Rapid7 is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to join the engineering team in our offices in El Segundo, CA. This team is focused on expanding Rapid7’s existing products and creating new product lines. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of shipping enterprise-class software to a large installed customer base.
Candidates must be able to quickly ramp up, learn our product suite and immediately set to transforming product stories into a functional test suite developed in Cucumber, specifically identifying key high risk quality targets. Prior experience in the security, networking and/or data analytics space is a plus. Candidates must have the ability to quickly grasp Rapid7’s current product designs, become proficient with Rapid7’s products, and become knowledgeable in company tools and technologies. This is an extremely hands-on, technical role.
Using our current suite of framework tools, along with introducing appropriate new solutions to creatively build a world class verification automation framework, we expect out-of-the-box thinking from candidates as with all engineers. This SDET is a key member of the core Engineering team and will be responsible for creating a reliable, scalable test toolset approach for assigned product coverage, as well as contributing to the improvement of our release framework. The ideal candidate has a solid track record of day-to-day test automation framework development in Ruby or similar and contributing on verification strategy and risk mitigation improvements.
The Software Engineer is a key member of the CORE Engineering team and will be responsible for creating a reliable, scalable tools and test framework to help maintain and ensure stability and quality of our product.
We are an agile company with weekly(!) product releases. Great environment and attitude. As part of a scrum team you will be interacting with PM/Support/Customers to help us build the right things for our customers.
Responsibilities:
- Enable the team to meet release based and SLA-bound release requirements
- Test Extend and improve upon existing framework automation
- Design, develop and refine Cucumber automation classes and code strategy for the automation framework
- Analyze epics being developed and create succinct tools coverage as well as identify the areas for regression coverage
- Develop reusable automated regression verification frameworks to improve test framework scope
- Work to document, analyze and investigate issues found during test execution and present findings to help provide solutions
- Work with all key groups to insure functional and non-functional requirements are tracked and converted into test components for continuous automation coverage
- Drive towards delivery of those commitments throughout the iteration and raise risks early
- Identify the risks and appropriate testing to validate coverage, and develop test plans and test cases
- Be open to learning new technologies and new problem domains.