Associate SDET

Blue Optima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using its proprietary Coding Effort Analytics, enabling large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, Blue Optima is a profitable, independent software company whose core technology was originally devised in research carried out at Cambridge University.

Headquartered in London, UK, Blue Optima operates through subsidiaries and offices across the UK, India, Mexico, the United States and Japan. Its technology is deployed by global enterprises — including Fortune 50 companies, major global banks and leading S&P constituents — to drive value from their software development activities, running complex analytics over very large source-code data sets.

Blue Optima is an Equal Opportunities employer.

We are seeking an associate SDET, with experience in automating tests for scalable application components, which are remotely deployed. Our distributed solution requires highly motivated and talented engineers to understand the depth of the problem and ensure its quality is maintained to a high standard.

We are looking for an individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, committed and not only passionate about technology, but is keen to own the solution end to end and collaborate with other engineers to improve the QA process.

The Belfast team at Blue Optima caters to all current and upcoming product changes in Active Multi Site, which is our distributed version control solution. The team develops and maintains sets of automated test cases across UI and API, focusing on data-centric as well as integration test cases.

The team is responsible for making sure that manual efforts, and in turn the release cycles, are reduced by automating tests based on priority, along with integrating the test suites with CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of features and products in an automated manner.

• Work with engineering and architecture to implement the plan developed for automating test cases and ensuring adequate automation coverage
• Create and maintain of test automation (both UI and API) within CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure the expected behaviour of code prior to product releases
• Increase overall coverage of automation suite
• Curate reports for the stakeholders

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (CS/IT) or 1 to 3 years of professional experience in software development or software testing
• Experience writing code in an Object-Oriented language such as Java
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, Subversion

• Over 1 year of experience of writing test automation.
• Experience writing web-page automation preferably using Selenium and Java
• Experience with testing distributed systems
• Knowledge of Linux administration, packaging and command line use
• Knowledge of Scripting languages (Shell, Bash, Python)
• Knowledge of virtualization / containerization technologies
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks, including JUnit, TestNG

• Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 remote
• 32 days holiday including bank holidays
• 12 weeks paid maternity and paternity leave
• 4 weeks per year flexible remote working from anywhere
• Annual Leave purchase (up to 10 extra days)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Pet friendly office
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme
• Team Socials

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