Software Development Engineer @ McAfee

Role Overview:

We are actively seeking to hire a candidate for an entry-level role of Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for our Enterprise Cloud Group. The Enterprise Cloud Group delivers security software related to cloud. In this position, you will work alongside other SDETs and Developers to design, test, and support components that ship to a very large customer base. You will be also responsible for producing automated test harnesses to test that functionality behaviour matches a specification. You are expected to have a good understanding of the complete development lifecycle and internals of the Cloud Technology. Delivering on tasks relating to feature development and QA, infrastructure, tools, and release deliverables, this position represents an excellent career growth opportunity.

About the role
You will be given the responsibility of ensuring the quality of the end to end feature deliverable.
You will have to quickly understand the feature, come up with useful test cases covering the critical paths of the software.
You will carry out manual test execution and find meaningful bugs.
You will define detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases which are streamlined for automation
Will be responsible for creating, maintaining and executing automated test scripts (using Python)
Write code to test production code with a goal of writing robust, reliable and repeatable tests that find issues early
Plan, design, develop, verify, and maintain automated and manual test suites
Contribute to existing tools, automation frameworks, and related solutions
Increase product automated test coverage and improve the release quality
Analyse product, system and feature designs for flaws and improvements
Provides technical input for product sub-system, application research, design, analysis, testing, process improvement, and troubleshooting.
Peer review code changes to portions of the product and test source code
Validate and verify customer-facing features, end-to-end, across the product platform
You will use your experience in agile development/testing practices, and risk-based testing to ensure efficient release testing
Help development team with test setups and debugging customer issues.

About you
You have at least 3-5 years of experience in manual testing and developing software test automation for enterprise grade software.
Have written elaborate test plan and carried out functional, system and performance testing.
Experience in python (2.7 3) is must.
Understands Python Advanced Concepts (like, Decorator, Iterator Design Pattern, JSON Encoding Decoding, Python Request Module)
Familiarity with Database technologies (Mysql, Crate, Postgres)
Have worked on cloud technologies, knowledge of Clusters/Containers, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure will be an added advantage.
Tech-savvy who can quickly adopt to technological changes.