Software Development Engineer in Test; SDET

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location:

Derry/Londonderry or Cambridge, United Kingdom (Hybrid).

Employment Type:

Full Time.

We’re looking for a motivated Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our 3DVis Cloud team ’ll contribute to the delivery of best‑in‑class 3D visualisation and XR (Extended Reality) cloud streaming technologies, supporting AVEVA’s industrial software portfolio. Your work ensures our cloud and on‑premises solutions meet high standards of quality, robustness, and security. This is a great opportunity to grow skills within a collaborative, scaled‑agile (SAFe) environment.

• Collaborate with developers, Dev Ops engineers and SDET engineers to define, implement, and execute functional and non‑functional test coverage for our product, taking ownership of coverage for assigned features and work items.
• Enhance our test automation by independently designing, writing, and maintaining automated tests using C# within existing frameworks and team patterns.
• Maintain automated test execution by owning investigation of failures, improving test reliability (e.g., reducing flaky tests), and driving issues through to resolution within a continuous integration environment.
• Use Azure Dev Ops Test Plans to plan and execute regression testing, and Azure Dev Ops Pipelines to configure and run deployments to test environments.
• Improve our testing practices by identifying gaps in test coverage, proposing and implementing new test cases or automation improvements, and sharing best practices with the team.
• Help maintain production quality by investigating production issues and driving preventative improvements, such as strengthening automated regression coverage and test automation.

• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and how testing contributes to delivery.
• Proven experience in functional testing in a professional software environment with exposure to non‑functional testing (e.g., reliability, performance, security) and the ability to take ownership of test coverage for assigned features.
• Comfortable writing and maintaining automated tests using C# within existing team practices, producing robust maintainable tests.
• Team‑oriented and collaborative, with clear communication and strong organisational skills, able to work independently and collaboratively drive issues through to resolution with the team.
• Methodical, proactive “can‑do” attitude with a strong learning mindset and desire to grow technical depth.

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of software development principles such as OOP, SOLID and DRY.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with performance and load testing (e.g., k6 or similar tools).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud services.

• Flexible benefits fund.
• Emergency leave days.
• Adoption leave.
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
• Pension.
• Life cover.
• Private medical insurance.
• Parental leave.
• Education assistance program.

AVEVA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. We provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.