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Cox Automotive, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer  to join our team!

Cox Enterprises is a family-run operation that began nearly 120 years ago. As part of this great family business, we treat our team members and clients like they’re just that — family. This atmosphere has been instrumental to our success and has shaped our willingness to fuel epic innovation, drive unprecedented growth and deliver the mind-blowing, needle-moving, connected experience we promise.

About the Position

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for providing testing expertise, guidance, and oversight. The successful candidate plays a role in providing advice, guidance and monitoring emerging technologies.

The candidate will demonstrate the Professional Technology Skills including the ability to:

Business Process Testing:

Responsible for organizational commitment to high standards in human factors. 

Specify ergonomics standards and methods to meet organizational objectives. 

Set the policy and standards for business process testing. 

Manage the design and execution of business process tests, usability evaluations, network and business trials, confidence tests.

Maintain an overview of the business environment, required outcomes and potential exposures

Testing:

Coordinate and manage planning of the system and/or acceptance tests, including software security testing, within a development or integration project or program. 

Take responsibility for integrity of testing and acceptance activities and coordinates the execution of these activities. 

Provide authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of test planning and execution. Defines and communicates the test strategy for the project. 

Manage all test processes, including test plans, resources, costs, timescales, test deliverables and traceability.

Manage client relationships with respect to testing matters. 

Identify process improvements and contributes to corporate testing standards and definition of best practice.

Cox Automotive is transforming the way the world buys, sells and owns cars. Come join the transformation! 

Qualifications:

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Cox Automotive you will:

Drive test strategy conversations and defines individual test cases, integrated end-to-end test scenarios and validation criteria. 

Analyze products for completeness and consistent user experiences.

Review opinion labs and customer satisfaction surveys and reproduces findings to validate a defect or bug exists.

Collaborate on black box testing with a goal of improving overall quality of products.

Review tooling for QA best practices (automation, performance, low code/no-code solutions)

Ensure system and software quality by writing, maintaining, running, analyzing the family of tests (e.g., unit, functional, integrated, regression, automated, exploratory, performance).

Analyze and synthesize actual results compared to expected results, troubleshoots, and assists in the diagnosis of unintended results, and logs errors to investigate cause.

Communicate test results to stakeholders.

Coordinate testing activities with remote teams as needed.

Actively work with less experienced QA analysts providing technical guidance and oversight.

Lead troubleshooting of problems and assists in getting problems appropriately prioritized, assigned, fixed, tested, and closed.

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

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

3-5 years’ experience with software development and/or testing tools and processes. Experience with testing frameworks, consumer-facing web, and mobile applications.

Working experience with regulatory standards testing processes.

3-5 years’ experience with creating and maintaining test scripts in an automated testing framework.

Working experience in delivering software products in an engineering or operations role.

Working experience in development lifecycle methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile, iterative).

What We Look For (preferred): 

Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Working knowledge in analysis, design, and programming

Scrum Developers Certification or equivalent

So, are you ready to challenge today and transform tomorrow? Apply now.

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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