Location
Manchester
Position
Software Engineer
Vacancy Type
Contract
J37098399

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Software Test Engineer

Location: Manchester

Rate: £57.00ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £42.30ph on a PAYE basis

Employment Type: Contract (31/03/2027)

Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week

Reference: J37098399

ROLE PROFILE

Role Overview

A Senior Software Engineer in Test with a passion for quality, and proven experience of automated software testing, is required for a variety of digital projects being delivered for our automotive client in Manchester. We are looking for great engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.

  • Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative start-up environment, but also enjoy the security, resources
  • and influence of an established and successful organisation?
  • Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?
  • Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow engineers?

You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital

solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development capability within the company.

Reporting to the Principal Software Engineer in Test and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be a valued member of the Global Digital Development Centre team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives, with a focus on testability, robustness, security and performance for exciting new projects. You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and will be expected to take on some mentoring and coaching of less experienced engineers in the lab as well as contributing to process improvements in the lab.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement testing for cloud systems, including platform and APIs in an agile manner

• Implement testing frameworks and where required utilising automation tools

• Support issue investigation and resolution

• Work closely with the SRE team to develop strategies to meet required SLAs and SLOs

• Define testing quality stages and gates within the software development process

• Define and Implement testing and release process for cloud systems

• Implement tests stages in pipelines, testing tool configuration, and scripting where required to implement the teststrategy and processes

• Set quality goals and measurables for the system, devise and ensure the system meets these goals

• Establish a culture of maintaining continual testing and continual quality in our systems

• Line management for a junior software developer in test

Skills

Our Senior Software Engineers in Test should have:

  • Extensive experience in automated software testing in an agile and DevOps culture, with deep knowledge of the STLC and a real passion for quality
  • Strong experience with tools such as Robot, Selenium, Post Man or Cypress
  • We are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:
  • Extensive experience developing and testing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications
  • Extensive experience with Java, Python or another OO language
  • Experience with software quality tools such as SonarQube
  • Experience with relational database technologies such as MySQL or similar
  • Experienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
  • Experience with Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
  • Strong programming skills
  • Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
  • Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
  • Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
  • Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of developers
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

    The following skills and experience are nice to have:

  • Experience in BDD and creating tests using Gherkin syntax
  • Experience working with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Experience with Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
  • Familiarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a NoSQL database engine (Mongo, Neo4j, etc)
 

** THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35**


Do not miss out on your chance of interview – APPLY NOW!

Our Clients are unable to provide sponsorship for Visas; therefore, only candidates eligible to work in the UK need apply!

Caresoft Global Talent Solutions operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency. 
We are an independent highly-experienced recruitment consultancy dedicated to specialist markets within the Automotive, Aerospace, Agricultural & Construction Industries. 

No terminology within this advert is intended to unlawfully discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, race or disability and we welcome all applications.


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