Sdet

Summary: Our client, a leader in cutting-edge technology, is seeking a Senior SDET with strong Java coding experience to join their tech team. The role involves building automation platforms and frameworks, with a requirement for SC clearance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development and testing, particularly in an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
• Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer
• Performing exploratory testing at all levels
• Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
• Automating tests for all phases
• Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
• Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR's at the appropriate level
• Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
• Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics, and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them
• Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle
• Working in an Agile team, responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage
• Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment
• Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery
• Able to participate in estimation activities and identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team
• Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously
• Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
• Exposure to command line and scripting languages for OS Linux
• Strong coding skills (OOP, SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.)
• Must be able to unit test the framework built

Key Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience as an SDET
• Strong experience of OOP and SOLID
• Unit testing with Junit
• Experience and knowledge of API testing with coded frameworks and Postman for debug and exploratory testing
• Strong experience with Gitlab and Git
• SonarQube
• Jenkins
• Cucumber - TDD / BDD
• Wiremock - Nice to have
• Jira and Confluence

Salary: £590 per day

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT

Our client is leader in providing cutting-edge Technology and they are looking for a Senior SDET to join their Tech team with stong experience in Java coding (OOP, SOLID). Building automation platforms and frameworks.

Must have SC clearance! (NPPV3 is preferrable)

Experience and Skills

• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience as an SDET
• Strong experience of OOP and SOLID
• Unit testing with Junit
• Experience and knowledge of API testing with coded framworks and Postman for debug and exploratory testing.
• Strong experience with Gitlab and Git
• SonarQube
• Jenkins
• Cucumber - TDD / BDD
• Wiremock - Nice to have
• Jira and Confluence

This role will include but is not limited to:

• Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
• Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer
• Performing exploratory testing at all levels
• Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
• Automating tests for all phases.
• Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
• Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR's at the appropriate level
• Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
• Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics, and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them.
• Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle
• Working in an Agile team, you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage
• Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment.
• Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery.
• Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team.
• Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously.
• Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
• Exposure to command line and scripting languages for OS Linux.
• Strong coding skills (OOP, SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.)
• Must be able to unit test the framework built.

Nice to have

• Mocks and stubs
• Advanced Devops knowledge
• Deep Agile Development knowledge
• Ability to lead projects and design test strategy