Software Quality Engineer

at  Frontdoor

Overview
Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset – their home. As the parent company of two leading brands, we bring over 50 years of experience in providing our members with comprehensive options to protect their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns through our extensive network of pre-qualified professional contractors. American Home Shield, the category leader in home service plans with approximately two million members, gives homeowners budget protection and convenience, covering up to 23 essential home systems and appliances. Frontdoor is a cutting edge, one-stop app for home repair and maintenance. Enabled by our Streem technology, the app empowers homeowners by connecting them in real time through video chat with pre-qualified experts to diagnose and solve their problems. The Frontdoor app also offers homeowners a range of other benefits including DIY tips, discounts and more. For more information about American Home Shield and Frontdoor, please visit frontdoorhome.com .
Responsibilities
Our QE’s work with Product Managers and Development team to understand features and technical implementation, and ensure our sites, products, and platforms perform to industry-beating quality levels. The person is expected to be result oriented, good interpersonal skills, and should be able to work both independently and in a team environment. It is expected that the person must strive to raise the bar of QE practices and establish high quality test standards.

DESIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must have – functional testing experience from writing to executing the test cases.
Must have - UI automation and understanding of the framework.
Must have - REST API, protobuf testing and automation experience.
Ability to build a Test automation framework and CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
Must have problem solving skills and open to code using any programming language, preferably Java.
Nice to have – Performance testing and DevOPS experience.
Working experience on DB would be great.
Qualifications
Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements:
High school diploma or equivalent required, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred
Minimum Experience required: 2+years product development experience

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, such as data structures, (trees, graphs, hash tables); understanding of functioning and implementation of basic algorithms, such as sorts, searching, and the capability to explain performance characteristics using Big-O Notations.
Capability to debug moderately complex problems and analyze logs in production systems and to read existing code.
Understanding of various data storage options, such as relational, no-SQL, etc.
Scripting skill in Shell, Python, or Ruby
Skills in languages, such as C, C++, Java, Golang, .net Core
Experience in following a defined process and understanding of how the process helps in day to day job
Ability to be on call on a rotating basis for the services owned by the team.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Experience in developing products in an Agile development environment
Experience working in a CI/CD environment
Understanding of Git and development activities such as merge and conflict resolution of code
Understanding and experience in Docker, Kubernets, and AWS cloud services
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Job Locations US
ID 2024-3488
Category Engineering
Type Full Time
Company AHS American Home Shield Cor

Develop, maintain and execute smoke, regression, functional, performance and other test cases as needed. Ensure test cases have full traceability back to business requirements and technical specifications.
Be able to understand the software internals, debug issues, review logs and write automated tests with scripting and automation tools.
Bring in new thoughts, tools and innovation to the team.
Communicate the testing metrics to the stakeholders on regular basis.
Expertise in Software test life cycle and Defect life cycle
Identify and maintain current automation framework and test data requirements.
Team player