Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

What's the Short Version? The Sr Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) plays a key role in ensuring software projects, products and enhancements meet SanMar's quality standards by implementing automated testing solutions and frameworks that increase testing efficiencies and reduce cycle times. They are responsible for developing and maintaining test automation frameworks, standards and coding guidelines based on industry best practices and SanMar QA standards. What Will You Be Doing? Manage the automation deliverables of a small automation team (ex. code review, code merge). Standardize test automation processes across multiple IT teams. Build a robust and scalable automation framework to support current and future technology stack. Select and standardize QA automation tools, test environment and test data management efforts while applying best practices. Maintain existing automation scripts as required. Train and mentor QA staff on automation processes, frameworks, coding, tools and acquiring relevant automation expertise and domain knowledge. Manage and assign workloads to automation engineers, as necessary. Evaluate and design automated scripts to ensure end-to-end test coverage; assist with execution, as needed. Assist in creation of dedicated test environment and test data management practices for automation and performance testing. Prepare and maintain complex data sets to test logic, error handling and system workflows for automation. Assist in integrating automation with software delivery pipeline and operationalizing automated smoke tests and daily automated runs for software releases. Design automation metrics and track automation ROI. Document and report automation program status to management. Estimate automated testing effort levels and skill set needs. Contribute to performance and scalability testing efforts. Perform other duties as assigned. Comply with all policies and standards. What Are We Looking For? Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience 4+ years relevant experience as a SDET Experience with web services automation (SOAP and REST) using tools like Soap-UI, WebTest, Postman, or REST Assured, including good working knowledge of XML and JSON. Experience with performance testing or working knowledge of tools like JMeter, NeoLoad, or LoadRunner is preferred. Experience and/or understanding of middleware is a plus. Technical hands-on experience developing automation frameworks and solutions using proprietary and/or open-source tools. Strong ability to create data-driven automated frameworks for extensive UI and back-end data validation using SQL and one or more programming languages like Java, JavaScript, C#, VB Script, Python, or Ruby. Extensive experience with one or more automation tools like Selenium WebDriver, Coded-UI etc. Strong working knowledge of Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery and DevOps; experience…