We have a great opportunity for an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test to join our excellent software development team based in Cambridge.
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YOUR EXPERIENCE

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 5+ years’ experience in software development as a Software Tester or Engineer, or similar role.
• Has demonstrable experience of programmatically testing complicated software products.
• Has a technical, inquiring mind, and enjoys problem solving and lateral thinking.
• Has good interpersonal skills and enjoys collaborating with others. Everything we do is done as part of a team, so being able to cooperate with others to meet shared goals, empathise, and form trusting relationships is key.

It would be beneficial, but not essential, to have experience of some of the following:

• C#
• The ability to read production code, understand the architecture from it, and determine unit test coverage.
• Experience with .Net Framework Applications with SQL Server & Oracle databases.
• Experience with VMWare vSphere
• Maintaining test environments.

THE ROLE

Our Testers follow a context-driven testing approach, treating learning, test design and test execution as simultaneous tasks. We understand our customers’ needs and help ensure the team are solving the right problems to deliver value to our users. We adapt our testing process according to the needs of the product, the team and the goals of the current development.
We automate tests, where appropriate, to support our agile approach, enabling us to respond to change more easily. Developers create automated unit tests as part of their development process. Testers create automated system and integration tests. Testers also use tools to enable them to carry out complex exploratory testing scenarios and simulate external systems that the software interacts with.
We develop software in a number of small to medium size product teams looking after software products of differing ages and stages of the product lifecycle. Testers are an integral part of our product teams working alongside developers and business experts in every stage of the software development process. Our work is very collaborative, and having a friendly office environment is very important to us.
We trust the teams who do the work to learn how best to do it.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Once you have gained an understanding of the product under development, the role will include the following responsibilities:

• Participating with the rest of the team in identifying areas of risk. Determining how they can be mitigated and where testing can add value.
• Creation and maintenance of tools to aid exploratory testing
• Creation and maintenance of tools to run simulations looking for performance/load/stress testing issues.
• Creation and maintenance of automated integration tests.
• Helping to recreate and troubleshoot issues.
• Acceptance testing in collaboration with the Product Owners.