Description
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Job Purpose
Our Life Insurance Client is seeking a talented Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who is passionate about Software Quality, has an Agile Tester mindset and a track record for building effective automation frameworks. Our SDETs have an in-depth knowledge of Testing Best Practices as well as a strong programming background with the ability to design and execute optimal test strategies that leverage our automation capabilities to maximum effect. As a Senior SDET, this role will involve mentoring and supporting the more junior SDETS within the team and working closely with the Quality Practice Lead to ensure the optimal test tooling and approaches are being leveraged across the delivery teams.
Key Accountabilities
1. Define the test strategy for new functionality focusing on achieving the optimal test approach for all functional and non-functional scope
2. Responsible for all areas of test automation, including building maintaining and documenting adopted Test Automation Frameworks
3. Develop, automate and maintain highly effective test cases leveraging automation to optimise test cycle times and the lead time for delivery of new functionality
4. Ensure comprehensive and transparent test coverage for new and existing product features
5. Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices
6. Responsible for application integration testing with all required systems, databases and services
7. Works closely with the Software Engineers to understand the codebase and the unit test coverage and to ensure the testability for a given feature
8. Responsible for working with the Product Owner to understand business requirements and carry out quality assurance checks on the developed solutions
9. Work as part of a Scrum team using Agile practices and adhering to the values and principles
10. Promote testing best practices within the Delivery team
11. Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and working on continuous process improvement initiatives within the Life insurance client Quality Practice
12. Mentor the more junior SDETs within the team and ensure they are following testing and coding best practices
13. Recommend, augment, and implement the usage of proven automation tools, technologies and techniques that can be leveraged across the Delivery teams in collaboration with the Quality Practice Lead
14. Define and leverage stubbing/mocking approaches where feasible to ensure robust automation suites are in place that provide quick feedback
15. Automation peer code reviews
Key Strengths
Excellent database testing experience in the areas of functional, load, capacity and performance
16. Analytical and can analyse unit test coverage reports and collaborate with the Software Engineers to ensure any unit test coverage gaps are identified and addressed
17. Proven ability to create robust and stable automated integration/functional/regression tests with transparent reporting on the automated coverage
18. Strong programming background with Java (8 + preferable) with experience building automation frameworks for both API and UI tier validation
19. Demonstrate experience working in a test-driven environment with continuous integration pipelines managing the orchestration of feature and regression test packaging & execution
20. Demonstrate hands on experience of testing code quality & metric production & the implementation of quality gates
21. Previous experience mentoring and providing guidance and support to the junior members of the team
22. Agile tester mindset and approach that has experience defining test approaches that maximise the Return in Investment from automation and enable Continuous Delivery
23. Strong communication skills and the ability to influence the Delivery Team on Software Quality best practices and ensuring testable high-quality software
24. Proven ability to assess inefficiencies in testing strategies and the successful execution of improvement initiatives
Technologies & Frameworks
25. Hands on experience of database script management using Redgate, Datical, MS SQL Server or other Relational Database
26. Networking & Communication Protocols – DNS, TCPIP, UDP, HTTP HTTPS, SSL, FTP, SCP, SOAP & REST
27. Languages – Java, MS SQL, Powershell & Bash
28. Testing Frameworks/Tooling – BDD, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, JQuery, Selenium, Serenity & Mockito
29. OAuth, SAML, SMTP, MAPI
30. Version Control Systems – Azure Devops Git
31. Build Automation Tools – Jenkins
32. Build & Dependency Management Tooling – Gradle, Ant & MSBuild
Essential Skills
33. Experience of writing a test framework or at a minimum maintaining one.
34. Experiencing owning and defining the test strategy for new features and breaking it down into the corresponding test types and building and executing an effective automation strategy for these
35. Experience of using an automated maven build, to trigger tests
36. Excellent knowledge of the maven lifecycle
37. Good Java development Skills and experience of writing unit, integration and BDD Tests
38. Experience of writing BDD Test suites with Gherkin, Cucumber and Junit
39. Experience of best of breed practices in relation to test delivery
40. Has worked in highly automated CI/CD environments
41. Excellent java and git skills
42. Has written automated tests using one of the following Frameworks/Libraries: Serenity, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured
43. Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desired Skills
44. Previous experience working in Financial Services
45. Written and/or oral German language
46. Has experience of using Jenkins, for build and release management
47. Good knowledge of best of breed practices in relation to build management and release management
Personal Strengths
48. The candidate needs to be a self- starter and implement best of breed testing solutions within the boundaries of the integration patterns, architectural principles and guidelines provided. They must be a team player and provide guidance, training and assistance to other members of the team
49. Passionate about Quality with a continuous drive for improvements
Necessary Qualifications / Skills
50. Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role
51. 3rd level qualification (honours degree), preferably in a related discipline
Behavioural Competencies
Communication and Influencing
Leadership
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Planning and Organising
Team Working and Cross Functional Collaboration