Software Development Engineer in Test

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a  Software Development Engineer in Test - this is a fully remote position in UK/EU, as long as the candidates work UK hours. Salary range: 70-85K GBP yearly plus shares plus benefits.  

Location: Remote First; office location Moorgate, London (flexible remote working locations within UK/Europe)
Employment type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full time (UK 9-6)

We are looking for someone to expand and improve our suite of automated acceptance / end-to-end tests, partake in exploratory testing, and contribute to other elements of our testing pipeline.

You will be working as part of the development team, working alongside developers and business analysts to ensure our customers’ requirements are being captured correctly. You will be happy talking to both technical and non-technical people, discussing ideas, pair programming, and keen to expand your knowledge.

In this role, you’ll work and learn alongside a team of highly experienced cross-skilled developers and technology specialists with a wide range of core Java and cloud technologies. You’ll develop your skills by applying them to real-world problems and collaborating with teams across the business to deliver value incrementally and sustainably.

What is the job about:

• Challenging and enriching requirements with regard to test coverage

• Supporting the development team by pairing and enhancing testing infrastructure to facilitate the continuous delivery process

• Proactively identify areas that could benefit from more focus to improve the overall software quality

You will need to have experience with:

• Testing individual components

• End-to-end testing

• Testing failure scenarios

• Object Oriented Programming languages (Java is preferable)

• Exploratory testing

There are other things you may have had some exposure to, we don’t expect that you tick all of these boxes, but they are areas that might be useful to have worked with previously:

• Continuous Delivery

• Managing a Continuous Integration environment

• Exposure to the Extreme Programming framework or Pair Programming

• API Testing (the role is not focused on HTTP testing)

• UI Testing (Selenium)

• Distributed / Event-Driven Systems

• Messaging / network protocols

• Electronic Trading (any asset class - Fixed Income preferred)

Personal skills and attributes:

• Inquisitive and have a talent for “breaking stuff”

• Self-assured, thriving on shaping your role, and being proactive

• Able to communicate effectively both in person and in writing

• Able to work and thrive in a collaborative working environment

• Able to respond and adapt to changing requirements and priorities

• Curious about technology trends and good practice

• Committed to constantly improving software and software development processes

Compensation & Package

Salary: dependent on experience up to £85,000 + Shares + Benefits.