KPA exists to help companies keep their workforces safe and healthy. At the end of the day, we succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced the trauma of a workplace accident or an injury.

How do we do it? By offering a unique combination of software, consulting, and training that helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important—their core business. 

Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work, KPA is made up of diverse, vibrant individuals working together for the greater good.

We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for some like-minded people to help us do it. 

Are you interested in using your passion for quality to deliver a high-end product? Are you passionate about delivering high quality software? If you have a desire to work with the latest technology, a professional, team-oriented demeanor, a passion for leading and developing, and are looking for an opportunity to work within a stable work environment with reasonable work hours, KPA’s Sr. SDET position may be the perfect fit for you. 

Position Description:

The Senior Software Development Test Engineer (Sr. SDET) helps deliver the quality and performance of large scale, big data, custom hardware multi-platform software products that includes web, API and mobile application interfaces. Incumbents in this position are experienced, hands on and self-motivated engineer who can work collaboratively in a continuous integration environment. This role involves working closely with Software Developers that includes leveraging shift-left methods to understand a complex domain and product. The Senior SDET focuses on contributing to the development of automated Functional Integration tests and end-to-end tests through open source test frameworks for overall system testing within an Agile environment. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Experience building and maintaining test frameworks
• Tests complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems.
• Creates and maintains automated test cases, executes test suites, reviews and diagnoses reported bugs, and ensures overall system quality prior to a customer release.
• Designs, develops, maintains, and troubleshoots automated suites of tests through continuous integration for value added feedback.
• Works with the engineering teams to derive testing requirements throughout the development cycle.
• Reproduces, debugs, and isolates problems and verify fixes.
• Works closely with software developers to create software artifacts including test plans, test cases, test procedures and test reports.
• Works cross functional areas with internal partner engineering teams in a disciplined agile environment.
• Estimates own testing tasks and works productively with minimum supervision while showing excellent team attitude.
• Represents team leadership and provides technical guidance and training to junior test personnel.




The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience, preferably in either a Software Development Engineer or Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role.
• Must have an understanding and ability to develop code in C#. Strong experience in API testing from SOAP, RESTful is expected. Strong experience with XML, Databases, and SQL.
• Understanding of cross-browser development using core web development tools and technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, BrowserStack). 
• Hands-on experience with Windows, and/or mobile devices.
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to analyze complex problems in large systems.
• Experience with Test processes, open source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in C# with frameworks like Serenity and Selenium is preferred.
• Must be detail oriented, analytical and creative thinker with passion for quality and test automation.
• Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Experience leading ambiguous situations, dealing with technical issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure customer project deliverables.
• Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration systems.
• Experience with tools & applications such as ADO, BrowserStack, SpecFlow, and Git.
• Must have previous experience with requirements, defect, functional, and performance management systems.
• Previous experience with transport ticketing or tolling systems is a plus.
• May be asked to work extended hours where required.

Success Criteria:

• Evaluate and install new software releases, patches, and system upgrades 
• Have experience building and maintaining automation frameworks
• Ability to analyze and report automation metrics routinely
• Attain good mentoring skills
• Possess good communication skills, both oral and written 
• Work well in a team environment as well as independently 
• Exhibit good time management skills, independent decision-making capability, and have the ability to focus on customer service
• Attains solid leadership skills to lead projects and initiatives 
• A commitment to KPA’s core values: Respect, Agile, Helpful, Teamwork, Excellence, Integrity 

Educational Requirements:

• BS or MS degree in in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline such as Science or Engineering is highly preferred
• Additional expertise or equivalent experience may be substituted

Location:

• While this position can sit remotely, preference will be given to candidates within the following geographic regions: Denver/Boulder, CO area who are able to report into our Headquarters in Lafayette, CO; or Portland, OR.
• Candidates who are seeking this position as 100% remote will be held to a high standard of communication and collaboration

Compensation:

• Annual salary ranging between $130-140k
• Bonus potential of 10% annually

About KPA

For over 30 years, KPA has helped 10,000+ clients achieve regulatory compliance, maintain a safe workplace, and save money. 

Business Nuts and Bolts 

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA's software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what's important—their core business.

KPA’s majority investor is a tier-one private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners, which provides -capital and expertise to accelerate growth organically and through additional acquisitions. We’re now in an exciting time of accelerated growth with the promotion of our SaaS solutions. 

Honoring Our Experiences, Building Mutual Respect 

At KPA, we strive to build an environment that respects our talented colleagues’ individual experiences and mutual respect for our customers and partners regardless of color, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. We aim to make meaningful contributions to celebrate our differences and learn from each other, uniting in an open and accepting culture that acknowledges everyone’s physical, workplace safety, and psychological safety.

We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.

KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado's Best Places to Work 2021 by Built In Colorado.

“To be ranked so highly in Built In’s Best Places to Work Awards is a recognition of KPA’s dedication to creating a team of outstanding professionals and our efforts to create a positive and safe workplace culture for everyone,” said Chris Fanning, KPA President and CEO. “I believe we’ve developed a high caliber organization comprised of passionate people who are experts in their respective fields and deliver great value to our customers.”

As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including:

- Medical (both PPO and HDHP plans available)

- Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (dependent on medical plan)

- Dental

- Vision

- Paid Time Off increasing with tenure

- Paid Holidays and floating holidays

- 401(k) match with immediate vesting

- No-cost Basic Life and AD&D Insurance

- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance

- Employee Assistance Program

- Telehealth

- Pet Insurance

KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. 

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