Software Development Engineer - London - £250-£300 per day

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Software Development Engineer/Tester

6 month contract (minimum)

City of London

£250 - £300 per day

Pearson Frank are currently working in partnership with a Global Consultancy who are searching for a Software Development Engineer/Tester for a 6 month contract with possible extensions and an immediate start, contract rates on offer are between £250 - £300 per day.

The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is responsible for developing and executing comprehensive suites of automation test plans and test cases, maintaining and adding to existing automation framework, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in regression, automation for newly integrated features, and development of toolsets to augment QA and Development testing. The SDET will also work closely with Software Developers and other QA engineers in small scrum teams to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Specific duties and responsibilities include creating, maintaining and executing test plans and test cases against our hardware and software platforms, estimating test efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking and participating in day to day QA Activities. You will also add to our company's performance and scalability testing efforts. This can also include the writing of specialized testing tools for use in testing our software platform

Essential Duties/ Responsibilities

Create, maintain and execute test plans and test cases against our hardware and software platforms

Competencies/Qualifications

· Strong development experience in Java

· Experience in Selenium Webdriver, TDD/BDD.

· Excellent automation development.

· Excellent programming, debugging, and test automation skills.

· Experience with designing and developing test automation frameworks, detailed test plans and driving product quality with passion.

· Strong and proven record of test framework creation.

· Strong and proven record of test methodologies.

- Provide technical leadership, direction, and guidance to a focused workgroup in driving rationalization of automation frameworks.

- Excellent Communication Skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team.

- 8-10 years of experience (minimum) in leading technologies including open source implementation

- Experience with JAVA is preferred

- Scripting knowledge of Javascript, Jquery, and Powershell desired

- Demonstrated skill in testing enterprise distributed systems is strongly desired

- Excellent troubleshooting skills to root cause complex issues required

- Demonstrated skill using code repositories, preferably Microsoft TFS

- Knowledge of Microsoft plug-in tools, such as Selenium and others

- Knowledge of performance and scalability test approaches and automation

- Passion for finding bottlenecks and thresholds in existing code through the use of automation tools

- Passion for creating and executing test plans

- Passion for continuing education and improving code quality through interaction with development team

- Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and being an active participant in code reviews

- Strong time management skills with a history of meeting commitments

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases

- Experience in optimization mathematics (linear programming, nonlinear optimization)

- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions

- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly

- Estimate test efforts

- Analyse and communicate test results

- Defect tracking

- Participate in day-to-day QA activities

- Enhance and extend the automation library and framework

- Add to our company's performance and scalability testing efforts

- Write specialized testing tools for use in testing our software platform

- Test Automation (Preferred tools)

- Cucumber (Ruby using RubyMine)

- Cucumber.JVM/JUnit (Java using IntelliJ)

- Cucumber.js (JavaScript on a Node.js platform)

- TestComplete (VBScript)

- Quick Test Professional 9.0

- Selenium WebDriver

If you meet the above requirements and believe you would be a suitable candidate, apply now to avoid missing out on this fantastic opportunity as the role will not be on the market long.

Pearson Frank International is the UK Market Leader in Open Source and Digital recruitment. All our years of experience in the IT industry have allowed us to branch out and specialise in specific markets and we now also have dedicated teams working with in Open Source Development Technologies, Mobile Application Development and Web Application Development.

Apply now by sending your CV to - [email protected]

Or call Ben Townsend - (+44)(0)191 261 3268 (Ext 1662)

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