Automation Engineer — Synechron, Charlotte, NC

We are

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,500+, and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets.

Our challenge

We are looking for a meticulous SDET to contribute to and review the creation of designs for production software. The SDET's responsibilities include both software development and testing tasks and focuses on the testability, robustness, and performance of production software. As such, an SDET is a test professional with advanced programming skills who can create automation testing tools and frameworks to assist the manual testing process.

The Role

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.

• Understanding project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.

• Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.

• Investigating customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports.

• Handling technical communications and understanding the customers' systems.

• Working with deployments teams, resolving level issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.

• Noting all testing actions you have performed in daily and weekly reports.

• Analyzing and disintegrating software systems and coordinating with other teams to enhance the overall design.

Required Skills:

• Programming Languages: It is required to have proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, etc.

• Test Automation: Must have strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining automation test suites using frameworks like Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Appium, etc.

• Database Skills: Must be familiar with database management systems such as MySQL, and PostgreSQL and must have a basic knowledge of SQL for querying databases and verifying data integrity during testing.

• Web Technologies: Must be familiar with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• CI/ CD Tools: Must have experience and capability to integrate automated tests into CI/ CD pipelines and must have experience with deployment tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, etc.

Nice to Have:

Experience with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI) or custom LLM orchestration.

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.