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The Software Test Engineer is responsible for developing automated testing strategies and implementing them in industry standard testing frameworks.

The Software Test Engineer primarily provides continued automated testing oversight for their team’s projects, and collaborates with several stakeholders to ensure proper monitoring is in place for their team’s deployed systems.

Autonomy

Works under general direction within a clear framework of accountability.  Exercises substantial personal responsibility and autonomy.  Plans own work to meet given objectives and processes.

Influence

Influences customers, suppliers and partners at team and release train level. Participates in external

activities related to own specialism. Collaborates with others to make decisions which influence the success of projects and team objectives.

Complexity

Work includes a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigates, defines and resolves complex issues.

Business Skills

Selects appropriately from delivery stream and industry standards, methods, tools and applications. Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborates with stakeholders who share common objectives. Plans, schedules and monitors work to meet time and quality targets. Rapidly absorbs new information and applies it effectively. Maintains an awareness of developing technologies and their application and takes some responsibility for driving own development.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Planning

Understands the challenges that delivery and operations teams face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable test solutions.

Recommends improvements to testing processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of testing teams and reduce technical debt.

Automation Development

Owns the testing automation strategy, test data management strategy, and test automation framework architecture.

Develops new or maintains existing test automation frameworks for all applications that automation currently supports.

Writes, debugs and executes code used in automated testing efforts.

Coordinates regression test automation activities across supported applications.

Defines, implements, and manages processes and “best practices” regarding automated testing.

Establishes processes to continually review and select manual test cases for automation test suites.

Provides metrics on business process and code coverage for automated test suites.

Presents test results to stakeholders.

Partners with feature developers and other automation engineers to build the tools and infrastructure to ensure production code is thoroughly tested to the highest standards

Application Support

Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.

Take call, handling incident response on rotation with team.

Advice and Guidance

Actively works with less experienced software test engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.

Receives and gives advice and guidance in accordance with the “Champion Inclusion” principle of our Cox Enterprises’ Empowered People Model.

Emergency Technology Monitoring

Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new testing technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.

Skills

Business Process Testing

Ability to:

Manage the strategy, design and execution of business process tests and usability evaluations.

Testing

Ability to:

Determine testing standards and influence others in best practices.

Manage all testing activities. 

Manage and communicate all risks associated with the execution of testing as it relates to the quality and predictability of the encompassing program and takes mitigating action when any risks become unacceptable. 

Assess and advise on the possibility of testing process alternatives, including automated testing. 

Initiate improvements to test processes and contributes to their implementation. 

Assess vendor’s capabilities for supporting testing efforts.

Manage stakeholder relationships with respect to all testing matters.

Programming/ Software Development 

Ability to:

Design and implement test automation frameworks using industry best practices.

Evangelize and implement test frameworks across the software testing teams.

Application Support 

Ability to:

Continue to optimize testing frameworks to meet the needs of the business. 

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary of $73,440 – 102,918. Salary may vary outside of the anticipated range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's experience.

Position is eligible for additional compensation that may include commission (annual, monthly, etc.) and/or an incentive program.

Qualifications:

Essential 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education

5 – 8 working experience in software testing and/or development, leveraging automated testing frameworks

Working experience testing within multiple technology stacks (e.g. Front-end: React, Single SPA; Back-end: .NET, MySQL, Docker)

Experience with Application Support using monitoring tools (New Relic, Splunk, DataDog)

Working experience with software test tools and processes, building and testing frameworks, and consumer-facing applications and databases

Working experience with regulatory standards testing processes 

Working knowledge in analysis, design and programming

Desirable

Working experience using one or more of the following: Postman, Playwright, BrowserStack, JMeter

Working experience of scripting and configuration tools 

Working knowledge of delivering products in an engineering, operations, or release role

Working knowledge of development lifecycle methodologies (e.g. waterfall, agile, iterative)

Performance Testing Experience (See Specializations below)

Specializations – Performance

Key Responsibilities:

Writes, debugs and executes code used in performance testing efforts.

Plans approach and test strategy for performance testing and benchmarking.

Maintains existing scripts for the purpose of reusability and performance regression testing.

Analyzes test results to identify issues, and works with architects and developers to suggest improvements and drive issues to resolution. 

Conducts performance tests, analyses and presents test results, metrics and drives issues to resolution.

Builds repository of historical performance runs for the purpose of plotting trends over time.

Evangelizes the benefits of performance testing; providing demos and industry presentations. 

Working experience with performance and load testing tools and practices

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox 

We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us.  Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators.  We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation.  We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).  For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.  Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.  

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