Software Engineer in Test - SDET

SDET
- Automation Testing
- Permanent
- Birmingham
- Hybrid (2 Days in Office) - Business with purpose
- Salary circa £70-75k plus a great benefits package

I'm working with a business based in central Birmingham who are looking for an SDET to join their IT development team, acting as a bridge between engineering and Test. They are at the start of their automation jhourn ey and this role needs the seniority to be able to advise and coach but without direct line management responsibilities.

It's a hands-on automation role. You'd be building and maintaining the automated test frameworks and suites that sit behind their applications and systems, covering functional, integration, regression, API and end-to-end testing, plus some performance and load testing. You'd also look after the testing side of their CI/CD pipelines.

Day to day you'll be in an Agile team alongside developers, BAs and project managers, getting involved early to agree test approaches and acceptance criteria, working through defects with the devs, and keeping the test documentation and evidence in order.

What they're after:

• Experience designing and building automated test frameworks for web applications, APIs and distributed systems
• Automated testing of REST and SOAP APIs
• SQL and relational database experience
• Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions, and Git for source control
• A good understanding of TDD and BDD
• Defect management, root cause analysis and test reporting
• An understanding of secure development and OWASP principles
• The ability to talk comfortably with both technical and non-technical people