Senior Software Developer in Test / Senior Automation QA

The Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) lives within a squad/tribe of product development, with a line reporting to an Engineering Manager and guidance and technical direction from Product Quality Manager. They work directly with Software Development Engineers and Quality Analysts to understand the features, technical design and this insight allows the SDET to implement automated tests and testing tools to deliver quality delivery with high efficiency. 

The SDET has end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity. They are responsible for complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, grabbing others for help or insight as necessary. The SDET requires very little oversight beyond high-level direction; as complexity of features are delivered, the focus shifts from functional to stability and performance of our product.

⚙️ RESPONSIBILITIES

● Day to Day:

Writing and reviewing code for automated test /tools from the sprint backlog inline with quality assistance guild best practices 

- Assisting in driving squad sprint execution to ensure timelines are met without compromising on quality. 

- Anticipates and communicates blockers or delays for their work (or their squads) before they require escalation.

● Technical Duties:

- Consistently writes production-ready test code easily understood by other software development engineers, SDET and accounts for edge cases and errors. 

- Identify, develop and innovate new automation approaches to continually improve quality engineering process and efficiency. 

- Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical discussions / decisions that impact their team. 

- Ensures their commitments are realistic, understands their priority and urgency, and delivers upon them accordingly.

● Communication & Leadership Duties:

- Communicate within your team in an effective, clear, concise manner in both written and verbal form on technical and non technical subjects. 

- Helps their fellow team members overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. 

- Mentors more junior teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, and empathetic manner.

🛠 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

● Must have at least 5+ years writing UI and API test 

● Must have at least 3+ years commercial experience working with BDD Frameworks for API / Selenium 

● Must have at least 3+ years working with agile development methodologies

🛠 PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

● Team player mentality, quick on their feet, agile, and aren't afraid to speak up and voice their opinion. 

● Demonstrated ability to solve technical problems and implemented innovative solutions 

● Demonstrated experience using BDD framework - Specflow, Cucumber, Geb or similar flavour 

● Experience working with GraphQL. 

● Experience with mobile testing framework is an added bonus 

● Experience with performance testing tools such as Gatling is an added bonus 

● Experience setting up and contributing to CI/CD environments is an added bonus

● Knowledge on Cloud based architecture is an added bonus 

🏆  Why it's great to work with us

• Friendly team members who really love what they do
• Exciting and challenging tasks
• Small team, easy communication, clear vision of what we're striving for
• Decent salary
• $2500 laptop/equipment budget
• Other benefits are discussable

Our company was founded just over a year ago, we are an engineering focused company who move fast and bring things to market quickly.

We’re a small company, only three founders in our team today.

We are small, but have big ambitions.  We are NOT about having a factory-farm of developers, but building a small team of highly skilled engineers who can take and understand complex problems and can solve them, while also asking and challenging when better solutions are available.

We are a flat organisation (well, there's only three of us), but more importantly we value good engineering talent and give them the tools and the support they need.

What we do

We make things. We make things for ourselves, and we make things for others. We do it really well, and we’re really good at helping others do it well too.

We work with startups to get ready for scale. We help scaleups get bigger the right way. We help big businesses transform ideas into products and get them all working in ways they never thought possible.