Job description
Our client is a innovative software test consulting firm that specialises in providing testing services to a host businesses and organisations. They proudly offer advisory services, strategic consulting, and practical solutions to ensure clients meet goals and vastly improve there quality of performance in what is a competitive market. This is achieved by assisting clients in many services such as, Change Management, Test Automation, Testing strategy Development, Test Service Implementation, and Test Process Improvement.

Our client are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to boost there QA department. In this role, you will be a part of the testing excellence team that build test and execution required to successfully test a diverse set at all stages of development, from concept through post-launch. This would require the ability to develop ‘long-term vision’ testing skills while simultaneously being able to pivot to meet the immediate requirements of customers.

Key Responsibilities
• Continuously improve testing processes, tools, and frameworks to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and coverage.
• Ensure automated tests are integrated into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, allowing for continuous testing and rapid feedback.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create comprehensive test plans that cover functional, non-functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Collaborate with software developers to understand code changes, review code, and improve test coverage.
• Develop and manage test data required for different types of testing scenarios, ensuring data privacy and integrity.
• Regularly communicate testing progress, results, and quality metrics to relevant stakeholders, providing insights into the state of the product.
• Develop proof of concepts (PoCs) for new testing approaches, tools, or frameworks to validate their effectiveness.
• Provide guidance and support to team members on best practices in test automation and quality assurance.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts, frameworks, and tools to validate software functionality, performance, and security.
• Validate database operations, including data integrity, migrations, and performance under load.

Requirements
• Experience working with various relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).Well versed with Test Management tools, such as Jira, Zephyr, X-ray and Bugzilla.
• Strong Proven experience in developing and maintaining automated test scripts and frameworks for web, mobile, or API testing.
• Ability to write complex SQL queries to validate data integrity, transformations, and data migration across different databases.
• Ability to effectively communicate with client and product stakeholders, line manager and fellow team members.
• Proficiency in one or more programming such as Java, Python, or JavaScript(primary) with hands-on experience in writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Possess hands-on experience in testing Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes to ensure accurate data extraction, transformation, and loading between source and target systems.
• Proficient in validating data integrity, accuracy, consistency, and completeness during and after data transformations.

Salary: £40,000 to £50,000