Senior Software Engineer ID206079

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Software Engineer.
Business: IWPB Technology
Req ID: 37476
Principal responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated test frameworks for API, UI, and integration testing.
- Develop reliable, maintainable test code using engineering best practices (clean code, reviews, refactoring).
- Create automated coverage for: functional regression, integration and end-to-end flows, negative and edge-case scenarios.
- Implement API test automation (REST/JSON, auth, contract/schema validation).
- Implement UI automation using modern tools (e.g., Selenium) with stable selectors and good synchronisation.
- Design and manage test data (seed data, mocks/stubs, synthetic data, environment readiness).
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates (smoke/regression suites, reporting, flaky test management).
- Support non-functional testing where needed (performance basics, resilience checks, accessibility checks).
- Improve observability for testing: logs, screenshots, traces, and actionable failure reporting.
- Collaborate with engineers to shift-left quality: participate in refinement, define acceptance criteria, and review changes for testability.
- Track and report quality metrics (pass rate, defect leakage, flaky rate, coverage of critical journeys).
- Use AI tools to accelerate QA engineering tasks, such as:
1. generating test scenarios from user stories and acceptance criteria (including negative and boundary cases)
2. drafting automation code scaffolding (page objects, API clients, test templates) and refactoring repetitive code
3. generating and improving assertions, test data sets, and edge-case coverage
4. summarising pipeline failures/logs and proposing likely root causes and next checks
5. drafting documentation (README, test strategy notes, release test summaries)
- Validate AI-generated outputs through review, execution, and peer feedback—treating AI as an accelerator, not an authority.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in at least one language:Java / Kotlin, C#/.NET, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript
- Solid understanding of test automation patterns:Page Object / Screenplay (UI), test pyramids, AAA pattern, fixtures, mocking
- API testing expertise: REST principles, JSON, status codes, auth (OAuth2/JWT), schema/contract validation
- UI automation experience with one or more: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium
- CI/CD experience: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps; running tests headlessly; publishing reports
- Version control and collaboration: Git, pull requests, code reviews, branching strategies
- Debugging and troubleshooting: isolate failures, analyse logs, identify flaky tests, propose fixes
- Quality engineering fundamentals: risk-based testing, boundary/negative testing, defect lifecycle, clear reporting
- Practical experience using AI coding/testing assistants (e.g., IDE copilots) to improve readability and consistency of test code
Additional skills will be good to have
- Performance testing exposure (k6, JMeter, Gatling) and interpreting results.
- Contract testing (Pact) and service virtualisation (WireMock, Mountebank).
- Containerisation and environments: Docker, Kubernetes basics.
- Cloud familiarity (Azure/AWS/GCP) and test execution in cloud pipelines.
- Security testing awareness (OWASP Top 10, SAST/DAST basics).
- Observability tooling (Splunk/ELK, App Insights, Datadog) and distributed tracing.
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