Senior Software Test Engineer in Manchester
Job Description
Job title: Senior Software Engineer in Test (D)\nLocation: Manchester\nDuration: 11 Months (rolling)\nHourly rate: £57.00ph INSIDE IR35 (Via Umbrella Solutions)\nPOSITION DESCRIPTION:\nA 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.\nWe are looking for great engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.\nWould 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?\nWould you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?\nAre you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow engineers?\nYou will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital solutions.\nThis role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development capability within client\nReporting 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.\nYou 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.\nKey Responsibilities\n * Define and implement testing for cloud systems, including platform and APIs in an agile manner\n * Implement testing frameworks and where required utilising automation tools\n * Support issue investigation and resolution\n * Work closely with the SRE team to develop strategies to meet required SLAs and SLOs\n * Define testing quality stages and gates within the software development process\n * Define and Implement testing and release process for cloud systems\n * Implement tests stages in pipelines, testing tool configuration, and scripting where required to implement the test strategy and processes\n * Set quality goals and measurables for the system, devise and ensure the system meets these goals\n * Establish a culture of maintaining continual testing and continual quality in our systems\n * Line management for a junior software developer in test\nSkills\nOur Senior Software Engineers in Test should have:\n * 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\n * Strong experience with tools such as Robot, Selenium, Post Man or Cypress\nWe are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:\n5+ years experience developing and testing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud- applications\n5+ years experience with Java, Python or another OO \nExperience with software quality tools such as SonarQube\nExperience with relational database technologies such as MySQL or similar\nExperienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development and Pair Programming\nExperience with Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues\nStrong programming skills\nExperience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)\nExperience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques\nPrevious involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle\nPassion for mentoring and technical coaching of developers\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\nThe following skills and experience are nice to have:\nExperience in BDD and creating tests using Gherkin syntax\nExperience working with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana\nExperience with Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)\nFamiliarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a NoSQL database engine (Mongo, Neo4j, etc)\nIf you want to know more about this exciting opportunity please review and APPLY NOW