Staff Software Test Engineer

Job Description

The Senior SDET role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow SDETs, reporting into a Tribe QA Engineering Manager. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices. 

Essential Functions

• Strong coding ability in Java and/or Ruby 

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI 

• Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines 

• Strong communication skills: written & verbal 

• Strong understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD 

• Strong knowledge of Containerisation tools, such as Docker  

• Experience with AWS (public cloud) 

• Strong knowledge of Datadog 

• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions, in a micro services environment, across large cloud-native architectures 

• Has designed, developed and evolved the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions 

• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile  

• Comfortable challenging the status quo 

• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs 

• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information 

• The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution and recognise the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders 

• Contract testing experience, ideally with Pact/Pactflow 

• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS)  

• Kafka experience. 

• Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock 

• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services 

 This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Strong API testing skills, ideally in Java. 
Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines 
Strong experience with AWS (public cloud) 
Strong knowledge of Containerisation tools, such as Docker and knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS). 
Strong knowledge of Datadog 
Strong knowledge of mocking tools such as Wiremock 
Contract testing knowledge, ideally with Pact/Pactflow 
Kafka experience