Through our publishers, Sovrn Holdings reaches over 200 million people every day, generating over 9 billion ad calls daily. These requests must be processed in less than 250 milliseconds, and result in several petabytes of data on a monthly basis. The exciting technical problems we solve require a world class team and engineering culture to deliver against our mission.

As a Software Developer in Test (SDET), you will empower Sovrn's development teams to solve complex challenges for our publishers by championing testability, code health, infrastructure, and monitoring. You'll own the quality of Sovrn's products, and ensure it by architecting and implementing test automation, tooling, deployment, and measurement frameworks. You'll learn complex systems and leave no stone unturned - from massive data pipelines connecting a global network of servers, to state of the art data analytics, storage, and transformations. Mostly, you'll be someone that helps solve interesting problems and gets things done, and that's something you'll take pride in.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality of Sovrn's products, from upfront product design to deployment and measurement.
• Design and build automated testing frameworks and internal tooling.
• Create testing strategies that demonstrate high contextual understanding of Sovrn's products and their value to our publishers.
• Advocate for best practices in testability, code health, infrastructure, and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Able to design and develop a comprehensive test suite from the ground up in an object-oriented programming language - Java preferred.
• Have experience with automation frameworks, e.g. Cucumber, RESTassured, Spring etc.
• Enthusiasm for developing tooling and tests that proactively address ambiguous and non-deterministic problems.
• The ability to create automation frameworks that cover API endpoints, data streams, and database testing.
• Able to troubleshoot issues and predict challenges related to high-volume, high-velocity ecosystems, e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, Aerospike, Cassandra, Redis, Flink, Spark
• Prepared to demonstrate an opinion on when to apply software quality best practices and tooling.
• Strong ability to articulate technical problems and solutions to fellow engineers and business stakeholders.
• A passion for learning, and a drive to stay current on QA best practices and to be able to implement them into the architecture.

Preferred/Nice to Have Qualifications:

• BS Computer Science or related experience
• 2+ years of automation experience
• Experience testing in Big Data ecosystems
• Proficient Java programming skills

Position Reports to: Manager, QA

About Sovrn

We spend a great deal of our time online. Whether it’s for information, commerce, or entertainment, each of us has come to depend on what we research, discover, and share. Publishers – those who create and curate content – are what makes the Internet great. Yet these publishers practice their craft largely alone, in siloes – without reference points or insightful understanding about where they sit in the grand scheme of things. To add to the challenge, once a Publisher’s content is in the wild, then the task of building engagement, growing a loyal following and enriching the engagement with that following can sometimes feel like shots in the dark or worse, a black box. Moreover, making money from their craft can be a complex task for any independent publisher who might prioritize generating content first and money second.

Sovrn believes that independent publishers are the Internet's vibrancy. As a partner and advocate to tens of thousands of independent publishers, Sovrn provides tools, technologies and services that help publishers (a) make money; (b) get distribution to grow their audience; and (c) access a massive data commons providing extraordinary insights.

The landscape of content networks, adtech vendors, and the myriad of buy-side / sell-side companies can be a complete maze for any reasonable person to decipher. Sovrn cuts through the noise and simplifies things with a basic, straightforward mission:

Help content creators do more of what they want to do – and less of what they don’t

Sovrn is an Equal Opportunity Employer!