LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER COVER LETTER TEMPLATE

• Develop, direct, communicate, grow, and evolve Equitable’s capabilities in Shift Left testing
• Work alongside and provide training and mentorship to the software development and QA teams
• Enable principles, techniques, and solutions in the areas of Test Automation, Performance Engineering, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery, Unit testing and TDD across multiple technology domains
• Actively participate in projects as an SME to move testing activities left in a hands-on manner as an active project contributor
• Mentoring and training project team members to enable them to become self sufficient in “Shift Left testing” techniques and processes
• Actively participate in cross-team planning discussions to increase test automation coverage
• Analyzing how systems are being tested manually and identifying opportunities to reduce that time and effort through automation
• Mentor software development teams in design principles
• Recommend system designs or design changes using design principles to promote the creation of testable, loosely coupled systems and system components
• Partner with and guide solution delivery teams to enable the health of existing in-house automation frameworks and automation suites
• Collaborate with Software development leaders, Project Managers, Product Managers, and others to ensure smooth integration of Shift Left Testing solutions into various projects and SDLC methodologies
• Meet regularly with IT leadership to provide metrics on Equitable’s capabilities in quality, CI/CD, and security of existing applications
• Research, recommend, and implement best practices based on the latest tools, technologies, trends and approaches

Skills: Shift Left Testing, Team Mentorship, Test Automation, Performance Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Automation Opportunity Analysis, Design Principles, Cross-Team Collaboration

• Lead and participate in the review of product requirements and functional specs to develop test strategies, test plans, and test cases
• Lead the planning, design, and development of test automation strategies along with their Data Services team and Agile projects colleagues
• Create/Manage automation development and test execution and ensure automation coverage is continuously improving and covers the critical business and technical use cases
• Analyze how systems are being tested manually and identify opportunities to reduce the time and effort through Automation
• Work with the QA team and the development teams to lead and shepherd the test automation strategy
• Developing innovative approaches, techniques, and solutions in the areas of Automation, Performance Engineering, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery, BDD and TDD
• Advocate for the SHIFT LEFT approach to testing to identify issues sooner in the development life cycle
• Communicate with the development team and managers about meaningful test metrics, test automation, test results, test gaps, and other relevant metrics/information to stakeholders, with a relevant action plan to improve quality

Skills: Automation Strategy, Test Planning, Test Automation, Manual Analysis, QA Collaboration, Performance Engineering, Shift Left Testing, Quality Metrics

• Own the end-to-end quality of the product features and show continuous improvements to quality throughout the product life cycle
• Diagnose, debug and document root cause analysis of issues and defects
• Ensure the delivery of a high-quality product to customers
• Participate in continuous delivery and deployment, take ownership, and strive to become a problem solver
• Help to achieve the Sprint/Release quality criteria for the story/feature/release by ensuring that it meets the criteria defined in the definition of done that is agreed upon by the team
• Influence feature design with a strong focus on testability among the development teams
• Enforce high-quality standards that can be measured and monitored
• Partner with business colleagues and other IT Stakeholders to analyze current data to build usage models for the future, which will become the backbone of test planning and strategy

Skills: Quality Ownership, Issue Diagnosis, Product Assurance, Continuous Delivery, Testability Focus, Quality Standards, Stakeholder Partnership, Data Analysis

• Builds and implements scalable automated quality assurance best practices
• Partners with various stakeholders within the engineering organization to understand evolving automation needs
• Propose technical solutions to meet the needs
• Creating over system test architecture
• Using appropriate test instruments and tools 
• Coordinating with project management software and support engineers to deliver stable enterprise software products
• Responsible for configuring test automation networks and executing stability and performance tests
• Monitor, mentor, collaborate and continuously improve the effectiveness of the testing function
• Bring about improvements through insights gained via analysis at all stages of the SDLC/STLC

Skills: Automation Best Practices, Stakeholder Collaboration, Technical Solutions, Test Architecture, Test Instrumentation, Project Coordination, Performance Testing, Testing Improvement

• Responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of programs/systems as part of the Agile product delivery lifecycle
• Identify needs and requirements and manage solution development
• Ensuring effectiveness in meeting customer needs
• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements, information flow, technical requirements, and resources needed
• Select between alternative system solutions to make a design proposal
• Ensure that applications are secure and up-to-date
• Create complex prototypes
• Provide support and leadership to the Product Owner and other squad members, including review of peer squad members' deliverables and giving guidance to resolve problems
• Ensure production of complete systems documentation and operating procedures
• Give presentations to management

