SDET / Software Development in Test Engineer - Python
Qualitest, United Kingdom
Job Description
Due to continued growth, we are looking for an experienced SDET / Software Development in Test Engineer who is comfortable with working alongside our clients to achieve their business goals. At Qualitest, you’ll have the chance to support the best-known, most influential global brands, strategizing solutions in an incredible range of technologies, across all major industries.
You’ll have numerous opportunities to innovate with cutting-edge Qualitest tools, such as our AI-Powered Qualisense Test Predictor and our Qualiview Dashboard. Direct projects in Agile, AI, Automation, DevOps and other red-hot areas!
In return, we can offer you a competitive salary and benefits package. You will have a dedicated Engagement Lead for each assignment, coupled with on-going training throughout your career with us.
There is also the opportunity to work UK wide and as such, we ask for applicants who are fully flexible to travel UK wide.
Requirements
Within this role you will be
Ensuring hands-on development of both testing frameworks and specific tests for APIs, data platforms and web applications
creating and working within a specialist quality engineering practice for the client with a right tool for the job mentality; researching, evaluating and adopting new technologies.
Focussed on speed of delivery and quality, with suitable pragmatism ensuring your solutions are always appropriate and not overly complex or over-engineered.
Enabling progression of projects from PoC to post-production stage.
Communicating and presenting ideas to colleagues in all parts of the wider business.
Working with offshore partner QA engineers and testers in India and Poland and onsite staff in London and York.
Technical skills will include:
- Sound understanding of testing methodologies including behaviour-driven testing, unit testing and data-driven testing.
- Ability to take an automation-first approach to quality engineering.
- Experience developing testing frameworks for data sciences
- Familiarity with the Python testing framework pytest and its behavioural extension pytest-bdd
- Behaviour-driven testing of executable specifications e.g. using Gherkin.
- Sufficient SQL expertise to develop effective backend database tests.
- Good understanding of DevOps principals.
- Experience working in a truly agile style.
- Experience in working with version control tools like git.
- Experience with both cloud and on-premises solutions.
- Commercial savvy necessary to ensure work is prioritised and targeted appropriately.
- Good Team Player.
- Excellent Communication skills.
Desirable:
- Familiarity with Snowflake and Prefect
- Experience developing testing frameworks for web applications using tools such as Playwright.
- Experience building tests into Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Familiarity with C# testing frameworks.
- Exposure to Docker / Familiarity of containerization would be advantageous.
- Experience performance and volume testing APIs using tools like Gatling (or similar).
- Particular understanding of the Azure cloud.
Benefits
- Salary Competitive salary on offer
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Assessments
- Healthcare Cash Plan (UK Healthcare)
- Pension Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 3 months 4% employee and 4% company contribution. The company will match contributions up to 5%. Increases with length of service:
- Life Assurance 4x Times Salary
- Cycle To Work Scheme Salary sacrifice scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Benefits Portal
- Annual Performance amp; Pay Review Performance and salary reviews annually
- Enhanced Holidays 33 days per year (including bank holiday’s)