Senior DevTest Engineer

An Amazing Career Opportunity for an Staff Engineer - Dev Test Tools!

Location:

Cardiff, UK Job

As a Dev Test Staff Engineer in Cardiff, you will drive the team formation, implementation and maintenance of a robust CI/CD pipeline within HID PACS.

This is a wide-ranging role, bridging the functions of the Dev Ops and QA Validation teams.

The goal is to establish a sustainable Dev Test framework and methodology, provide a fully supported and scalable CI/CD-enabled test environment, and eliminate manual Engineering Verification Testing from the software development process.

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here:  and

HID Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS) is at the forefront of securing spaces with advanced, reliable access control solutions. From cutting-edge readers, credentials and controllers, to mobile and biometric technologies, HID PACS empowers organizations worldwide to protect their people, property and assets with scalable, high-quality solutions.

This is more than just a job – it’s your chance to join an industry leader to drive innovation in access control and make a real impact on global security solutions.

• Staff Engineer is seen as a grounded and reliable engineer who is a master of their specific domain.
• Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understanding the trade-offs in creating good work and fast output for product in their field.
• They are aware and self-learn industry best practices & trends and have acquired at least one major skill outside of their area of expertise.
• As Staff Engineer you will get a lot done! They are responsible for complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, involving other experts as needed to problem solve.
• They require little oversight beyond high-level direction and can take a complex scenario, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing sub-tasks with relative ease.
• This engineer shows initiative beyond completing tasks list; they can identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and their teams.
• The Staff Engineer self-seeks evidence to support their ideas and builds cases for these ideas.
• They have end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompasses more than their own development.
• This engineer is known and seen as a technical leader by their peers and works effectively with non-technical members.
• Usually works with limited supervision, conferring with the wider team and Supervision as required.
• Has latitude for un-reviewed action or decision making.

• Able to design and implement a wide range of testing techniques to support a scalable and automated CI/CD environment.
• Monitor, triage and resolve CI/CD pipeline test failures.
• Design, build and documentation of new CI/CD infrastructure for new features.
• Able to communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to project manage and use technical leadership to achieve a team result.
• Contributes to project and product planning discussions.
• Understands how the product under test operates, as part of a wider system
• Plans and scopes solution test requirements
• Able to make decisions regarding the Test Environment
• Coaches / mentors others at a technical level
• Able to raise defects with the business and help prioritize them based on severity.
• Able to research, plan and train others within the team.
• Actively contribute to customer escalations
• Champions TDD methodology and leads stakeholders in its implementation.

• Engineering degree or equivalent or suitable experience.
• Minimum of +7 years of related industry experience.
• Prior experience with designing and conducting device testing, software testing, or other related testing experience.
• Familiarity with software installation and configuration in Windows and Linux environments
• Ability to install and configure computer system…