Software Automation Engineer
Position: Software Automation Engineer Location: Broomfield, CO
Revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, Alteryx offers an end-to-end analytics platform which empowers data analysts and scientists alike to break data barriers, deliver insights, and experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. Organizations all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver actionable insights.
Join our team of passionate and hard-working associates, and help make a difference in people’s lives by creating software that enables business users to solve problems using data that were previously thought to be unsolvable, save them days, weeks and months of mundane data prep and blending, and help them truly love their jobs again.
Our ideal candidate is a passionate advocate for our customers, the quality of our releases, consistent improvement in our engineering teams and outcomes, and the usability and performance of our software.
Responsibilities:
· Design and implement software test automation framework that will aggregate existing systems as well as new tools yet to be written
· Estimate work effort
· Communicate status to stakeholders
· Enable framework to be executed in highly scalable manner
· Enhance and extend the automation library and framework
· Write specialized automation tools for use in testing our software platform
· Participate in day-to-day engineering activities as part of an Agile Scrum Team
· Collaborate with Scrum team and analyze user stories to determine test scenarios/acceptance criteria
· Design and improve processes/tools to shorten feedback loop cycle
Qualifications:
· B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
· At least 5 years of experience in software
· At least 2 years of experience in automating complex systems
· In depth understanding of software engineering and automation principles and the ability to apply this understanding to formulate and execute test strategies
· Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and attention to detail
· Proven success in improving software reliability and release predictability
Desired Qualifications
· Experience in successfully designing and implementing an automation strategy
· Experience with testing, development, and deployment of desktop, server, and web applications
· Experience collaborating with multiple departments to achieve successful outcomes
· Experience with Continuous Deployment systems
· Data collection and root cause analysis techniques
· AWS or related experience, AWS certifications are a plus
· Experience automating the deployment of software using tools such as Chef
· Knowledge of at least one of the following scripting languages: Ruby, Perl, Python, or Bash
· Experience with Selenium