Software Engineer in Test

TRADER Corporation is a trusted Canadian leader in online media, dealer and lender services. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync and Dealertrack Canada. AutoTrader.ca (AutoHebdo.net in Quebec) offers the largest inventory of new cars and used cars in Canada, receiving over 25 million monthly visits to its marketplace. With over 3,500 subscribers and counting, AutoSync is the largest and fastest growing dealer and OEM software provider in Canada. The platform's suite of connected automotive software solutions brings advertising, conversion and operational support together, synchronizing the entire retail process. AutoSync's diverse range of offerings includes: vAuto, EasyDeal, xtime, Motoinsight, Activix, TAdvantage and TRFFK. Dealertrack is Canada’s largest automotive financing portal, enhancing efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Over 6.5 million credit applications are submitted via the Dealertrack Canada portal each year. Visit tradercorporation.com to learn more..

The Software Engineer in Test (SDET) works across agile teams to ensure integration points meet functional, performance, and code standard requirements. This role requires that software engineering best practices be applied to the domain of software quality testing. Working closely with engineering managers, product owners, and other agile team members, the SDET ensures that the desired results for our services are achieved and maintained. 

    Help ensure standards and metrics for our products and projects are met. 

    Continually improve our testing standards, tools and processes. 

    Follow best practices for test coverage, automation and the general testing lifecycle. 

    Communicating with all stakeholders to ensure that the quality metrics are agreed upon and continually reviewed. 

    Ensure testing metrics are visible via reporting and dashboards. 

    Ensuring all development tasks meet quality standards through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and defect tracking. 

    Help to follow a strategy that favors test automation over manual testing. 

    Maintain and expand existing automation frameworks. 

    Review test plans and ensure that that they are reviewed by all stakeholders. 

    Ensure proper coverage of various testing strategies like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance, etc. 

    Be a point of contact for escalations related to testing and quality assurance. 

    Work with the team to improve the CI/CD and deployment pipeline. 

 

    An expert in both manual and automated testing 

    Good programming skills and software development best practices (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc) 

    Good knowledge of testing frameworks such as Junit/testNG with Selenium. 

    Experience with load testing using JMeter, or similar. 

 

    4+ years hands-on software testing experience. 

    Strong knowledge of the “Test Pyramid” and testing strategies. 

    Hands-on experience with automation using selenium web driver, JUnit/testNG framework with POM, or similar. 

    Automation testing, test case development, test execution, test results analysis, and test optimization. 

    Web-application mobile testing and automation experience. 

    Experience working within a formal CI/CD pipeline. 

    Good understanding of version control tools such as GIT. 

    Agile team and methodology experience. 

 

    Experience in BDD/TDD. 

    AWS code pipeline - build and deployment experience. 

    Jira/Confluence experience. 

    Kanban tools and processes experience. 

    New Relic/Splunk hands on experience.