Senior Software Test Engineer

Manchester
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Job title: Senior Software Engineer in Test (D)

Location: Manchester

Duration: 11 Months (rolling)

Hourly rate: £57.00ph INSIDE IR35 (Via Umbrella Solutions)

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

A Senior Software Engineer in Test with a passion for quality, and proven experience of automated software testing, is required for a variety of digital projects being delivered for Luxury Automotive client based in Manchester.

We are looking for great engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.

Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative start-up environment, but also enjoy the security, resources and influence of an established and successful organisation?

Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?

Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow engineers?

You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital solutions.

This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development capability within client

Reporting to the Principal Software Engineer in Test and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be a valued member of the Global Digital Development Centre team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives, with a focus on testability, robustness, security and performance for exciting new projects.

You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and will be expected to take on some mentoring and coaching of less experienced engineers in the lab as well as contributing to process improvements in the lab.

Key Responsibilities

* Define and implement testing for cloud systems, including platform and APIs in an agile manner

* Implement testing frameworks and where required utilising automation tools

* Support issue investigation and resolution

* Work closely with the SRE team to develop strategies to meet required SLAs and SLOs

* Define testing quality stages and gates within the software development process

* Define and Implement testing and release process for cloud systems

* Implement tests stages in pipelines, testing tool configuration, and scripting where required to implement the test strategy and processes

* Set quality goals and measurables for the system, devise and ensure the system meets these goals

* Establish a culture of maintaining continual testing and continual quality in our systems

* Line management for a junior software developer in test

Skills

Our Senior Software Engineers in Test should have:

* 5+ years experience in automated software testing in an agile and DevOps culture, with deep knowledge of the STLC and a real passion for quality

* Strong experience with tools such as Robot, Selenium, Post Man or Cypress

We are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:

5+ years experience developing and testing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications

5+ years experience with Java, Python or another OO language

Experience with software quality tools such as SonarQube

Experience with relational database technologies such as MySQL or similar

Experienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development and Pair Programming

Experience with Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues

Strong programming skills

Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)

Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques

Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle

Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of developers

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The following skills and experience are nice to have:

Experience in BDD and creating tests using Gherkin syntax

Experience working with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

Experience with Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)

Familiarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a NoSQL database engine (Mongo, Neo4j, etc)

If you want to know more about this exciting opportunity please review and APPLY NOW

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