Senior Test Engineer
Burendo, United Kingdom
Job Description
Burendo is a Leeds head quartered delivery and transformation consultancy, specialising in supporting both large and SME organisations to improve their Agile adoption and delivery processes. Making transformation and delivery possible by inspiring people and organisations is our mission. Our clients span multiple industries and countries, and our consultants and coaches use a blend of tools and techniques, obtained through practical experience, to help teams improve the capabilities and outcomes of our clients.
At Burendo, we believe testing is the responsibility of everyone, but we need experienced Test Engineers to help guide our clients in how to ensure quality in a modern, agile environment. We need Testers who can not only do but, importantly, can advocate and evangelise for testing in the right way.
As a Senior Test Engineer at Burendo, you will work with clients to help guide their testing strategy and help them focus on quality. You may be writing automated checks, participating or running 3 Amigos sessions, getting involved with tool selection and pipelines or other activities but your focus is on being an advocate for testing in the right way and leading the strategic quality discussions.
Requirements
Essential behaviours:
These are the most important things to us, we can teach skills, but behaviours are much harder to teach.
- An analytical and questioning mind, rather than taking things at face value
- Able to be pragmatic when needed
- A complete focus on quality at all levels in the software development life cycle
- A great communicator who can have conversations with both technical and non-technical people
- A test-first mindset, rather than sticking rigidly to specific methodologies
- A focus on testing early and testing often
- An understanding of the need to push testing close to the code and a strong desire to create quick feedback cycles
- Strong leadership skills, both internally and with clients
Essential skills
You’ll need some skills to help you pick the role up quickly, but it’s not a long list.
- A strong understanding of being a testing leader in an agile environment
- Experience creating test strategies and collaborating with people to achieve this
- An ability to use automation in the appropriate places
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and experience of continuous testing
- Ability to understand and debug code using IDEs such as Visual Studio or IntelliJ
- Experienced in API testing using tools such as Postman or JMeter
- An understanding of behavioural driven development (BDD) and its benefits and drawbacks
- Experience of source code management
- An understanding of and ability to influence non-functional requirements
- An ability to quickly understand new systems
Desirable skills
These are the little bit extra, cherry-on-top skills that will help you stand out. Still give us a shout if you haven’t currently got these skills though!
- Experience in 3 Amigos sessions
- Experience working within cloud environments, in particular AWS
- Experience working with both SQL and no-SQL databases
- Experience of code analysis tools such as SonarQube
- Experience of building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitLabCI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
- Experience working with performance test tools such as Locust or JMeter
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform
- Experience working with UI automation tools such as Selenium or Cypress
- Working knowledge of unit testing tools for scripting languages such as MochaJS or Jest
- An ability to write automation in at least one of Python, JavaScript, Java or C#
- Understanding of test-driven development (TDD) and when to use it
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- An additional day of paid leave for your birthday
- Monthly budget for you to spend on your wellbeing
- Annual Learning and Development budget
- Paid time off for life events
- Matched Employer Contributed Pension (5%)
- Life assurance based on 2 x your salary, increasing to 4 x upon 2 years service
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Exciting calendar of Burendo social events and activities
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. You and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation
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