Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with 5,000+ employees and ~24,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship – a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.

Internships at Cvent

Cvent’s paid internship gives students hands-on experience and direct mentorship that supports their professional development and career growth after college graduation. Interns are exposed to the inner workings of an industry-leading software company while taking ownership of projects that contribute to the company’s continued success. Interns may receive an offer for full-time employment after graduation.

As a Software Engineer in Test Intern at Cvent, you will be a member of an agile team environment and you will learn, practice, and drive the software quality best practices we use that help make our software the industry leader. Coordination, planning, execution, automation scripting and driving root cause and corrective actions are only a few of the many activities your work will entail.

Cvent fosters an environment that focuses on continuous self-improvement and learning. By joining you will be given an opportunity to flourish in your new role. You will be welcomed by like-minded team members and mentored by management that is eager to assist you in your professional development.

You will sit within our Quality Engineering team, and work with Software Engineer Sprint teams, but rather than coding 24/7, you will do functional, automation, performance, and security testing. Beyond testing, you will use your coding skills to debug scripts, automate processes, review developer designs, and more!

• Work on enterprise software solutions, where performance, reliability and scalability are critical design goals necessary to run large-scale events.
• Serve as subject matter expert for complex automated testing application design and development issues.
• Participate as an expert in software redesign process assessing software development projects for quality assurance factors affecting functional requirements and design specifications.
• Create automation testing strategies, leveraging knowledge of industry-standard software development principles.
• Review testing documentation, develop testing standards, define criteria for testing, analyze test results, and present results to developers.
• Develop automated, high-quality test code and scripts utilizing industry-leading tools and frameworks, such as JUnit, Mockito, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, Postman, etc.
• Integrate test code into the CI/CD pipeline, review and monitor test results, and work with developers to fix and resolve identified issues.
• Provide input to systems and applications developers on testing automation procedures and requirements, schedules, or potential problems.
• Perform maintenance and upgrades to existing test environments.
• Collaborate with product owners, development leads and other stakeholders to understand product specifics and create corresponding test strategies.
• Coaching and mentoring cross-functional scrum teams in automated testing and CI/CD.

We care more about your attitude and aptitude than the specific tools and technologies you have used in the past. You need to have a strong passion for software quality and must take pride in the software the team is producing.

In addition to this, our ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:

• Full-time college student with plans to graduate in May 2027 (summer between Junior & Senior year)

• Ability to work 40 hours per week for 10 weeks

• Ability to commute to our headquarters in Tysons Corner, VA

• Bachelors or Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, or related technical degree.
• GPA of 3.0 or Higher
• Able to code comfortably in Java, and other modern programming languages.
• Experience with scrum, Oracle, databases, and integration testing
• Strong verbal and written communication skills as you will be presenting complex IT concepts and project metrics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• PLEASE NOTE: This position cannot offer any sponsorship, or exception to the graduation dates listed.

Most importantly, a successful candidate will be passionate about technology. Keeping up with the latest advancements in the industry; spending time creating, building, and exploring technical projects; an inquisitive attitude in regard to the workings of hardware and software; and overall, simply having fun and finding enjoyment in the field.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.

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