Google Looking For Senior Software Test Engineer – United States at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

5 years of experience in coding, developing test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases, and debugging.

Experience in complete software development life cycle (build, test and release).

Preferred qualifications:
Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

5 years of experience building developer tools that improve developer velocity, code quality, and code health (e.g., compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).

3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

2 years of experience providing technical leadership and leading projects (e.g., test, release, etc.).

1 year of experience working with executive leaders.

About the job

At Google, our philosophy is build it, break it and then rebuild it better. That thinking is at the core of how we approach testing at Google. Unlike roles with similar names at the other companies, Software Test Engineers at Google aren’t manual testers; they write scripts to automate testing, create test designs and tools so developers can test their own code. Senior Software Test Engineers at Google develop the product excellence strategy by integrating feedback from other engineers and product managers, identifying gaps, risk areas, and inefficiencies, and developing the roadmap for product excellence. You’ll be integral in developing the test plans and promoting the adoption of new or enhancing the existing test frameworks across multiple areas, products, or features. You’ll have a huge impact on the quality of Google’s growing suite of products and services.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

Lead the utilization and/or development of automation tools or scripts to improve product and engineering health.

Drive opportunities and facilitate efforts to improve existing test infrastructure or create new test infrastructure to increase efficiency and productivity in test case development, scheduling, or deployment.

Define the test framework, test pre-conditions, and other test control and reporting functions to enable others to test functionality.

Develop test plans based on Product Excellence/test strategies, influencing other engineering teams to increase testing coverage, run tests, and act on the resulting signal.

Participate in product design review with product managers, software/hardware engineers, and other stakeholders to contribute to product design, testability, and implementation.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.