Software Developer in Test
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK - Remote
Description
Your new company
A tech scale up with Big Plans...
When you join Exclaimer you will join a global award-winning SaaS provider with an exceptional revenue rate, ambitious growth plans, and an exciting work culture.
We provide world-class email signature solutions that let organizations of any size achieve brand consistency, legal compliance, and customer engagement on any device. Designed for Microsoft 365, Google Workplace, and Microsoft Exchange, our solutions are used by over 70,000 customers in 150+ countries. Some of these customers include renowned companies such as Sony, Mattel, Bank of America, NBC, the Government of Canada, the BBC, and the Academy Awards. We have over 300 employees worldwide.
We are looking for great engineers to join the team responsible for the flagship Exclaimer Cloud SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, utilizing the latest technologies in our push to expand the product’s functionality and evolve the technical platform.
As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Software Developer in Test to join our Engineering team. This role places you within a team of like-minded engineers, where you'll have the opportunity to identify and deliver improvements to our testing frameworks and processes and shape the strategic direction of our testing practices. You'll also collaborate with senior engineers across engineering to ensure we develop robust, reusable automated tests that meet the needs of both internal development teams and external end-users.
Key Responsibilities
* Creation of reliable peer-reviewed automated tests, to validate customer-focused acceptance criteria as part of an end-to-end testing lifecycle.
* Actively look to improve testing efficiency, looking for opportunities to ‘shift left’ when considering the level at which new test cases might best be created.
* Participate in planning meetings, ensuring that test effort for new features/features under development is appropriately considered and estimated.
* Ensure any bugs or issues found are appropriately documented to facilitate smooth investigation, and validate fixes to confirm resolution.
* Ensure both functional and non-functional test areas are considered where appropriate, taking a balanced view as to a suitable level of test coverage.
* Participate in code reviews for automated tests written by engineers within the team and cross-team.
* Work with other test engineers to improve testing tools & processes, identify and bring into practice any relevant potential new test tools & frameworks.
* Creating, configuring, maintaining and deploying test environments.
* Leading by example, as an individual contributor; following best testing practices and identifying improvements.
* Collaborating with the Product, UX and the wider Engineering team to define solutions to the customer’s problems and identify increments that allow the earliest possible release of value that deliver a world-class user experience across multiple demographics.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Knowledge and Expertise
* A desire to work in a technology-focused role, testing software that solves problems for millions of users every day.
* Highly organized with attention to detail.
* Pro-actively look to understand where gaps are in our technology stack and help incorporate innovative technologies that can help with our development experience or even velocity within the teams.
* Be able to take a problem, assess possible solutions and create clean, robust, well-tested solutions.
* Takes a pragmatic approach to testing, focusing effort based on risk, whilst acknowledging exhaustive testing is impossible.
* A driven individual contributor with a passion for learning and continuous improvement.
* Experience of working closely with Product Management and UX Designers to identify and collaborate on the optimal solution to the customer/technical problem.
* Excellent ability to establish trust and build relationships with peers and stakeholders across the business; you will be able to communicate clearly, succinctly, and without ambiguity.
* History of working in a fast-paced SaaS business delivering high-frequency incremental delivery of customer-facing functionality.
Essential Skills
* Background and previous experience in automated software testing and test tools
* Strong communicator and collaborator within team and cross-team
* Creating test cases for new and existing functionality in C#
* Behaviour-driven test frameworks such as ReqNRoll (formerly SpecFlow)
* Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Git
* Building robust and scalable test frameworks using Selenium and Playwright
* Back-end testing via RESTful APIs and queues
Desirable Skills
* Knowledge of creating & modifying pipelines for test execution as part of CI/CD
* Familiarity with performance test tools such as JMeter, K6, WebSurge, Locust
* Exposure/experience in testing within a microservice environment
* Familiarity with mocking frameworks such as Wiremock, Moq, RhinoMocks
* Familiarity with remote testing tools such as BrowserStack
* Familiarity with contract testing using tools such as PACT
* Familiarity with Microsoft Azure-related technologies such as Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions
* Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Bicep, Terraform
* ISEB/ISTQB Foundation or higher certification
Benefits
We offer you a challenging job in a growing and truly global international SaaS company with a competitive compensation structure. Ah, and you will be part of a fun and hardworking team:
* Remote / Hybrid working
* Healthcare
* Life insurance
* 6 weeks - work anywhere option per year
* Employee Assistance program
* Contributory retirement savings plan
* Opportunities for training & development
* Great team and culture
* Discounts portal
* Income protection Insurance
* Online GP services
Exclaimer is an equal opportunity employer and people seeking employment with us are considered without regards to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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