Software Development Engineer in Test
Location: Remote First; office location Moorgate, London (flexible remote working locations within UK/Europe)
Employment type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full time (UK 9-6)
Salary: dependent on experience up to £85,000 + Shares + Benefits
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