We're seeking an exceptional Software Developer in Test Engineer with holistic system-breaking skills to join our vibrant and enthusiastic engineering team. This is a full-time position based in London with global scope and responsibility.
The ideal candidate must have a strong technical background and prior software development experience. The person will work closely with Development and DevOps Engineers to deliver efficient software testing automation solutions.
We run high-performance, data-intensive backend software for the programmatic advertising sector. We have a SaaS UI, real-time bidding layers, and we generate a vast amount of data stored in a high-performance data warehouse.
We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and who has a proven history of solving complex distributed real-time quality challenges. It is within your remit to find new and interesting ways to test our technology to be more efficient, faster, and smarter.
Responsibilities
You will work hand-in-hand with the software engineers to design, build, and test all components of our platform. Your main responsibility will be to design, implement, and maintain the different components of our testing infrastructure. Some of the challenges you will face are:
- Develop our software test automation infrastructure.
- Use existing software testing frameworks to implement functional, regression, and performance tests.
- Liaise with DevOps to define best practices for software testing and resource management of the different software components of our platform.
- Liaise with the different software development teams to ensure quality across the board, especially at the functional and system integration testing level.
- Drive the design and implementation of the Software Quality Assurance Roadmap for our company.
Note that this is primarily a software development position and as such it is expected that you’ll spend most of your time writing test software. However, there are always opportunities for further development of skills within the engineering team.
Required Skills
- Have a minimum of 2 years Software QA experience in digital media or software companies.
- Demonstrable software development skills and expertise focused on:
- Test case definition
- Functional testing
- Performance testing
- Smoke/Regression testing
- Automated test discovery and execution
- Demonstrable skills and expertise with industry tools in:
- Software testing frameworks e.g. Unittest, C-Test
- Source control e.g. Git, SVN
- CI/CD tools e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker
- Container technology e.g. docker
- Good Linux shell scripting to establish scriptable tasks.
- Knowledge of two or more: Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, SQL.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with others.
- Ability to work independently
Desired Skills
- Experience using Python test frameworks and tools e.g. unittest, pytest, mock, moto, etc.
- Experience using Amazon Web Services ecosystem:
- EC2, EC2 Container Service, S3, etc.
- Hands on experience utilizing the Atlassian suite
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Bitbucket