Mid-Senior Software Development Engineer -Test Automation
Spotlight Sports Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
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 460 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
As a Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be able to develop, execute and maintain software to test our products. You will have strong technical abilities that enable you to help improve and maintain product quality. You should have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance, experience with automated frameworks, knowledge of object oriented design principles. You should have experience in mentoring colleagues as well as being able communicate clearly and effectively. You will be able to define automation cases (BDD Gherkin, feature files) as well as knowledge of tools for delivering or supporting unit, functional in a programmatic manner. You should be able to identify issues and propose improvements to our existing processes, test framework tools and tech stack in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency. You will have a willingness to learn new skills and technology as well as an inquisitive nature with a critical eye for detail.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain scalable and robust Test Automation Framework
- Designing and implementing Web and mobile focused Automation tests (Webdriver.io, JavaScript)
- Integrating Test Automation into the CI / CD pipeline (Jenkins)
- Develop and integrate mocks/stubs to facilitate integration testing (Wiremock)
- Set up and maintaining testing environments
- Assist in Identifying, investigating and solving testing technical challenges
- Defect and issue tracking management with tools such as JIRA
- Mentoring and sharing the tools and frameworks you create with the wider development and quality engineering team Help drive best practices and processes across the team
- Manage Stories and Tasks assigned in order to help maintain team delivery and velocity
- Peer review colleagues code submission in line with Best practices
Requirements
Must Have
- Considerable experience in a role with a focus on automation testing on web platforms
- Good workplace experience of Test Automation Frameworks and their component parts (Cucumber, webdriver.io, Appium) Proficient at writing, reviewing and maintaining feature files (BDD, Gherkin)
- Knowledge of automated testing using design patterns and principles (POM, Screenplay)
- Good understanding of Object-oriented programming (OOP) and related concepts
- Strong understanding of the standard web stack (HTML, CSS, Javascript, REST API)
- Experience and understanding of Exploratory testing
- Experience of working in an Agile development environment (SCRUM, Kanban)
- Design, develop and execute component, Integration, End-to-End and smoke tests using UI automation testing best practices
- Critical thinking amp; analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills verbal amp; written
- Good understanding of source control (GIT)
Desired
- Experience in a role with a focus on automation testing on mobile platforms
- Industry experience of researching and evaluating testing tools and developing solutions
- Experience of determining where automation can be most optimally and effectively implemented
- Experience of software delivery through CI/CD environments (Jenkins)
- Experience setting up and maintaining testing environments
- Previous experience of working with mocking amp; stubbing to facilitate integration testing (Wiremock)
- Experience in setting up parallel test execution device farms such as Sauce Labs or BrowserStack advantageous
- Knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Experience dealing with AWS services such as Lambdas, elastic containers, etc
- Self-motivated team player with a strong desire to learn new skills and grow, whilst also being able to self-manage
We are looking for people who share an affinity for our values:
Trust is Everything
We are One Team