Software Development Engineer in Test - SDET

Highams Recruitment ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £60,000 per annum

Overview

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Become the next SDET for one of the UKs top Fintech businesses that have won multiple awards and are now on a journey to expand rapidly on a global basis. What makes the business stand out? Highly innovative and change focused tech environment DevOps based way of working, focusing on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to speed up releases Local onsite build, dev and test teams all under the same roof Fintech business that is focused on providing better technology to make financial services products more accessible for all of us Big advocates of utilising the best new technologies in the market In the process of migrating everything to AWS cloud solutions and migrating their software to Docker and Kubernetes. API driven business that takes pride in crafting elegant, maintainable and testable code, embracing SOLID principles and TDD Brand new offices designed with agile working and collaboration in mind What are they looking for? You'll have a fantastic understanding of, and experience with, a breadth of testing types and techniques A passion for building and testing bespoke web services in both an exploratory and automated manner Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand business requirements and drive conversations around quality with product owners and business customers experience following the principals of the test pyramid and driving test strategy within the agile team Experience of C#, Java, Ruby or Python, JSON and XML and Test Automation. Experience of using a BDD/ATDD model and documenting test scenarios in Gherkin (GWT) format as well as experience with an object-oriented programming, with source control, CI/CD tools and Cloud technologies Hands-on experience of testing Restful web services and/or asynchronous message-based systems (SNS SQS, Azure Service Bus etc.) using appropriate tools Working experience of cloud technologies (Azure or AWS) Someone who can coach and mentor the team on good testing and QA practices On offer in return is an excellent salary of between £60-65k, bonus, 10% pension, Life assurance, PMI, Income Protection and more