SDET with Azure Experience

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Company Description

Webtellect operates with the zeal of a start-up, to provide expert software design and development services to a suite of clients. We are not the firm where folks can put the feet up, enjoy a paycheck, and mill around the water cooler.  We are the firm that is passionate about technology, and utilizing such in the pursuit of solving business and real-world challenges.  Work hard, play harder.  Our clients have defined budgets and we are held to higher expectations.  We have various vertical markets we attack offering relevant solutions, and therefore we do not live and breathe in only a "single technology" or "one-technology-fits-all mindset."  Each project potentially offers something new.  We have a driving passion for software excellence.  Feathers in our cap includes the development of interactive exhibits for the Visitor Center of the world’s largest philanthropic organization, custom enterprise platform development for the largest drilling company in the U.S. Oil and Gas industry, Medical Record solutions, and giving back to our community through various programs.

Job Description

We are in need of a strong, experienced development engineer to focus on our Azure based web services, including APIs, data binding and integration with our Content Management System. The focus will be primarily on back end services with some potential work on the client side technologies (ie, JavaScript). 

Our client is Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research collaborates with academic institutions, industry, and internal product teams to advance the state of the art in computer science. The team is a small group of FTEs who plan, design, implement and release incubation projects, while managing highly skilled vendors to scale out development and QA. This model means that our vendors must be experienced, dedicated and an integral part of solving the technical design and engineering challenges we face. Some examples of our projects include World Wide Telescope (http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/), ChronoZoom (http://www.chronozoom.com/), TryF# (http://www.tryfsharp.org/), CodaLab (https://www.codalab.org/), and Skype Translator (http://www.skype.com/en/translator-preview/). We’ve established credibility by shipping ambiguous and ambitious projects on time

We are currently looking for a Redmond, Washington based SDET to work with us on the sustained engineering group for Research News. The group will be tasked with maintaining and adding small features to Research News (https://www.researchnews.com) while the product gains in popularity. Maintaining the site with high quality and reliability standards during this period will be the primary focus of the sustained engineering team. The successful candidate will have a strong test mentality including strong customer focus, attention to detail, and strong analytical skills. The successful candidate will also have a proven track record of creating test automation for regression analysis for web sites and have strong analysis skills to analyze logs, information available in debuggers, and tools like Fiddler, etc. to help better define the characteristics of the bug.

Successful candidate should have excellent software coding and debugging skills. This position will require an individual that is self-directed and can work independently with the small group of engineers that will be doing sustained engineering and minor product enhancements. This position will need to work closely with all members of the engineering team and editorial staff. The position requires an individual comfortable applying their skills in a broad range of environments, with an aptitude to adapt and learn quickly

Qualifications

• Self-directed, can determine test strategy and create regression test automation independently.

• Strong testing mentality and an eye for quality defects

• Strong debugging and technical problem solving skills

• Experience with Azure websites.

• Experience with Azure Blob and Table Storage.

• Experience with Visual Studio coded UI web test automation.

• Experience with Visual Studio online load test technology.

• Experience in developing test plans/strategies and ability to collaborate cross team to define measurement for quality, assess risk and mitigation plans

• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience. 

• 5+ years’ experience with software test development using C#, Javascript, or equivalent technology

• Experience with Cosmos a plus

• Experience with Sangam workflow a plus.  


Additional Information

W2 only

Local to Redmond, WA area.

Onsite.

No Visa can be sponsored.  Any submitted resume that does not meet this requirement, will be deleted.

6 month contract