Software Development Engineer In Test

About Arkestro

Arkestro's Predictive Procurement Platform applies AI, game theory, and behavioral science to enterprise negotiations. It moves teams away from reactive supplier bidding toward data-driven offers that reduce friction and help both buyers and suppliers reach better outcomes faster.

Arkestro helps procurement teams influence more enterprise spend and uncover savings that traditional sourcing approaches often leave behind by applying predictive intelligence to how sourcing events are designed and executed.

We’re a hyper-growth company looking for people who take ownership and are comfortable working through complexity. This is a tremendous opportunity if you want to do meaningful work and help shape how large enterprises run procurement… Arkestro is a place where you can have a big impact. See Arkestro in action at arkestro.com.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced SDET with a strong test background to continue to help us develop our QE processes and support the team building increased capabilities and enhancements to our Arkestro platform. We need someone  who will be responsible for finding and reporting software defects and identifying discrepancies between specification and system behavior.

Responsibilities

• Build regression automation scripts that support app functionality
• Manually test software for validation and accuracy based on defined set of criteria 
• Execute smoke, regression, integration, performance and other testing types to ensure proper behavior of software 
• Record detailed documentation of feature behavior 
• Record pass/fails conditions of tests and correlates failures to bug identification 
• Identifies and escalates any risk to quality of the product or the process 
• Collaborates with the product team to ensure quality throughout the SDLC and product release cycles
• Collaborates with customer-facing teams to incorporate user feedback in the testing strategy
• Participate in refinement and estimations of effort to promote accurate planning
• Utilize Github to maintain automation repositories, run custom scripts, and facilitate automated quality practices 
• Participate in On-Call rotation

Required Qualifications: 

• At least 5 years experience in a software quality assurance role 
• At least 5 years experience in automated testing 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills