Middle/Senior SDET
Customer description:
Red Acre is a global company based in Dublin, Limassol and Tallin, with headquarters in Malta, empowering businesses through Software as a Service solution.
What is this role about and why should you care?
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. This role responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts. The SDET role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.
Requirements:
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- Proven work experience in software development and/or software quality assurance
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases using Gherkin syntax
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
- Hands-on experience with load testing tools such as JMeter, SoapUI, K6 or Artillery
- Solid knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript
- Experience developing tests using modern test automation frameworks such as Cypress
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Experience with performance and/or security testing
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office tools
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of PHP or .Net (C#) languages
- Knowledge of web development using WordPress, React or Next.js
- Experience working with Selenium WebDriver and SpecFlow frameworks
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience using Jenkins, Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines and Docker
- Experience with performance and/or security testing
- Experience working in a micro-service architecture
- Experience working in a containerized environment
- Previous experience in the FinTech industry
Personal Skills:
- Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing technical aspects to people with various backgrounds and management levels
- Detail-oriented, meticulous and methodical
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly independently
- Strong work ethic, reliability and consistency
- Capable of working both as a team and as an individual
- Adapt well to change and successfully set and adjust priorities as needed
Responsibilities:
- Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
- Design, develop, execute and maintain automated tests
- Identify, record, track, document thoroughly and critically all bugs, defects and suggested improvements
- Perform black-box, white-box and smoke testing with the intention of breaking things
- Test functionality and features against both function, UI/UX and technical requirements
- Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
- Constantly identifying and implementing new methods for improving code quality and deliverables, without effecting stakeholder satisfaction
- Constantly force the development team to follow internal coding standards to help the team to detect problems early or even prevent them completely
- Liaise with internal teams to identify system requirements
- Monitor debugging process results
- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
- Be part of the technical team responsible for testing frequent releases and new features
