Lead SDET - Hybrid

Lead SDET - Hybrid

Please Note: This position is hybrid; however, you must reside within driving distance of our office in Pittsburgh, PA to attend meetings and team collaboration.

ClubLabs is the digital acceleration team for Automobile Club of Southern California, also known as, AAA. We are the team responsible for building intuitive customer experiences across the organization’s insurance, membership, financial, emergency roadside, and travel services. We’re a team of engineers, designers, researchers, and product managers within AAA delivering maximum value to our members and business for a smarter future.

The Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr. SDET) is responsible for developing software, frameworks, and automation tools to enable the teams to have end-to-end confidence of their applications. The ideal candidate for this role is one that values continuous learning, believes in the value that can be provided through quality engineering and has strong motivations for cross-functional development over multiple disciplines. A QA Lead knows how to lead by example, works well with others, is a strong communicator, and can help guide the team to in accomplishing the company’s vision.

Qualifications of a Lead

• Experience with and a desire to coach and mentor colleagues.

• Strong written and communication skills.

• Team player and known leader.

 Responsibilities:

• Create automation frameworks to drive quality and improve speed of deployment, with a specific focus on mobile applications.

• Proficiency with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium.

• Assesses and understands the flow of code and its interaction with various processes.

• Documents processes and client demands for process improvement.

• Logs, manages, and tracks user issues and cases.

• Troubleshoots bugs and other issues on mobile, desktop, and web-based platforms.

• Tests automation builds, execution, and script troubleshooting.

• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years’ experience in an applicable software development environment, with a focus on mobile applications.

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented principles, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.

• Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting/problem-solving skills.

• Uses software development best practices for design and coding. Continuously improve the code quality, maintainability, and readability.

• Participate and provide feedback during planning meetings (i.e., pre-iteration, iteration, and retrospectives).

• Strong knowledge of TDD, BDD, and Testing patterns.

• Demonstrated ability to own, design, lead, and implement test strategies for complex applications and deployment topologies, especially for mobile platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and create/explain/defend technical designs.

• Strong experience with Continuous Integration.

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

• Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners.

• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Working with pipeline as code and GitHub Actions.

• Experience with Saucelabs and TestRails.

• Load and performance testing.

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Remarkable benefits:
•    Health coverage for medical, dental, vision
•    401(K) saving plan with company match AND Pension
•    Tuition assistance
•    PTO for community volunteer programs
•    Wellness program
•    Employee discounts (membership, insurance, travel, entertainment, services and more!)

Auto Club Enterprises is the largest federation of AAA clubs in the nation. We have 14,000 employees in 21 states helping 17 million members. The strength of our organization is our employees. Bringing together and supporting different cultures, backgrounds, personalities, and strengths creates a team capable of delivering legendary, lifetime service to our members. When we embrace our diversity – we win. All of Us! With our national brand recognition, long-standing reputation since 1902, and constantly growing membership, we are seeking career-minded, service-driven professionals to join our team.

"Through dedicated employees we proudly deliver legendary service and beneficial products that provide members peace of mind and value.”

AAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer