Backend Software Development Engineer in Test

The Role

We are currently seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (Backend)  to join ourQuality & Developer Enablement team! - We set and enforce SDLC strategies and standards through tools and services that enable efficient and confident development of high-quality products.The ideal candidate is passionate about empowering developers, improving engineering efficiency, leveraging data-driven insights, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Colorado, California, and New York.

The current range for this role is $90,000 - $141,000 (Base Salary) + bonus + equity + benefits.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

What You’ll Do

1. Quality Strategy and Implementation:
• Contribute to the end-to-end quality initiatives for team features and releases, learning best practices.
• Assist in the development and execution of test strategies across multiple testing levels under guidance.
• Collaborate with developers to understand unit test coverage and integration testing, contributing where possible.
2. Test Automation and Framework Development:
• Build and maintain reliable automated test scripts using modern frameworks, following established guidelines.
• Learn to create reusable test automation components and utilities.
• Develop API testing skills and contribute to maintaining test data management solutions.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with guidance.
3. Quality Analysis and Reporting:
• Track and analyze defect leakage to identify areas for improvement, learning how quality metrics are used.
• Participate in incident postmortems to understand root causes and contribute to preventive measures.
• Present quality metrics and insights to team stakeholders
4. Team Collaboration:
• Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions to understand the development process.
• Contribute to improving testing processes and methodologies
• Support release validation and production verification testing

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software testing experience with a growing understanding of automation.
• Good programming skills in Python with an eagerness to learn and implement automation frameworks.
• Gaining experience with back-end data testing with a willingness to investigate technical issues with developers.
• Exposure to performance testing and API testing concepts.
• Good understanding of testing methodologies and quality metrics
• Some experience testing distributed systems and data processing pipelines is a plus.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills