Summary:

We are looking for a senior SDET to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications. The SDET role is pivotal to the team, providing technical testing capability within the team to ensure the team can deliver rapidly with the highest levels of quality that we expect from our products. As an SDET you will work alongside other engineers as part of a close-knit Scrum team to ensure our products meet agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

The Role:

The Senior SDET role involves the following activities:

• Define test strategies to support the development of major new features or of new applications,
• Design, implement and document test environments and frameworks supporting the agreed strategy,
• Work with the Product Owner to define User Stories and acceptance criteria,
• Define technical test plans focused on extensive automation covering all levels of the test pyramid,
• Develop unit, integration, system, and end-to-end tests in an automated fashion,
• Develop performance, load, stress, and soak test solutions,
• Execute a wide range of functional/non-functional tests, manual and automated,
• Review and debug product and test code to find defects or performance bottlenecks,
• Support the Product Owner to close stories, confirming acceptance criteria and defect fixes,
• Analyse test data and produce test reports for relevant checkpoints or milestones,
• Participate in Agile/scrum activities (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices,
• Participate in software design meetings and work with software engineers to ensure testability and best practices are built into the product architecture and code,
• Investigate new test tools/methodologies and integrate them as part of the team practices and continuous integration processes, also liaising with other teams to share knowledge and best practices.