Software development Engineer in Test - SDET3

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.

Become a better developer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive

Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack?

Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events, and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun, and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details:

Our Test Engineering team is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and test 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.

You’ll spend time on the following:
- Architect 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, trends and methodologies and enhance existing
systems and processes
- Act as test lead in various work streams working closely with PMs, devs and
collaborate across teams
- Help define and improve our testing and release processes
- Mentor other SDETs on 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

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

We’re excited about you if you have:
- MTech or BTech in Computer Science and equivalent experience

- 6+ years experience in production software development and testing
- You have experience with one or more object-oriented programming language, like Java, C# ,C++, or Ruby
- You have hands-on experience with test frameworks like Selenium, 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.

Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings (and a sneak peek into life at Groupon), always check our official career website at grouponcareers.com.