistently lead code/design reviews & presentation 

• Build out contract testing and contribute to API testing. 

• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities. 

By 1 year:  

• Act as the subject matter expert in test 

• Coach and mentor to other junior engineers on the team  

• Influence beyond engineering occasionally, with other internal groups or customers 

• Participate in planning sessions to gain knowledge of how to best create test plans for solutions designed. 

• Suggest technologies that could help improve quality 

Requirements or things you will learn on the job: 

• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering. 

• Experience writing test cases for manual verification of web applications. 

• Experience developing code in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Java. 

• Experience writing Contract Testing/Automations with tools like Pact, Postman, Cypress. 

• Experience with testing REST APIs in a microservice environment. 

• Experience with AWS and testing SaaS applications 

• Familiarity with SQL and NonSQL data stores. 

• Familiarity with observability tools such as Kibana and Datadog. 

• Familiarity with setting up Synthetic monitoring or similar means of simulating user behavior on live services. 

• Familiarity with Jenkins, Cloudbees and CI/CD workflows. 

• Must have previous experience with requirements, defects, functional, and performance management systems. 

• Self-starter familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience planning and executing multi-sprint tasks with experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence. 

• Strong Communication and interpersonal skills. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

About SailPoint India and our Benefits: 

Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, where cutting-edge solutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever-evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Individuals.  
 
Our Pune team works under a hybrid model enjoying the office 2-3 days a week (unless otherwise specified). We provide excellent office amenities, competitive salaries and strong benefits:  

• Our benefits program offers medical insurance for employees and their dependents, accident insurance and term life insurance for all employees. All premiums are paid by SailPoint.  

• Company sponsored health-checkups for employees and discounted rates for dependents  

• Annual performance bonus  

• Private equity at certain levels  

• 24 Leaves every year in addition, 10 holidays  

• Flexible Work hours