SDET – Web

Software Development in Test (Web) | 3 month contract | Outside IR35 | £500 p/day

You should be an established Senior Automation Software Engineer with Quality Assurance and Testing domain knowledge, operating in the DevOps, CI/CD, JavaScript and Node environments, owning and utilising best-in-class testing tools and techniques for Integration tests, Defining and pushing adoption of Unit test strategies, Visual comparison testing, Performance Benchmarking and testing, and End-to-end journey testing, Accessibility testing and Load testing.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hands-on coding, responsible for guiding and implementing the Automation Test strategy within a DevOps environment, and plumbing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborating with Quality Assurance, and Development teams to identify and implement gaps in the testing strategy with Automated scripts.
• Collaborate, coach and mentor other team members whilst maintaining high levels of productivity.
• Understand client’s business goals and objectives in order to build the right technical solutions.
• Minimise technical risk and ensure a high-quality output.
• Identify bottlenecks within delivery processes as they occur and be able to help influence behaviours within the team to help resolve these and protect the technical delivery.
• Operating in Lean and Agile methodologies or Hybrid approaches.
• Technical Documentation for Technical Design, Technical Decisions and Implementation details.

QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS

• Computer Science Degree or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in QA domain.
• 2+ years of experience in applying Automation tools and strategies.
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Level Certification qualification or similar
• Advocate for improvements to processes, quality, and security
• Analytic and positive mindset with a personable and professional approach.
• Sharp attention to detail and a passion for new technology.
• Professional written and verbal communication and reporting skills
• Champion continuous improvement and best in class software development processes.
• Happy to collaborate with developers and take on automation and non automation/tech tasks

You will be a self-starting technologist who can draw parallels across a technology landscape and isn’t restricted by a specific skill set, however below is a list of skill sets we would expect;

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

• Proven experience of creating automation frameworks and tests using testing tools on the JavaScript / Node.js stack (e.g. Cypress, Jest/Enzyme, Cucumber, Selenium, Chai, Mocha, Protractor, Jasmine etc)
• Have implemented visual testing tools such as Applitools / Percy as part of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Cypress and Cypress Dashboard is preferred
• Experience working with Storybook/other component libraries
• NFR Testing strategies and tools for Security and Load testing to Very High Traffic numbers using tools such as JMeter, Load Runner and OWASP.
• Experience in testing CMS based Apps (using Contentful), Next.js/React/Angular Apps
• Experience in testing native iOS and Android Apps
• Experience in developing, integrating and debugging automation tests within Azure Devops CI / CD pipelines

DESIRED CAPABILITIES

• Testing and Automation for Design Systems, Pattern libraries or SDKs.

This is a 3month freelance assignment, with view to extension.