Senior Software Engineer In Test at OpenText in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.

The Opportunity

The Quality Engineering team at Carbonite is looking for someone who can help us continue our mission to invest in continuously improving our quality focus. This position will be responsible for the design, development, and automation of new test cases. This includes participation in all aspects of quality initiatives. You will be involved with API automation, UI automation, Manual testing and much more. We have invested heavily in automation and are leveraging languages which include Python, C#, and Java. The ideal person will have hands on experience with multiple Microsoft technologies or experience with Mac devices. We are looking for people who enjoy a challenge and learning new technologies. This position will be part of a team which prides themselves on using some of the latest technologies. The Quality Engineering team's mission statement is to "Transform Carbonite's online Solution and continue our progress of maintaining world class quality solutions."

In this role as a Quality Assurance Engineer you will have an opportunity to be involved in all phases of testing focusing on continuous improvements and working on CI/CD environments. You will be expected to take ownership of testing areas which includes being involved from initial requirements, through designing, automating, and executing test cases. You should have a desire to contribute toour overall test automation strategy and help us as we continue to grow as we invest in CI/CD best practices. We are looking for people who want to learn and are not afraid to ask questions.

In this role you must be flexible and be willing to work on diverse product set. We are working within an agile development environment where priorities and deliverables can change quickly. You will have the opportunity to work on many different areas and technologies. You will have the opportunity to help deliver high quality products and which are being used by almost two million users. You should enjoy working within a team atmosphere where everyone is expected to work together and leverage diverse skills. We all succeed or fail together. This product has a complex, distributed architecture.

Your First Six Months

• Internalize Carbonite's culture and values. This is a key to future success. Then:


• Gain an understanding of the Carbonite solutions, product architecture and typical customer use cases and workflows.


• Become familiar with SDLC process, Agile release cycle and existing Automation Frameworks.


• Learn to use existing QE tool sets and CI/CD process and begin to contribute to automated coverage


• Participate on a scrum team and contribute to test and development activities.

Six to Twelve Months and Beyond

• Become an expert user of the Carbonite / Webroot solutions that you are working with.


• Take ownership of stories and tasks and complete within allocated time frames at a high level of quality.


• Contribute to UI automation efforts and PR reviews.


• Contribute to API level automation efforts.


• Be an active member of the QE team, participating in all aspects of product development and test and help identify issues as early as possible.


• Contribute to improvements in overall process and agility of the QE team.

You Are Great At

• A track record of good judgment and decision-making in positions with significant responsibility


• Highly autonomous and able to independently identify high value projects and drive them completion


• Demonstrated leadership capability in cross-functional team environments


• High degree of comfort with complex technical environments


• Having and being able to articulate/defend an informed opinion on important topics

What It Takes

• Prior software testing skills using Python, C# and .NET framework and/or Java.



• Experience:5-8 years of mostly relevant experience.



• Experience designing, implementing, and debugging manual and automated test cases.


• Experience with UI automation, Selenium or other enterprise level automation framework.


• Hands on experience using a test case management system such as qTest or TFS.


• Experience with test case design methods which support automation and continuous integration.


• Experience with source control such as GitHub.


• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD environments.


• Abundant initiative and ability to rapidly learn from mistakes, not afraid to ask questions.


• Exceedingly strong team/collaborative work ethic.


• Strong communication skills.


• Openness to say"Idon't know,"

Nice to haves

• Familiarity with Data Protection / Backup products - understanding of typical backup use cases and how to test them.


• Experience using one of the major public clouds GCP, AWS, or Azure.


• Experience testing Mac devices.


• Experience with Microservices.


• Experience with Hypervisors, vSphere, Hyper-V systems.


• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher.

At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire the best talent regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sex, age, veteran status or sexual orientation. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process please email accommodationrequests@opentext.com. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws including but not limited to:Family and Medical Leave Act (FLMA),Equal Employment OpportunityandEmployee Polygraph Protection Act