Summary :We are looking for a senior SDET to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications. The SDET role is pivotal to the team, providing technical testing capability within the team to ensure the team can deliver rapidly with the highest levels of quality that we expect from our products. As an SDET you will work alongside other engineers as part of a close-knit Scrum team to ensure our products meet agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance. The Role: The Senior SDET role involves the following activities: Define test strategies to support the development of major new features or of new applications, Design, implement and document test environments and frameworks supporting the agreed strategy, Work with the Product Owner to define User Stories and acceptance criteria, Define technical test plans focused on extensive automation covering all levels of the test pyramid, Develop unit, integration, system, and end-to-end tests in an automated fashion, Develop performance, load, stress, and soak test solutions, Execute a wide range of functional/non-functional tests, manual and automated, Review and debug product and test code to find defects or performance bottlenecks, Support the Product Owner to close stories, confirming acceptance criteria and defect fixes, Analyse test data and produce test reports for relevant checkpoints or milestones, Participate in Agile/scrum activities (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices, Participate in software design meetings and work with software engineers to ensure testability and best practices are built into the product architecture and code, Investigate new test tools/methodologies and integrate them as part of the team practices and continuous integration processes, also liaising with other teams to share knowledge and best practices. The Requirements: Proven work experience in software quality assurance in technical SDET roles Significant understanding of software testing, its main concepts, and processes: different testing levels, methods and types; test estimation techniques Experience in building test frameworks from scratch, supporting testing at all levels of the testing pyramid Experience developing test automation solutions in .NET using C# Experience in testing and developing test automation solutions for distributed systems Experience in building performance test benchmarking solutions to support .NET solutions Effective communication and teamwork skills to interact with team members and stakeholders, from reproducing the reported issue to understanding how the defect has been fixed Natural curiosity with advanced analysis and problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile team and environment Extensive experience of utilising continuous integration and delivery tooling Awareness of advances in engineering tooling/practice especially within the testing discipline Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are: Hands on experience with Azure Cloud services and deployment of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code concepts Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker, ACA, Kubernetes Experience with Azure Machine Learning Experience in chaos engineering and testing tooling Experience in automated security test tooling General knowledge of the Insurance Industry Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or relevant discipline Equal Opportunity Employer At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity. At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a ”hybrid” style, with a mix of remote, in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and “hybrid” is not a one-size-fits-all solution. (ICT_TECH TD_2025_19)