Lead SDET – Java

Job Description

The Role

As a lead SDET for this communications scale up you will be focused on leading a small highly focused team responsible for this businesses robust enterprise systems. You will work with appropriate stakeholders to ensure testing strategies and processes are applied. You will continue to improve the businesses automation frameworks and coverage while mentoring a talented team of more junior test professionals. You will Guide and Participate hands on in the teams testing efforts ensuring delivery.

Manage performance assessments and hiring for a small team of SDETs

Drive the team’s testing and automation strategies

Define and organize the teams test planning for releases

Design and coding of automation frameworks, tests and tools

Participate in team planning and story grooming

Participate in test execution, issue identification and resolution in support of the release

Propose and implement improvements to automation and test processes

Develop and maintain shared testing libraries

Provide training, mentorship and support to other members on the team

Conduct code reviews, improve and maintain quality of the automation code

Document the automation framework, tools and infrastructure

About You

As a lead SDET for this high growth AI scale up you will have a variety of skills that will enable you to succeed in the role. Don’t worry if you don’t hit them all you can definitely learn :

• Minimum 8 years of experience in test development
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading a small team
• Strong understanding of the Java language and object oriented principles
• Expertise applying test practices in an agile environment
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit
• Experience testing backend systems or APIs

Bonus Points for the Below

Experience With

Web services technology such as REST, JSON or Thrift

Testing web applications with Selenium WebDriver

Big data technology such as Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka or SQL

Network principles and protocols such as HTTP, TLS and TCP

Continuous integration systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo

Continuous delivery concepts