Software Engineer in Test (Experience Automation)
Hi, we’re Nexthink. We’re not just the leader in the digital employee experience category, we invented the category. Our solutions combine real-time analytics, automation and employee feedback across all endpoints to help IT teams delight people at work. Our cloud-native platform pinpoints issues and solutions, automates response, and helps companies continuously improve their employees’ experience, making them more productive, efficient, and happy at work. We have millions of endpoints deployed, we’ve surpassed $100M in ARR, and we’ve recently secured $180M in Series D financing for a company valuation of $1.1B, but we’re just getting started.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer in Test with a strong desire to learn and innovate – to help challenge the status quo and to be very eager to develop new skills to help Nexthink stay on the leading edge of digital employee experience. The candidate should be heavily motivated by both the product and technology stack. This is a unique opportunity to design, build, and operate distributed systems at scale.
Inside the Nexthink Engineering department, the team you will be joining is called Experience Automation– where you will participate in building a powerful experience automation workflow platform. You will be working on cloud native, open-source, event driven microservices architecture.
Nexthink’s mission is to delight people at work and your contributions will impact the work-life of millions of workers. As a Software Engineer in Test at Nexthink, we expect you to ensure that the delivered software is of the highest quality, fulfilling both functional and non-functional requirements. Your testing experience and mindset will play a crucial role to the overall stability and success of both Act and the Nexthink platform at large.
You are highly motivated, result driven, and detail oriented. You have a high sense of product ownership, constantly learning and enhancing your skills and understanding of computer science. You are familiar with the concepts and patterns described in the Reactive Manifesto, and terms such as CAP theorem, consensus protocols, strong vs eventual consistency, backpressure, bulkheading, circuit breaker, split-brain, and event-sourcing are your bread and butter. You are pragmatic, open to feedback, accountable, and a team player.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of an extremely dynamic, Silicon Valley like, unicorn company. We look forward to meeting you!
Job Duties:
- Participate in the definition of each feature, making sure we always start with a clear set of acceptance criteria that leads to a concise test plan
- Create tests (with the help of the team) to validate the above assumptions
- Expand our automated tests to cover component testing, integration, E2E, Performance testing, among others.
- Decisively pitch in to improve our strategy for test automation
- Handle L3 support requests (together with the rest of the team)
- Contribute to the overall product’s architecture and design
- Participate actively in the technology roadmap
- Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices and participate actively to the different ceremonials
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in Test
- Good OO & Functional programming skills & distributed computing know-how
- Experience on testing APIs and defining component tests. Knowledge of mocking tools for APIs
- Experience with load/performance/stability/stress testing. Knowledge of tools like Locust , Gatling, AB or similar
- Experience on working with CI tools like Jenkins
- Experience in coding and scripting in one or more programming languages (Java, node.js, typescript, python, go, bash, etc)
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka is a highly valued
- Experience with relational (Postgres). Experience with NoSQL datastores or column-oriented datastores such as ClickHouse is a plus
- Experience with GraphQL, Micronaut, AWS, and New Relic is a plus
- Strong motivation for complex challenges and learning new technologies
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Mind-set oriented towards continuous improvement, lean thinking and high-quality work
- Professional-level English spoken and written
Additional Information
We are 800+ employees strong in 21 countries across 8 different time zones speaking 60+ languages. We are positive, we get things done, we keep growing, and we are one team, we are Nexthink. We believe actions are stronger than words when it comes to diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace. Nexthinkers are multinational and multilingual, and come from all walks of life. We are committed to hiring a genuinely representative workforce that can create solutions and foster innovation for the modern digital employee experience.