Software Developer in Test II

What you will do:

• Designs, implements and executes automated tests across the platform, and owns the automated testing of new features developed within the squad. 

• Creates, owns and reviews peers’ automation scripts, and takes ownership of keeping them green. 

• Investigates and fixes automation failures by debugging daily automation runs and reports, without needing that work assigned. 

• Contributes to quality releases and reduced time to market by adding meaningful automation coverage and by converting manual tests to automated ones. 

• Contributes to improvements within the test pyramid — shifting away from sole reliance on UI validation toward lower levels of testing to increase reliability. 

• Improves the stability and speed of E2E tests through better test data setup, test isolation and execution reliability; champions practices that reduce flaky tests and noisy signals. 

• Performs root-cause analysis of defects using logs, browser dev tools, API calls and data inspection. 

• Challenges acceptance criteria for each persona during refinement, and identifies during planning what should be automated. 

• Handles on-call effectively and promptly, and reliably reproduces production defects. 

• Assists during hotfix rollouts and other time-sensitive initiatives. 

• Creates accurate, informative Jira tickets with the data needed to reproduce an issue. 

• Gives credible automation effort estimates during refinement. 

• Participates in and improves code review practice across the team. 

• Contributes toward key delivery and quality metrics — test coverage, defect trends, test effectiveness, execution health, flakiness and regression rates — and uses them to refine practice. 

• Collaborates with squad Development, Product, UX and Documentation members, and presents sprint demos to the squad and team. 

• Mentors SDET I and co-op team members, and assists with onboarding new hires. 

• Works with agentic testing capability and AI test harnesses applied within the quality engineering space, and contributes to evaluating what actually works. 

• Works with DevOps to build and enhance the CI/CD pipeline. 

What you will bring:

• 2+ years of experience in quality engineering teams, ideally within a modern SaaS or platform organisation in a cloud-native environment (AWS). 

• Solid hands-on experience in TypeScript, HTML and CSS; Java and JavaScript depending on the platform. 

• Core automation skills and a working understanding of the frameworks and tools used for web application and microservices testing — in-depth knowledge of Cypress with TypeScript, or the willingness to get there quickly. 

• Knowledge of testing strategies and tools across the pyramid, from unit through to E2E, including API contract and integration testing (Pact, K6). 

• Understanding of cloud, microservice and third-party-integration-based architecture, and of databases. 

• Extensive knowledge of version control systems such as Git and their application to managing test artifacts. 

• Working knowledge of GitHub Actions or Jenkins, and experience working with DevOps to build and enhance a CI/CD pipeline. 

• Familiarity with observability tooling and with practices that improve test signal and pipeline feedback loops. 

• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment with changing priorities. 

• Strong communication, time management, interpersonal and team-building skills. 

• A keen eye for detail and well-developed problem-solving skills. 

• Practical interest in AI-powered testing tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude, and the judgement to know where they help and where they do not. 

• Nice to have: experience testing Angular / AngularJS applications with Cypress-class frameworks; IntelliJ; and working knowledge of the accounting, auditing or financial domain.