SDE

About this job

A SDET is responsible for ensuring a product’s quality by making sure it performs as users expect it to. You are expected to be creative in devising technical ways to manipulate, crush and sabotage software into submission - while creating innovative testing technologies along the way. Coding of automated tests will be part of your daily work and you will have responsibilities in all stages of the product cycle through requirements, design, development and release of the product.

The role (What you will DO and the IMPACT you will have)

• Work as a team member within a self-managing, potentially geographically distributed project team made up of Developers, Testers, a Product Owner, Scrum Master and Project Manager or a service improvement team made up of the same but with a Service Delivery Manager rather than a Project Manager.
• Participate in team daily stand up meetings to report on progress and raise impediments.
• Active and enthusiastic participation in end of sprint retrospectives to agree improvements to working practices.
• Participate in sprint planning and story pointing sessions with the team to agree on priority of user stories in the sprint backlog and to estimate the effort required to deliver stories.
• Deliver testing tasks for user stories against timescales committed to in the sprint planning meetings.
• Perform functional and non-functional testing on EMIS products including but not limited to acceptance, stability, resilience, performance, system, integration, regression, usability, load, stress, compatibility, deployment and smoke testing.
• Identify and implement technical approaches to testing that allow acceleration and automation of the testing effort.
• Identify technical opportunities to produce tools that enhance the productivity of the Development Department.
• Design lean and efficient tests based on user stories, acceptance criteria, lean test plans and discussions with team members, subject matter experts and clinical experts to include test design, test data design, test pre-requisites etc.
• Design highly efficient and risk based regression test suites to reduce the risk of regressing existing functionality within new projects or service improvements.
• Creation and maintenance of suitable test environments.
• Capture test results and raise defects to the team where expected results differ to actual results.
• Participate in self-development activities such as attending Coffee Shops, Testing Dojos, Team Learning Activities, Book Clubs and Special Interest Groups.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience (What you will KNOW or LEARN)

Essential

4 years’ experience in a Technical testing role

Desirable