POSITION SUMMARY AND TEAM MISSION

This position is a unique opportunity for a strong, quality focused engineer to help build, ensure quality and ship the next generation Starbucks commerce platform. The team you will be joining is building a cloud hosted platform utilizing true microservice and reactive design principals to support the full suite of Starbucks retail, mobile, and online experiences.

This role is focused on testing the integration and interactions between the components of this new platform as a whole as well as with existing Enterprise services feeding data into it. You will own the quality of your feature areas by defining what needs to be tested, developing automated tests, and driving issues you identify to the appropriate resolution.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze upcoming platform feature and service integrations for needed test coverage
• Creating test plans and test cases needed to ensure the quality of these features
• Developing automated tests needed to support new test cases
• Ensuring that automated tests are integrated and execute reliably in our CI/CD environments
• Analyzing daily test results for failures and filing appropriate defects
• Work between platform feature teams and across integration partners to ensure that defects your tests identified are properly prioritized and driven to resolution

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience in a software QA role (3+ years)
• Experience developing test automation (2+ years)
• Experience developing automated tests in an OOP language (1+ years)
• Experience working in engineering teams using agile methodologies (1+ years)
• BA/BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

STRONGLY DESIRED 

• Experience testing REST APIs
• Experience testing cloud hosted services
• Experience developing automated tests for microservices
• 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 Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker containers
• Experience utilizing Cassandra, Akka or Kafka
• Experience working in a production DevOps team

Starbucks and its brands are an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals, including minorities, women, veterans & individuals with disabilities. Starbucks will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all federal, state, and local ordinances.

Starbucks is about more than just a coffee; they're dedicated to employee and community growth. Starbucks even runs a program that pays for their baristas tuition to help them finish their education. That’s why when you launch your career inspired by human connection and the opportunity to become your personal best, the possibilities are endless. SCAP - Starbucks College Achievement Program