Software Test Developer

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Purpose of the position

Northern Ireland

In this role you are a key member of our software test team. Your focus will be test planning, design, execution and automation on a team that builds and maintains a high-performance data analytics pipeline in Amazon Web Services.

The ideal candidate must be self-directed, a fast learner, can work in an agile environment, flexible enough to work on new technologies as well as legacy components and will advocate for quality and integrity. You will work on our backend system within a geographically distributed team. You will be an integral part of communicating with developers and other teams to ensure standards of the validity of the data, customer privacy and overall functionality is met. You will work with the test and development teams on the choices of tools and technologies to enhance testing and test automation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Advocate for the quality
• Advocate for test coverage on the protection of privacy, security and data integrity
• Collaborating with your project team to determine test requirements
• Providing leadership in agile scrum and planning processes
• Exploratory testing for individual components or features; finding and reporting defects
• Building, deploying, and maintaining a test infrastructure to verify the data analytics pipeline in AWS
• Build reusable test code and libraries for future use
• Designing, executing and report benchmarks on stress, performance, scalability and other non-functional tests
• Working with other test teams and test leaders to innovate and improve how the team performs

Education and work experience

• Dedication to software test as a craft
• Degree in computer science, software engineering or related disciplines
• 5+ years of work experience in software testing
• Some experience as a test lead or prime on a major product
• Familiarity with terminal scripting and working directly in CLI
• Experience with AWSS3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, SQS
• AWS CLI is an asset
• Experience with CI/CD workflow tools (Teamcity, Jenkins)
• Experience with adding to and maintaining automated tests, using scripting languages (Robot Framework, Python)
• Experience with databases, (SQL, AWS Athena)
• Ideally working with large data
• Data analytical testing is an asset

Supervision

• This position does not have any direct reports.
• Home-based role in Northern Ireland, fast-paced work environment.

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At SMART, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and equitable workplace where all individuals regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, or disability can thrive. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.