Senior Automation Engineer (SDET)
Senior SDET builds and maintains automated tests (unit, integration, API, E2E) for legal-tech software, using C#, .NET, SpecFlow, and Azure to ensure high-quality data integration and delivery.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, GB
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Software development background or coding experience.
- Strong understanding of automation frameworks and technology.
- Strong experience in C#, .NET, Specrunner, and SpecFlow.
- Strong understanding of SQL, relational databases, structure, and design.
- Experience testing solutions to maintain a high level of data quality.
- Good understanding of testing metrics and reporting.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with SCRUM, Agile, and BDD.
- A pragmatic approach to solving problems with a critical thinking mindset.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience in coaching/mentoring Automation QAs.
- Ability to identify tasks, dependencies, or risks during backlog grooming/planning.
Full description
About BigHand
BigHand offers technology solutions for busy legal professionals that provide data and insights to increase value and profits. Through our expert knowledge and innovative technology, we enable our customers to achieve enhanced efficiency, better decision-making and harness their competitive edge.
We build with tomorrow in mind, transforming ideas into action and empowering our customers to succeed in a world of constant change. We make big happen for our customers.
We are a business driven by our values and have these at the centre of everything we do. Our BigHanders are dedicated to building a culture where We Win Together, We Love to Learn, We Do the Right Thing, We Own It and We Find the Fun.
About the role
As a Senior SDET, you’ll play an important role in ensuring we produce high quality software solutions that solve customer and user problems. You will be joining a team which is integrating data from client and third-party sources to BigHand’s cloud environments.
The Senior SDET’s aim is to write robust and comprehensive automated tests at all levels of the Testing Pyramid to deliver quality products – from Unit Tests (if required), through Component Integration tests all the way to back end API and front end E2E automated tests. You will also play a key role in helping define the future automation strategy and coaching/upskilling the QA team in automated testing.
The successful Senior SDET will have good communication ability, a professional attitude and work ethic, along with good experience of key Test Automation tools and processes. They will be able to help define the Automation Strategy and Frameworks from a strategic, as well as tactical perspective.
What you’ll do
- Tests new software products and services.
- Takes ownership for delivering high-quality software.
- Writes automated Component Integration, API, and E2E tests, building/maintaining a Regression Test library.
- Collaborates with developers/business analysts to design automated tests using a BDD approach.
- Recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and processes.
- Coordinates test schedules, work and resource plans, and manages the progress of all activities against the plan.
- Proactively develops their skill and competence in both the products and test process/tools.
- Mentors, supports, and develops fellow team members in writing high-quality automation tests.
- Embraces the agile development framework and way of thinking.
- Leads by example on all above responsibilities.