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A leading premium automotive business and leading to move towards electric autonomous vehicles.
Today we are the largest investor in automotive research and development in the UK. Which means we want even more passionate minds that can think beyond, pushing the boundaries of what our industry deems possible.
Jaguar Land Rover has long pushed the boundaries of technology. Now digital innovation lies at the heart of our business - because it is central to our future strategy. We are focused on the development of electric, connected and driverless cars that will reshape the whole industry. Joining us is your chance to help redefine who we are and where we're going. Your talents in software development and DevOps could take your career in many directions. Get ready to dream for tomorrow.
This role is based in Jaguar Land Rover's brand new hi-tech Global Digital Development Centre in the heart of Manchester, where you will be working alongside the best engineers in the world.
THE OPPORTUNITY
A 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 in Test 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 advocate testing within a team as well as contributing to process improvements across testing.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Define and implement testing for cloud systems, including platform and APIs in an agile manner
Implement testing and where required utilising automation tools
Support issue investigation and resolution
Work closely with the SRE team to develop strategies to meet required SLAs and SLOs
Define testing quality stages and gates within the software development process
Define and Implement testing and release process for cloud systems
Implement tests stages in pipelines, testing tool configuration, and scripting where required to implement the test strategy and processes
Set quality goals and measurables for the system, devise and ensure the system meets these goals
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
Our Software Engineers in Test should have:
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:
Experience developing and testing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications
Experience with Java, Python or another OO language
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
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
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)
We're reinventing what tomorrow looks like at Jaguar Land Rover. There's a revolution underway in our industry - and we're leading it. We've always been innovators. But our future will be driven by the possibilities created by new technologies as never before.