About us @Symphony
Secure. Connected. Intelligent.
Symphony is an AI-powered communication and technology company fueled by interconnected platforms: messaging, voice, directory and analytics.
Our end-to-end encrypted technologies enable over 1,400 institutions to accelerate AI impact, prioritize data security, navigate complex regulatory compliance and optimize business interactions.
Role Description:
Symphony is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who is eager to deliver a best-in-class software to Symphony’s enterprise customers.
This role will include working with the engineering teams across multiple time zones and supporting the product by reinforcing quality via automated tests. Building and maintaining a test infrastructure in code which is able to fully automate both client and server, where you will have to develop mock servers, write automation cases and execute them on different platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain Test Automation framework for a complex multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP) for large enterprise customers
- Troubleshoot, stabilize and optimize the various day-to-day existing QE automation jobs
- Continuously drive to convert any manual test cases to be part of the Test automation framework
- Define best practices to implement and maintain, build, and support Test automation framework
- Estimate test efforts, analyze test results and communicate to the stakeholders
- Integrating your work in a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.
- Responsible for quality of multiple products coming out of the organization, including their QA Sign-Off and releasing coordination
- Develop innovative solutions for quality engineering, data analysis and highly generic automation frameworks to promote Quality as a Service
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience of in QE automation tools for Back-End, API, Platform level, such as rest-assured, soap.
- Passionate about automating all things and understand the importance of being a customer advocate
- Professional experience in designing, developing and supporting test automation frameworks for React TS or Javascript web-applications. Development skills are a must
- Proven scripting experience in one or more of the following languages - Java, Typescript, Javacript, Python, Groovy, Ruby, Perl
- Working knowledge of JIRA and test management tools
- Knowledge of development tools to troubleshoot web-based applications is a plus
- Experience in client-server infrastructure, UI, backend APIs
- Experience with GitHub or similar source code management tools
- Worked in a Agile/Scrum environment supporting Cloud products
- Proven experience in QA Sign-Off and Release process
Compensation:
- Salary Range: £40,000 - 50,000 base salary per year
- Bonus Plan
Benefits and Perks:
- Regional specific competitive benefits
- Build your own Benefits (BYOB) perk
- Local events, team building, and development opportunities
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Skills Required
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation orchestration tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar)
- Software development and scripting experience in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, or C#
- Hands-on experience building automation frameworks for modern web applications (React/TypeScript/JavaScript)
- Experience with UI automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or Robot Framework
- Experience with backend/API testing tools such as REST Assured, Postman, or SoapUI
- Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems in AWS and/or GCP
- Familiarity with containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of JIRA, test management, and defect tracking tools
- Experience troubleshooting client-server architectures, web applications, backend APIs, and distributed systems
- Proven experience supporting QA sign-off processes, release validation, and production readiness activities
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills across globally distributed teams
- 3+ years of experience with performance, resiliency, chaos, or scalability testing
- Familiarity with shift-left testing and continuous quality engineering practices
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing, intelligent test selection, or automation analytics
Symphony Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Symphony and has not been reviewed or approved by Symphony.
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests a distinctive “Build Your Own Benefits (BYOB)” stipend/allowance is available alongside core regional benefits, enabling more individualized choices. Benefits are also framed as region-specific and competitive, implying structured options adapted to local norms.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare and benefits components are portrayed as a relative bright spot, with strong marks for the benefits package in the U.S. Core coverage such as health insurance is consistently indicated as part of the overall offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are positioned as generous, including references to uncapped/unlimited PTO and observed holidays. This can translate into stronger perceived flexibility when usage norms align with team expectations.
Symphony Insights
What We Do
Symphony is the most secure and compliant markets’ infrastructure and technology platform, where solutions are built or integrated to standardize, automate, innovate and liquefy financial services workflows. The Symphony platform is a vibrant community of over half a million financial professionals from 1300+ market participants underpinned by a trusted directory and omnichannel interactions across chat, voice, web, meetings and more. Symphony powers over 2,000 community-built applications and bots. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Sophia-Antipolis.
