SDET / Software development engineer in test
Bud, United Kingdom
Job Description
Bud works to create the world’s most compelling financial data products. We do this by working closely with Enterprise amp; SME clients who integrate Bud’s APIs and utilise Bud’s Dashboards and Web Flows. Bud provides suites of APIs, defined through OpenAPI specifications and integration guides, to clients which allow for automated integrations with the Bud Platform. Bud’s Dashboards are often used inside large organisations to enable staff to perform critical business processes. Bud’s Web Flows are used by hundreds of thousands of consumers a month to perform actions where conversion, accessibility and successful flows are critical such as completing payments or connecting Open Banking accounts.
Bud operates a number of domain-centric multi-disciplinary product teams consisting of individuals in the areas of Backend, Frontend, Design, Product, Data and QA. Bud Individual Contributors are expected to own the quality of what they deploy, with QA Engineers inside product teams producing automated tests, that are utilised by Individual Contributors for regression testing, based on external contracts, contributing to product discussions, and performing exploratory testing.
As an SDET you will be responsible to implement automation tests for our services, and contribute to development and maintenance of the overall QA regression suites, covering several projects and ensuring our software is consistently delivered with the highest quality.
Responsibilities, as part of the QA team, include:- Create automated test suites for product teams.
- Initiate and oversee the release process throughout the release cycle.
- Log and report bugs in Jira, and prioritise for the product teams.
- Join product teams meetings and ceremonies, and update Product Managers on any outstanding issues or release blockers.
- Increase test coverage.
You would be able to organise and manage your workload with the rest of the QA team, and work closely with the other product teams within the company.
A bit about you- You have experience with Python, Robot Framework, Selenium
- You have knowledge in CircleCI, Jenkins
- Familiar with BDD acceptance criteria testing
- You are familiar with Agile methodology, peer reviews, Git/GitHub
- Rest API Clients, Postman or Insomnia is a must.
- Ability to identify prerequisites for automation test suites
- You have excellent organisation and communication skills, and experience working within a QA team and other product teams / stakeholders, and in a fast paced consumer company.
These aren’t requirements, but are definitely a plus for any candidate!
- Experience with any other programming languages (Java, Javascript),
- Experience with mobile frameworks like Appium
- Experience with quality assurance of data-based products
- Previous experience working in Financial Services / Fintech, particularly working with consumer or business banking transactional data
The role is a hybrid role where you may work from Bud’s office or remotely as often as you wish, however, occasional attendance (such as once per month) in Bud’s office would be ideal for team get-togethers.
Benefits
Compensation
We offer competitive salaries in line with industry benchmarks, set using extensive market data. We review salaries on an annual basis to make sure we continue to reward people well for their contributions at Bud.
Career Progression
We all know how important it is to make sure we’re all growing in our roles. We have a detailed career progression framework to help you track your development and growth during your time at Bud, and your level within this framework will be formally reviewed every six months.
Wellbeing
We understand how important it is to look after your physical and mental health, and also that this looks different for everyone. To support this, we offer a range of wellbeing benefits for our team. We have private medical insurance as well as a 50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance. We also partner with the mental health platform, Spill, who provide therapy services and support.
Learning amp; Development
As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual 1000 pot available to use towards their learning and development - think books, courses amp; events - the choice is yours.
We also have quarterly Ramp;D days, giving you the opportunity to take a break for 2 days from live projects and work on something that’s inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.
Flexible Working
As a trusted member of Bud, you’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits