The SendGrid Quality Engineering team has end-to-end responsibility for the SendGrid email delivery pipeline and the SendGrid.com portals/apps/services. Each individual delivery team works closely with the Product Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations to evolve existing sites, services and products and deliver new ones using our ScrumBan Agile methodology.

The major areas of focus for this team include:

• Development of consumer and customer products
• Development of web applications, APIs, services and other technology
• Continuous deployment of quality software
• Security and support of production applications and systems

As a Sr. Software Engineer in Test you will be responsible for ensuring that software and application changes produced meets the user’s requirements, are bug free and do not affect the production environment adversely.

In this role you will also be liaising with Developers, other Software Engineers in Test, Technical Project Managers and Product Owners to flesh out new requirements along with providing meaningful inputs to improve the overall software quality of our products.

You will be working with a small team to deliver software in accordance with the timelines with highest possible quality. 

What You’ll Do

• Lead and influence technical direction on infrastructure and process at the team level and above
• Create detailed test plans, release plan
• Maintain the consistency and quality of the automated testing source code
• Apply concepts from a variety of technical areas to ones own work
• Represent Sendgrid at external events like conferences and meet-ups
• Recommend and champion improvements to our software and product development process.
• Discern and identify hidden requirements during design and implementation
• Drives improvements in code quality within the team

About You

• Solid experience in 2 or more programming languages
• General skill level of proficient and expert across a diverse set of technologies
• Comfortable operating across many functional domains (Email, frontend, backend, etc)
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
• Time management and prioritization and have the ability to work unsupervised or with minimal guidance
• Have varied automated tools experience and the desire and aptitude to continually learn and develop their skills

• Strong experience in working with complex software systems in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages (such as Python, Java or Ruby)
• Automated testing frameworks (such as Lettuce, Cucumber rSpec), testing tools (such as Selenium) is a must
• Good understanding of Agile software development like SCRUM or Kanban
• Proficient in working with databases such as MySQL and ability to write basic to complex SQL queries.
• Understanding of GitHub
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery models using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo or Travis CI
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related discipline
• Typically 6 to 12 years of progressive software testing experience in multiple teams, technologies and domains
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do

SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.