SDET

Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”

Founded in 2009, we continue to be recognized for our intentional culture and tremendous growth (Best Place to Work in Fintech; Best & Brightest to Work For Nationally; and Comparably’s Best Company Culture, Best Career Growth, Best Engineering Team, and Best Places to Work in Dallas, among others). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 19.5M users.

As a remote-first company, most of our positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles, which will be indicated in the Job Title.

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities

● Build and maintain automated test suites for the full tech stack including UI, API, Microservices, and Database. Optimize and stabilize the automated test with guidance
● Contribute to building test automation framework and enhancement. Leverage knowledge of Software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and apply to test suite development and maintenance
● Participate in test tooling evaluation to continuously evolve the tooling strategy to be industry leading technologies. Contribute to the improvement of Quality Engineering processes and best practices, and actively participate in code reviews and quality discussions.
● Perform functional/ regression tests, analyze automated test results, and report defects in a timely and efficient manner to track them to closure. Leverage CI/CD pipeline to support continuous testing and deployment for the automated tests
● Participate in all the Agile ceremonies (sprint grooming, planning, demos). Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and design comprehensive test plans and strategies.
● Create and execute test cases, test plans, analyze test results, and report defects in a timely and efficient manner to track them to closure, leveraging the test management tools. Ensure comprehensive test coverage for all software components.
● Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders within scrum teams to ensure a shared understanding of the definition of done of quality in the SDLC. Perform Release Sign off.
● Provides guidance to Associate SDETs. Helps other SDETs in areas of knowledge
● Follow Alkami’s testing Standard Operating Procedure.
● Other duties as assigned.

Required

● Experience in coding and extensive knowledge on object oriented programming, data structures, etc. in at least one programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, JS or similar
● Extensive experience in one or more open source testing tools such as Selenium,Cypress, Playwright for Web testing, Appium, Espresso for Mobile testing and RestAssured, Postman, HttpClient for API testing
● Ability to contribute to test automation framework using industry best practices such as page-object model, data-driven framework, behavioral-driven development, etc using testing frameworks such as JUnit, NUnit, TestNg, Pytest, or Cucumber
● Hands-on in managing software version control and workflow using Git tools such as Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github, etc. Leverage existing templates to integrate automated tests on cloud devices (Saucelabs/ Browserstack) in the CI/CD pipeline using tools like Bamboo, TeamCity, Circle CI, Gitlab, etc.
● Technical hands-on experience with a variety of test types such as Smoke, Functional, Regression testing, etc. using various test case optimization techniques. Working knowledge of Agile/DevOps development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
● Working knowledge of relational databases (eg: SQL Server, Postgres) and non-relational databases (eg: MongoDB, DynamoDB). Ability to write complex queries including Joins, Aggregate functions, etc.
● Knowledge of White Box Testing practices, including the use of tools like SonarQube, JaCoCO, etc. to assess code quality and coverage
● Understanding of different API architectures such as REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, WCF, and gRPC protocols. Exposure to Microservice architecture, Kubernetes platform, and Service virtualization to improve testability.
● Experience in creating test designs and test plans. Experience with one or more test case management tools (AIO Test, Jira, Zephyr), and reviewing testing metrics and reports including automated test reports (Allure / Extent reports).
● Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills. Ability to articulate test approaches and results, as well as communicate QE processes and reasoning for quality activities within their scrum team.
● Ability to pull Server logs from tools such as Haystack, Kibana. Knowledge of Newrelic, AppDynamics, Charles Proxy, or Crash Analytics

Preferred

● Familiarity of tool analysis, creates proof of concept models, and makes recommendations to support the tools selection process.
● Desire to participate in reviews (walkthroughs) of technical specifications and program code with other members of the engineering team, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality and limitations of systems and applications to the team.
● Knowledge of how to create and set up test scenarios and test data as needed.
● Ability to work with various teams to promote Quality Engineering processes, practices and standardization.

Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.

Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.

Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.

Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.

Alkami Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Alkami is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Alkami are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Alkami will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Alkami encourages applicants of all ages.

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J.D. Power 2024 Mobile App Platform Certification ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer experience benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit jdpower.com/awards.