Strength in Trust

OneTrust's mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn't slow teams down—it should accelerate what's possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.

The Challenge

This is a hands-on role which builds automation scripts for long term product scalability and stability
In this role, the resource is closely working with the product team to understand the functionality being developed and writes robust automation scripts and performance scripts to meet the acceptance criteria
As the resource matures in understanding the breadth and depth of product functionality, the resource should be able to bring in critical thinking to ask the what if questions to strengthen the tests
The role evaluates continuous improvement by improving the effectiveness of the automated tests
This role understands customer use cases and usage models in production to begin incorporating the right tests in the release pipeline
This role begins to understand the dependency models and makes informed decisions to test intelligently
This role begins active engagement in a devops mindset toward rapid deployments and anchors the product scrum team to meet quality deliverables

Your Mission

Participate in daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, and sprint demos
Understand and translate manual test cases into automated tests within the development sprints
Execute and maintain the automation test suite
Evaluate build quality by examining the test results from build acceptance tests in continuously deployed environments, multiple times a day
Define test data and reports for both functional and non-functional requirements
Work with the team to identify gaps, prioritize and resolve issues
Raise defects found during the evaluation and work with the development teams to get them resolved
Collaborate with different functional groups (Development and Operations) to identify gaps, prioritize, and resolve issues
Work with different teams to understand new components being delivered in the pipeline and develop innovative acceptance tests
Work closely with development and operations teams to experiment and fine tune the environment sizing
Participate in various POCs in order to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to the product offerings
Add, maintain and update scripts in existing automation suite, helping with running the suite across various checkpoints in the release cycle
Participate in production deployments, record findings and share insightful feedback with product teams
Adhere to best practices and coding standards
Mentor less experienced resources on the team
Provide support for reports and visuals in the release pipeline
Stay current on modern software development best practices, emerging technologies, and design patterns and contribute to thought leadership efforts
Generate test summary reports for management review
Use strong communication and natural curiosity to provide trusted and highly valuable feedback
Increase the automation footprint by automating the tests prioritized within the team
Shift left by automating in the right levels so that early feedback is provided to the developers
Focus on keeping the testing time to minimum by engaging in building a good test framework that allows for quick feedback
Troubleshoot issues arising from scripts, environment, product and raise appropriate defects
Continuously iterate on keeping the test scripts portable and scalable
Keep the automated tests clean and healthy, allowing teams to depend on these test results
Deprecate noisy and irrelevant tests
Ruthlessly focus on continuous improvement and use every opportunity to provide the right levels of automation
If involved in performance engineering, troubleshooting system health and resources in order to advise scaling
Continuously experiment to use modern technologies

You Are

Is a quick self‑guided, independent learner. Does not depend on the mentor/buddy/manager for repeated sessions. Does enough homework before asking necessary questions
Is productive within a month of joining the company. The team is aware of this individual and begins to include them for more work. Unearths good defects and can ask the right questions
Effective collaborator. Speaks clearly and succinctly in standups and clearly indicates the status of tasks assigned
Great team player, helps find defects, resolve with right test cases and data and can influence the right level of automation
High energy and is very efficient, effective and reliable
The tests written and conducted by the resource is comprehensive and does not lead to too many escaped defects to production
Continuous improvement areas focusing on the right levels of automation
Exhibits the right attitude, devops mindset and shift‑left principles
Creative simulation of problems in production and right test data in internal test systems
Understands the errors in logs and can troubleshoot product issues
Strong oral and written communication. Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative, solve problems independently and supervise others
Proficient communications skills and be comfortable leading meetings as needed
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills and root causes analysis
Passion for high quality work and attention to detail
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical or business field
4+ years of relevant experience working as a developer, automation engineer, SDET or performance engineer
3+ years of experience working in automated test and continuously deployed environments
3+ years of experience in any of the defect tracking tools like JIRA and test tracking tools like Qtest, ALM, Qmetry
2+ years of experience coding in Java and must have strong practical knowledge of OOPs and Core Java principles
2+ years of experience contributing to Test‑Driven Development (TDD) with JUnit, Mockito, Podam, TestNG
2+ years of understanding APIs and automation using tools like Postman, SOAP, or REST Assured
2+ years of experience writing or maintaining performance scripts using JMeter or equivalent tool OR 2+ years of experience with Selenium for automating UI of the application
2+ years of experience in identifying memory leakage, connection issues and ability to test the throttling within the application
2+ years of experience troubleshooting information from logs, use of tools like Kibana, ability to add the necessary monitors and alerts
2+ years of experience in executing scripts under load
2+ years of experience with database testing (SQL/NoSQL)
2+ years of experience working with teams across geos
2+ years of experience with tools such as Bitbucket, Git, Stash, Confluence, JIRA
2+ years of experience in Cloud application development experience (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services)
Passion for high quality work and attention to detail
Superior communication and organizational skills
Familiarity with Agile principles
Continuous Integration/Deployment - DevOps mindset
Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative and solve problems independently

Where we Work

We are embracing an office-first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.

Each role may have specific requirements or flexibility depending on the scope of the position, so we encourage you to verify this with your recruiter during your first interview.

Benefits

As an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you'll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. For more information, talk to your recruiter or visit onetrust.com/careers.

Resources

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Our Commitment to You

When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career.

OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

Sr Principal SDET