JOB SUMMARY AND MISSION

This position contributes to Starbuck’s success be designing, developing, and sustaining new automated test processes, practices, and tools to help ensure quality and ship the next generation Starbucks commerce platform. Recommends quality improvements to automation requirements, development, and execution, and facilitates the development and implementation of test automation frameworks. The team you will be working with is building a cloud hosted platform utilizing true microservices and reactive design principals to support the full suite of Starbucks retail, mobile, and online experiences.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following: 

• Assist in the design and implementation of a distributed test-harness
• Creating test plans and automated tests.
• Ensuring that automated tests are integrated and execute reliably in our CI/CD environments
• Analyzing and reporting on test-results
• Investigating customer impacting issues, filing bugs and driving the issues to resolution.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience in a software QA role (2+ years)

• Experience in software feature and integration testing (2+ years)

• Experience developing robust test automation (1+ years)

• Experience testing REST APIs (1+ years)

• Experience testing cloud hosted services (1+ years)

STRONGLY DESIRED

• Experience developing integrated tests between components and across domains
• Experience developing test automation in Java or Scala
• Experience developing automated tests using or executing on Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker containers
• Experience utilizing AWS SQS, S3, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Akka or Kafka

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES 

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong ability to collaborate and work across teams and disciplines
• Strong software design and test methodology knowledge and abilities
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written forms
• Ability to understand and analyze complex problems and break them into small solvable pieces
• Ability and strong desire to learn new languages, frameworks, tools and platforms quickly

Starbucks and its brands are an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals. 

We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving customers throughout our global communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances. Starbucks Corporation is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at 206-318-0660 or via email at applicantaccommodation@starbucks.com

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