SDET

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks from scratch or extend existing ones.
• Define and uphold the standards for test quality, ensuring consistency and confidence in our releases.
• Write high-quality, maintainable integration and end-to-end tests that follow production engineering standards.
• Build reusable test utilities, mocks, and simulators.
• Contribute to and help evolve the overall test strategy for one or more products or services.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from day one and not as an afterthought.
• Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing, and regression coverage.
• Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration into our CI/CD pipelines.
• Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, helping teams keep them lean, relevant, and valuable.
• Actively test front-end, back-end, API, and distributed microservices using tools like Playwright, Jest, Supertest, Cypress, Postman, RestAssured and other modern frameworks.
• Perform and organise performance testing with tools such as K6 JMeter.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration are properly tested.
• Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support manual QA, and sign off on changes.
• Investigate defects and production issues; ensure fixes are validated through automation.

Requirements:

• Computer Science or Information Technology degree, Diploma or similar CSTAE or ASTQB ISTQB Advanced Certification.
• Certified automation tester (i. e., Cypress, Playwright).
• Familiarity with pipeline and event-driven systems (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, queues, streams, Snaplogic).

Non-negotiable:

• 4+ years' experience in test automation.
• Strong hands-on experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks and API testing tools, not just executing them.
• Confident in writing automated tests in TypeScript.
• Expertise in designing and executing end-to-end test strategies that align with Agile delivery.
• Solid experience embedding quality early in the SDLC by working closely with the product managers, engineers, principal engineers, and delivery managers.
• Experience working in agile continuous delivery teams, including daily coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate, prioritise, and drive resolution of defects based on reproducibility, business impact, and release scope.

Personal Attributes:

• Quality mindset: Deeply values software quality and strives for continuous improvement across teams.
• Collaborative nature: Works well and constructively challenges engineers, product managers, and delivery managers to embed quality early in the SDLC.
• Proactive attitude toward continuous improvement, always seeking better ways to optimise automation.
• Critical thinker: Approaches testing with curiosity and rigour; digs deep to uncover root causes.
• Adaptability: Comfortable with change and able to pivot priorities in fast-paced, agile environments.
• Detail-oriented: Thorough in reviewing test cases, strategies, and outcomes without losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Ownership-driven: Takes responsibility for the overall health of the QA process and quality outcomes.
• Learner: Willing to learn and adapt as systems and tools evolve.

Skills

API, API Automation, API Testing, Microservices, Rest Assured, RestAssured, Typescript, service