Senior Software Engineer in Test
Recruiter
JLR
Listed on
3rd December 2021
Location
Manchester
Salary/Rate
Competitive
Salary Notes
Competitive
Type
Permanent
Start Date
2021-12-03
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WHAT TO EXPECT
A Senior Software Engineer in Test with a passion for quality, and proven experience of automated software testing, is required for a variety of digital projects being delivered for Jaguar Land Rover in Manchester. We are looking for great engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.
* Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative start-up environment, but also enjoy the security, resources and influence of an established and successful organisation?
* Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?
* Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow developers?
You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development capability within Jaguar Land Rover.
Reporting to the Principal Software Engineer and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be a valued member of the Global Digital Development Centre team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives, with a focus on testability, robustness, security and performance for exciting new projects. You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and will be expected to take on some mentoring and coaching of less experienced engineers in the lab as well as contributing to process improvements in the lab.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Our Senior Software Engineers in Test should have:
* 5+ years experience in automated software testing in an agile and DevOps culture, with deep knowledge of the STLC and a real passion for quality
* Strong experience with tools such as Robot, Selenium, Post Man, Cypress or Puppeteer
We are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:
* 5+ years experience developing and testing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications
* 5+ years experience with Java, Spring Boot or another OO language
* OR ... 5+ years experience with JavaScript (ES6/7/8) and common front-end libraries such as React
* OR ... 5+ years experience building APIs
* Experience with software quality tools such as SonarQube
* Experience with relational database technologies such as MySQL or similar
* Experienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
* Experience with Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
* Experience with modern web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS
* Strong programming skills
* Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
* Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
* Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
* Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of developers
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
The following skills and experience are nice to have:
* Experience in BDD and creating tests using Gherkin syntax
* Experience working with observability and monitoring tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
* Experience with Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
* Familiarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a NoSQL database engine (Mongo, Neo4j, etc)
