Principal SDET

Nuance is the pioneer and leader in conversational artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. We deliver solutions that understand, analyze, and respond to people, amplifying human intelligence to increase productivity and improve security. With decades of both domain and AI expertise, we work with thousands of organizations across a wide range of industries. 

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Join our team! At Nuance, we are constantly reinventing how people connect with technology and with each other. Our AI-powered solutions empower organizations to transform “business as usual.” For decades, the world’s leading financial, healthcare, telecommunications, retailers, and government organizations have trusted Nuance to bring them award-winning solutions that deliver more meaningful outcomes and empower a smarter, more connected world. From clinical speech recognition technologies that free physicians to spend more time caring for patients to real-time intelligence that powers billions of customer interactions, we’re deeply committed to helping organizations push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Contribute to Nuance's market-leading speech recognition applications that allow healthcare providers to complete their clinical reports in minimal time so that they can spend more time with their patients and so that their institutions receive the highest reimbursement as a result of well-structured and comprehensive reports. Contribute to Nuance's flagship products including Dragon Medical One and PowerScribe One. Work on Nuance cloud-hosted speech recognition server and client applications delivering real-time speech recognition to over 300K healthcare providers in the US alone. 

The Principal QAA Engineer focuses on testing cloud-based services and SDKs. The selected candidate will be responsible for reviewing, improving, and extending our existing test frameworks and working within the team to implement new ones. This will include developing, documenting and presenting the latest in QA automation to the R&D team. Additionally the candidate will be required to work with other members of the development and QA teams using the Agile software development process. The candidate should have strong coding, testing and troubleshooting skills, and be a quick learner and willing and able to take on new challenges. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement new functionality within our existing acceptance, performance and load test frameworks
• Develop new test frameworks in the server and client SDK space
• Create testing strategies for new features
• Function as an active member of an Agile Scrum team
• Ability to understand and review requirements documents for test plan development
• Create/Update and execute test cases that provide full coverage on new and changed functionality
• Ability to set up and deploy testing environments using various tools including VMs and CI/CD pipelines
• Use and develop troubleshooting techniques that minimize the turnaround time of issue identification
• Report defects in JIRA in a clear and concise manner in order to support the team in troubleshooting root cause
• Analyze product logs and parsing logs with scripting tools
• Ensure product meets all relevant requirements and Nuance quality standards
• Perform tasks related to product security validation, including analyzing the results of penetration tests and Veracode scans
• Educate scrum teams on how to use the tools and framework you've developed
• Promote best practices for automated testing within the organization by reviewing pull requests and participating as a member of the QA Automation Community of Practice

Qualification:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science preferred.

Experience: 10+ years

Required Skills:

• C#, Java
• NUnit
• YAML-based pipeline
• Strong experience with programming languages ( c# or Java)
• Strong experience with developing automation frameworks.
• Good undertanding of mutithreaded environment and server side testing.

Preferred Skills:

• Performance Testing
• Strong experience with a scripting language (Python, Powershell, etc.)
• Load Testing
• Security Analysis
• Workflow tools:
• WinAppDriver
• NUnit
• Silk Central
• Fiddler
• Postman
• qTest
• Selenium
• MS Test
• SonarQube
• Veracode

Nuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment. We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.