Staff Engineer Biometrics DevTest

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

Location: Cardiff, UK

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

We are seeking a Dev Test professional to 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.
• 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 identify and liaise with external test facilities to cover test gaps.
• 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 interoperability test requirements.
• Able to make 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 FW, 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 of 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 of 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…