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We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDeT) to support a mobile squad.
The successful candidate will join the mobile squad in the middle of their journey and you will support them in programming, executing and monitoring:
- test automation
- testing standards
- quality standards
In return you will be supported by a friendly and inclusive team who care deeply about developing each other's capabilities.
How you will contribute
- You will be responsible for managing and maintaining all test automation activities
- You will lead working with your stakeholders to ensure mobile test automation is executed as per the strategy
- You will lead monitoring test coverage of all test automation activities
- You will collaborate with stakeholders to help define functional and non-functional test requirements
- You will take the lead in all things testing
- You will lead defining ways to improve testing to continue to enable a shift left approach
The ideal skills for this role include
- You are an expert in test automation for different types of tests
- You are an expert in helping maintain native mobile test automation frameworks for different types of testing
- You are an expert in effectively integrating testing into CI/CD
- You have solid understanding of the pros and cons of what tests to run where in CI/CD
- You have solid programming experience in native mobile test automation frameworks; Compose UI Test and XCUITest
- You have a solid understanding of the test pyramid
- You have solid experience in using tools to report test results
- You are a great communicator
