Junior/Mid Level SDET (Software Development Engineer In Test)
Spotlight Sports Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
Junior / Mid level SDET
About the company
Spotlight Sports Group is a media company that focuses on racing, football and sport, with a particular accent on content that informs bettors. The company comprises the Racing Post (which publishes the Racing Post as well as racingpost.com and soccerbase.com), Apsley (which publishes freesupertips.com and myracing.com) as well as ICS, a media services company based in Leeds which provides B2B content for clients as well as publishing consumer websites. Spotlight Sports also publishes pickswise.com, which is aimed at the emerging US betting market. The business employs approximately 450 permanent staff and also hires a large number of freelancers and contractors across its offices in London, Leeds, Bristol, Dublin and the United States
This is the person we need
We are seeking a junior-mid level SDET (Software Development Engineer In Test) to work within the Automation testing team for our web amp; mobile applications and to help deliver a 1st class automation testing framework.
Responsibilities
- Be part of a team responsible for the creation and maintenance of a scalable and robust Test Automation Framework
- Assist in designing and implementing Automation tests (JavaScript) on mobile / web platforms
- Integrating Test Automation into the CI / CD pipeline
- Investigating and helping resolve automation testing challenges
- Defect and issue tracking management with tools such as JIRA
- Follow best practices and processes defined within the team
- Attend daily stand-ups and communicate progress and status to team and QA
- Work with QA lead and senior team members to improve framework and testing coverage
Requirements
- Experience of working with Test Automation Frameworks (Cucumber, selenium)
- Working knowledge of BDD
- Experience in systems QA
- Experience with JavaScript
- Excellent communication skills verbal amp; written
- Working knowledge of OOP and related concepts
- Good understanding of the standard web stack (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Good understanding of mobile application testing (android, iOS, device emulation)
- Good Understanding of Exploratory testing
- Experience of working in an Agile development environment (SCRUM, Kanban)
- Self-motivated team player with a strong desire to learn new skills and grow, whilst also being able to self-manage
Desired
- Strong critical thinking amp; analysis skills to determine where automation can be most optimally and effectively implemented
- Experience of delivery through Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) environments
- Experience setting up and maintaining testing environments
- Experience of non-functional testing
- Knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Experience dealing with AWS services such as Lambdas, elastic containers, etc.
Benefits
The position will come with a competitive salary, bonus, 25 days holiday, Private Healthcare and a great pension. We also give you your birthday off. We think we have an amazing working environment and culture and hope you will do too.