Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Magnopus, United States
Job Description
Magnopus is a content-focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences across the physical and digital worlds in ways people haven’t experienced yet.
Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.
We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor teamwork more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.
Job Description
We are building products and platforms with a lot of moving parts -- encompassing front end, back end, and middleware -- and covering desktop, mobile, VR, and AR. To ensure robustness and quality in everything we build, we need a skilled Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, create, and own automated testing and test infrastructure.
You’re a pragmatist, a problem solver, and a good communicator. You know how to select the right approach for the job. You will be a founding member of a growing team within Magnopus, so you will not only ensure we get good results up front, but you will also have an opportunity to set best practices that will serve us for years to come. Because of this, we are looking for someone with a substantial track record of success and a growth mindset. As needs evolve, the test infrastructure will be ready to evolve as well.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, creation, maintenance, and evolution of test infrastructure encompassing unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and other forms of automated quality assurance. If you’re ready to be the one to make key technology decisions -- decisions backed by evidence and a strong rationale -- this is your opportunity
- Help engineers across multiple teams understand, use, and contribute to test infrastructure, so that it doesn’t all sit on your shoulders alone
- Troubleshoot build failures, test failures, and other faults at all levels of our software stack
- Partner with QA to identify opportunities for automation or diagnostic tools to make manual testing more efficient and effective
- Assist development and QA teams in black box and white box testing of client application features
Requirements
Baseline
- Great communication skills and desire to work in a collaborative team environment
- Strong debugging skills and an insatiable desire to fix problems
- Strong programming and scripting skills in the context of build and test frameworks
- Close familiarity with NUnit, Visual Studio Test Tools, Unity Test Runner, or similar frameworks
- Previous experience (+4 years) with software testing within a technical industry, especially in the context of video games, technology driven media/entertainment, or AR/VR
- Previous experience (+2 years) overall SDET and/or development experience, ideally within video games or AR/VR
Bonus Points
- Knowledge of multiple programming languages, especially C#, C++, and Python
- Experience with Unity, Unreal, or other game engines
- Experience with profiling tools
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with QA methodology and tools
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Have shipped at least one commercially released application as part of a team, preferably through a full development cycle
- Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, and test execution
Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:
- Mission:ISS
- Disney Pixar Coco VR
- Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
- The Lion King - Virtual Production
Benefits
Magnopus employees enjoy a competitive benefits package as well as some amazing perks:
- Meaningful, purpose-driven work
- Great teammates
- 100% employer paid premiums on health, dental, and vision Insurance
- Generous vacation amp; paid time off
- 401(k)
- Flexible Remote working plans (particularly during Covid events)
- Top of the line te