Software Development Engineer in Test II

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

Our Test Engineering team is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and testing of our products in a high-visibility, high-impact part of the Tech organization. We strive to be trailblazers when it comes to implementing custom test automation solutions for our platform architecture. We follow engineering best practices to maintain performance standards when developing Tooling and Test infrastructure to support quality initiatives. As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will work on the Groupon platform and integration with the backend services to ensure high reliability, availability, performance, and operational readiness of the Groupon platform.

So who are we looking for? You’re passionate about finding and fixing problems and getting great results. You love building automation and tools that allow us to increase our test coverage, automate processes and speed up our release cycles. We like to catch issues as early as possible in the development process. You have an incredible eye for detail and love working with a group of highly talented engineers.

Our development ecosystem:
· Languages: Java, Groovy, Angular
· Frameworks/Tools: Spring, Swagger, Vertx, DropWizard
· CI/CD: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins
· GitHub, JIRA

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Develop and implement automation frameworks that allow us to validate RESTful services.
• Work on test tools that are leveraged across the company for test data creation, monitoring, compliance testing, etc.
• Research emerging test tools, and trends. and methodologies and enhance existing systems and processes.
• Help define and improve our testing and release processes.
• Hands-on with test methodologies, test automation, coding standards, and best practices through code reviews and designing test plans
• Provide support for platform-related issues; triage and troubleshoot issues reported by other teams to help with early resolution

We’re excited about you if you have:

• · M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science and equivalent experience
• · 4+ years experience in production software development and testing
  · You have experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages, like Java, C#, C++, or Ruby
• You have hands-on experience with test frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, RSpec, etc.
• You’re proficient in writing REST API automation tests including client generation, customizing request payloads, request/response logging, response verification etc.
• You have CI/CD experience; including exposure to build tools such as Maven,
  Gradle, Jenkins/Travis, GOCD, etc.
• You have sound knowledge of applying computer science concepts (efficient design patterns, algorithms, and data structures)
• You have a clear understanding of testing methodologies and best practices
• You’re an expert in writing unit, integration tests, and system level tests
• You have solid communication and collaboration skills

We value engineers who are:

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
• Obsessed with quality: Your production code just works & scales linearly 
• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to
  feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.
• Fast learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.
• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.
• Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

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