Skills: Secure Design, Solution Development, Requirements Analysis, System Proposals, Prototype Creation, Team Leadership, Documentation Delivery, Management Presentation

• Development experience using Java/J2EE applications using various Open source and proprietary frameworks - Spring, hibernate, etc.
• Experience developing microservices and cloud native applications
• Experience in QA, Maintenance, Design, or Engineering
• Automated testing experience (web and mobile)
• Must have experience with Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration Methods
• Must have experience with NodeJS, Postgres, React, and AWS
• Must have experience with testing and support for iOS and Android applications
• Must be a strong leader with good collaboration skills to work with the engineering team
• Should have some knowledge and experience of Docker and of Kubernetes
• Strong management and leadership experience
• Understanding of the Agile / Scrum Methodology / CI / TDD

Qualifications: BS in Computer Science with 6 years of Experience

• Software development experience in a lead or architect role
• Working experience in Platform Engineering or in an SRE capacity
• Working experience in Kubernetes, Monitoring/Performance, Infrastructure, and DevOps (New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, AWS/Azure, CloudWatch, Cortex, Pager Duty, Terraform, Jenkins or similar, GitOps, etc.)
• Strong Linux, Bash, Automation, and Scripting skills
• Ability to tackle problems sustainably, always aiming to improve processes and learn
• Proven results-oriented person - especially in the areas of writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Works well in a distributed team environment across multiple geographies
• Able to develop strong working relationships and promote a positive, collaborative tone
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
• Strong familiarity with and understanding of design and design tools
• Experience developing design tools
• Experience developing for multiple devices and platforms
• Experience with Agile development processes

Qualifications: BS in Software Engineering with 9 years of Experience

• Software development experience with experience working in a variety of technologies (i.e., Java, .NET, Python, Angular, React, Django, Cloud) and skills (i.e., DevOps, maintenance, development, analysis, testing, different development languages, databases, platforms)
• Background in delivering high-quality code that leverages language and industry best practices, while also being able to define and communicate team standards
• Proven track record of running Agile/Scrum projects for business stakeholders
• Team leadership and/or mentoring experience
• Skilled at communicating using a variety of methods, including email, phone, video conference, instant messaging, collaboration tools, and in-person
• Commitment to exceptional client service as an individual contributor and team leader
• Planning and organizational skills
• Demonstration of flexibility in the face of changing business and client requirements
• Software development experience working on consumer digital products 
• Experience in Rails development 
• Experience in React development 
• Experience with accessibility standards, security compliance measures 
• Experience with experimentation software and techniques

Qualifications: BS in Computer Engineering with 7 years of Experience

• Experience in software engineering
• Experience in Java, Spring Boot, JPA, REST, Microservice pattern and related technologies, SQL, No-SQL, Web Services, web-frameworks, etc
• Experience in Cloud software development. 
• Deep understanding of AWS or similar services like Azure, Google Cloud 
• Experience leading and mentoring other developers
• Ability to lead the team through agile software development with little supervision
• Detailed understanding of Golang, React, Oauth, SCIM
• Deep understanding of Big data, Apache Spark, Data bricks, Python and Scala
• Extensive knowledge of AWS core constructs - KMS, Queues, Notification services, Cache, Cloud Watch

Qualifications: BA in Information Systems with 5 years of Experience

• Experience with the Spring framework
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting, Perl and Python
• Exposure to or experience of C++
• Exposure to CI/CD tooling - Ansible/Chef, Jenkins
• Exposure to Cloud and/or Analytics (ELK) technologies
• Able to take accountability for delivering results
• Experience with React and/or Typescript 
• Experience with Flask 
• Experience working with multiple data storage technologies
• Experience with NoSQL and graph databases
• Experience with Terraform, Serverless Application Model, Serverless Framework
• Experience with the AWS cloud platform
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres
• Experience with orchestrating containers using ECS and Fargate
• Experience with AWS Serverless services such as Lambda, Aurora, SQS, and SNS

Qualifications: BS in Data Science with 8 years of Experience