Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - SDET

Job Type:

Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
 

HISCOX is an international insurer specialized in the market of luxury goods & property, and high-end professional insurance. As experts in risk, we give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions. With offices in 9 European countries, we have a very international staff and encourage a culture that fosters inclusion and collaboration, offering exciting opportunities for personal and professional growth.

In our Lisbon office we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees’ well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.

The Team:

The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists and agile practitioners. We organise ourselves into chapters according to these professional disciplines. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.
 

Hiscox London Market is actively seeking a dynamic Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to support our London Market Engineering team and immediately get involved in shaping the way we ensure quality across all of our technology platforms.

The Role:

In the role of an SDET in London Market you will establish and maintain automated testing frameworks to ensure the quality of our web applications, APIs and data platforms. This will involve working closely with the software engineers and product owners in understanding, defining and testing of the application.

Our technology platforms include web applications developed in C# interacting with backend services (APIs) and backed by Microsoft SQL Server databases. We operate data platforms using Snowflake cloud data warehouse orchestrated with Python code and Prefect for ELT. We have a hybrid on-premises / Azure cloud infrastructure and are adopting a cloud first / provider agnostic approach.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring hands-on development of both testing frameworks and specific tests for APIs, data platforms and web applications 

• Creating and working within a specialist quality engineering practice for the Hiscox London Market with a right tool for the job mentality; researching, evaluating and adopting new technologies. 

• Focusing on speed of delivery and quality, with suitable pragmatism – ensuring your solutions are always “appropriate” and not overly complex or over-engineered. 

• Enabling progression of projects from PoC to post-production stage. 

• Communicating and presenting ideas to colleagues in all parts of the wider business. 

• Working with offshore partner quality engineers – in India and Poland and onsite staff in London and York Hiscox offices. 

Person Specification:

Our must haves 

• Sound understanding of testing methodologies including behaviour-driven testing, unit testing and data-driven testing. 

• Ability to take an automation-first approach to quality engineering. 

• Experience with C# testing framework. 

• Experience with web application testing using tools such as Playwright. 

• Experience with the API testing using RestSharp 

• Behaviour-driven testing of executable specifications e.g. using Gherkin. 

• Sufficient SQL expertise to develop effective backend database tests. 

• Good understanding of DevOps principals and experience with CICD pipelines. 

• Experience in working with version control tools like git. 

• Experience with both cloud and on-premises solutions. 

• Experience of UI testing tools. 

Our nice to haves 

• Experience building tests into Azure DevOps pipelines. 

• Exposure to Docker / Familiarity of containerization would be advantageous 

• Particular understanding of the Azure cloud. 

Why Hiscox?

• Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system.

• Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).

• Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc.

• After 5 years work 1-month sabbatical leave.

• Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture