Software Test Engineer II

Cox Automotive is hiring for a Software Test Engineer II who will be responsible for a range of testing activities including designing and maintaining test frameworks, implementing industry best practices, and identifying process gaps where automation can enhance efficiency. This role requires an individual who actively seeks to improve existing frameworks, suites, and processes across the organization.

Responsibilities:

1. Actively participate in agile team activities such as providing input into story sizing, backlog refinement, and release planning.
2. Participate in ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
3. Engage in the engineering community, staying up to date on new testing technologies and best practices, and share insights with others in the organization.
4. Implement testing automation, test data management strategy, and test automation frameworks.
5. Develop new or maintain existing test automation frameworks for all applications that automation currently supports.
6. Coordinate test automation activities across supported applications.
7. Establish processes to continually review and select manual test cases for automation test suites.
8. Provide metrics on code coverage for automated test suites.
9. Partner with feature developers and other automation engineers to build tools and infrastructure to ensure production code is thoroughly tested to the highest standards.
10. Provide domain knowledge of practices related to resilience, performance, security, and similar topics to assist our engineering teams in delivering reliable, high-performance, and secure servers to our visitors and partners.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or other engineering discipline), and 2+ years experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 year's experience; or 14 years' experience in a related field.
2. 3+ years of software testing, automation, or software development experience.
3. Knowledge in integrating automated testing with CI/CD processes.
4. Proficiency in writing SQL queries is a must.
5. Experience with an object-oriented programming language such as Java, Python, or Ruby.
6. Experience with API testing is a must.
7. Knowledge in cloud technologies.
8. Understanding of Agile QA concepts, practices, processes, and tools.
9. Passion for delivering high-quality products to clients.
10. Working experience in unit, functional, and integration testing.
11. Good understanding of industry development, testing processes, deployment processes, and agile development methodologies.
12. Excellent communication, time management, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $77,800.00 - $116,800.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
About Cox Automotive:
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox:
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Equal Employment Opportunity:
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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