Staff Engineer Biometrics DevTest

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Staff Engineer Dev Test (Biometrics)

Cardiff, UK

46755

As a Staff Engineer Biometrics Devtest in Cardiff, you will drive the team formation, implementation and maintenance of a robust CI/CD pipeline within HID PACS. This wide‑ranging role bridges the functions of the Dev Ops and QA Validation teams. You will establish and maintain a scalable testing framework, deliver CI/CD‑enabled automated test environments, and drive the automation of smoke and sanity testing to improve development efficiency and product quality.

• 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/output/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.
• Responsible for complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, involving other experts as needed to problem solve.
• 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.
• Shows initiative beyond completing tasks list; they can identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and their teams.
• Self‑seeks evidence to support their ideas and builds cases for these ideas.
• Has end‑to‑end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompasses more than their own development.
• Is known and seen as a technical leader by 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.
• Monitors, triages and resolves CI/CD pipeline test failures.
• Designs, builds and documents new CI/CD infrastructure for new features.
• Identifies and liaises with external test facilities to cover test gaps.
• Communicates test results to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Projects manages and uses 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 interoperability test requirements.
• Makes decisions regarding the test environment.

• Engineering degree or equivalent or suitable experience.
• Minimum of +7 years of related industry experience.
• Prior experience with designing and carrying out device testing, embedded firmware, 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 hardware components and establish connections to local area networks and back‑end processing systems.
• Experience with SQL DB queries to validate software recording proper data and ensure participant data ingested properly prior to testing.
• Experience in scripting.
• Experience with tracking software development using Jira or other similar programs.
• Experience with Agile and Lean Methodologies.
• Ability to write complex coded test solutions.
• Familiar with SBCs (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) and control of sensors/relays/stepper motors.
• Familiar with Jenkins, NUnit and scripting.
• Experience with Artifactory and Nexus repositories along with Maven and Nuget artifacts management.
• Able to specify, design and produce physical test systems – outsourcing where necessary.
• Knowledge of various test/development methodologies such as DDT, BDD, TDD, Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing and Performance/Reliability Testing.
• Should have experience of Systems and Systems Integration testing, including End‑2‑End testing.

• Experience of testing Java applications using JUnit, Test Ng, Mockito, and dbUnit.
• NUnit test framework.
• Scripting languages e.g. Python, Java SDK.
• Mercurial and/or Bitbucket version control.
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