Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and enhance automation frameworks across the entire stack: Component, Integration, Contract (Pact), E2E, and Performance/Load testing.

• Collaborate with development teams during refinement, build, and release stages to incorporate quality criteria into sprint planning and definitions of done.

• Provide coaching on automation, testability, observability, and quality-first design principles.

• Ensure our pipelines are efficient, dependable, and CI-native by implementing significant quality gates and minimizing feedback loops.

• Recommend architectural enhancements to improve testability and advocate for patterns that facilitate robust contract testing.

• Enhance our monitoring and alerting standards and participate in incident post-mortems to convert ‘learnings’ into automated safeguards.

• Utilize DORA metrics to offer insights into quality trends and foster continuous improvement.

• Take initiative to advance the organization-wide quality strategy, designing the overarching architecture of our testing ecosystem and mentoring junior engineers.

• Serve as a thought leader to guide development teams, promoting 'quality-first' design to boost delivery speed and enhance engineering maturity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Recent professional experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or a similar role.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Java, TypeScript, or comparable modern programming languages.

• A proven history of designing and maintaining multi-layered automation frameworks, including Component, Integration, Contract (Pact), E2E, and Performance/Load testing.

• Practical experience in constructing CI/CD pipelines, integrating automated quality gates, and optimizing for rapid, parallel feedback loops.

• Ability to independently troubleshoot application issues, influence product design to enhance testability, and proactively guide engineers on best practices for unit and component testing.

• Capability to propose architectural system design improvements that augment testability, observability, and logging in cloud-native environments.

• Enthusiasm for monitoring and alerting standards, with experience in transforming incident learnings into systemic, automated safeguards.

• Strong communication skills to effectively coach development teams, promote ‘quality-first’ design, and enhance engineering maturity.

• Demonstrate thought leadership in the quality domain, focusing on improving delivery speed while upholding quality standards.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and life insurance.

• 33 days of holiday (including public holidays) plus Birthday Leave.

• Remote-first working culture that respects your other priorities.

• Family private healthcare and an Employee Assistance Programme.

• A culture that champions career progression and invests directly in your learning and development.

• Regular team events and social activities to keep our remote team connected.