Software Development Engineer in Test

Role Overview

• Champion a shift-left approach to in-sprint testing
• Advocate continuous testing approach within the team
• Promote consistent usage of test pyramid approach to have effective coverage across various test levels
• Guide the team to factor in testing impacts as part of solution design and development
• Pursue automation first approach whilst testing any solution
• Provide automation best practice solution within the product team and drive continuous improvements in our test automation frameworks
• Mentor the wider team members to guide them through the automation journey
• Propose path breaking initiatives within testing to help driver faster feedback loop
• Work as an embedded tester in an agile cross-functional product team
• Identify any potential risks to product quality and plan tests focused on the identified risks
• Design and build robust and scalable test automation frameworks for the entire tech stack and develop test automation in accordance with agile test pyramid and industry best practices
• Create high quality, maintainable, and performant test code
• Manage defects found and work with stakeholders/team to analyse, prioritise and resolve them
• Proactively share knowledge and information with others
• Mentor team on quality assurance and test automation best practices
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers and test on development iterations
• Create documentation around the framework, best practices, and learnings
• Conduct demos and workshops on Automation for wider RI Tech team

Requirements

• Significant experience of automation test approaches and setting up test automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience of developing tests at all levels of agile test automation pyramid
• Extensive experience with quality assurance tools and practices
• Understanding of agile methodologies such as test driven development, continuous integration, agile testing
• Experience of planning, executing and validating tests across the full test spectrum (functional, non-functional, regression, integration, UAT, OAT etc)
• In depth knowledge of Exploratory testing techniques, Rapid software testing and Session based testing, testing heuristics
• Experience of testing complex enterprise applications
• Experience with API testing using tools like Postman and testing frameworks like RestAssured.
• Experience in Service Oriented/Micro-Services architecture
• Experience of working in IaS and PaS
• Experience of Docker containerization and CICD at scale
• Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber-JVM, Appium, Webdriver.io
• Strong coding skills in languages like Golang, Python, Java, or JavaScript
• Object oriented design patterns
• Deeper understanding of HTTP requests, responses, and status codes
• Build tools like Maven, Gradle or similar
• CI Tools like Teamcity, Jenkins or similar
• Cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure or similar
• Project/Issue tracking tools such as Jira
• Agile – Scrum/Kanban
• Github
• Relational(Oracle, SQL Server) and noSQL databases(MongoDB, DynamoDB or similar)
• Test Management tools such as Zephyr, Quality Center, X-ray or similar
• Performance Test Tools such as Load Runner, JMeter, Gatling etc
• Security Test Tools such as ZAP, Nessus etc
• Familiarity with tools like Swagger for API documentation and understanding different API formats like JSON

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• DynamoDB
• Gradle
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• JMeter
• Maven
• MongoDB
• NoSQL
• Oracle
• Python
• Ray
• Selenium
• SQL
• Go

Benefits

• Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!
• Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through the Retail Trust.
• A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill you needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment.
• Flexible working is a given, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.
• Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.
• Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.
• A generous bonus scheme & private pension plan.
• The choice to opt in for healthcare through our provider AXA.
• 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!