Software Development Engineer in Test

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location: Dublin, IE

Description:

Canada Life Assurance Europe plc (‘CLE’), a company within the Great West Lifeco Group, is a life assurance company with a branch in Germany. CLE sells unit-linked pension and protection products to customers in Germany through independent brokers. We have offices in Dublin, Cologne and Neu-Isenburg (near Frankfurt).

Our brand values reflect the kind of company we are today and strive to continue to be in the future:

Ambitious: We consistently pursue our goals and constantly look for new opportunities and we are ready to go the extra mile for our customers.
Creative: Together with our partners we offer appropriate and flexible solutions that inspire.
Unconventional: We break new ground in order to offer our customers the best protection for a good life.
Better: We constantly work on our abilities and strive to offer our customers superior products and services.
Strong: Based on our performance and with the support of our Canadian parent company we look to provide the highest security for the future for our customers, partners and employees alike.
Collaborative: We move forward together, helping each other to become better and together we find good solutions both for the customer and for ourselves.
Responsible: We act transparently and fairly, and are forward-thinking and risk-aware for the benefit of our customers, partners and employees.

What we offer:

Hybrid working model – excellent city centre location with attractive working from home options;
Personal Protection – Company Pension, Death in Service Benefit, Health Insurance Allowance, Income Protection Scheme, optional Specified Illness Scheme;
Health & Wellness – Top-Class Employee Assistance Programme, Bike to Work Scheme, Policies supporting Work/Life balance, Digital Doctor to name but a few.

Role Overview

Canada Life Europe (CLE) is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who is passionate about Software Quality and has a track record for building effective automation frameworks.

Our SDETs have an in-depth knowledge of Testing Best Practices as well as a strong programming background with the ability to design and execute optimal test strategies that leverage test automation capabilities to maximum effect.

This role is crucial in ensuring the delivery of high-quality automation solutions that will ultimately help to reduce the overall manual testing effort for each release and supports our mission to provide exceptional high-quality financial services.

This role will be working within our Process Automation team focusing on developing and implementing test plans and strategies for our upcoming Process Automation initiatives. This role will involve supporting the development and execution of both the manual and automation test activities within this team.

What you will help us to achieve

Role/Responsibilities:

1. Design and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans for upcoming releases.

2. Coordinate functional testing activities and prioritize testing requirements.

3. Creation and execution of manual and automated test cases to validate software functionality.

4. Define and implement automation test strategies focusing on achieving the optimal automation approach.

5. Develop and maintain test automation frameworks to ensure efficient and effective automation testing.

6. Develop, automate, and maintain highly effective test cases leveraging automation to optimise test cycle times and the lead time for delivery of new functionality.

7. Ensure comprehensive and transparent automation test coverage for new and existing product features.

8. Responsible for application integration testing with all required systems, databases, and services.

9. Promote testing best practices within the team.

10. Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and working on continuous process improvement initiatives within the CLE Quality Practice.

11. Support migration of automation repositories from SVN to Azure Git.

12. Work closely with the development team to define and implement automation test strategies focusing on achieving the optimal automation approach.

13. Work as part of a Scrum team using Agile practices and adhering to the values and principles.

14. Work with the delivery team to contribute to successful implementations as per the release plan.

15. Support the testing as required in all other test phases for a release.

Essential Skills:

1. Strong test expertise and has in-depth experience owning and defining the test strategy for a new initiative and breaking it down into the corresponding test types and building and executing an effective automation strategy for these.

2. Has written automated frameworks using one of the following Frameworks/Libraries: Serenity, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured.

3. Experience of developing a test framework from scratch or at a minimum maintaining one.

4. Experience of using maven to build & trigger automation runs.

5. Good Java development Skills and experience of writing functional and integration automation tests.

6. Experience of writing BDD Test suites with Gherkin, Cucumber and Junit.

7. Experience of best of breed practices in relation to test delivery.

8. Has worked in highly automated CI/CD environments.

9. Excellent Java and Git skills.

10. Strong written and verbal communication skills.

What you will need to be successful in the role

Key Strengths:

1. Strong programming background with Java (3 + preferable) with experience building BDD automation frameworks for both API and UI tier validation.

2. Proven ability to create robust and stable automation tests with transparent reporting on the automated coverage.

3. Demonstrate experience working in a test-driven environment with continuous integration pipelines managing the orchestration of feature and regression test packaging & execution.

4. Demonstrate hands-on experience of testing code quality & metric production & the implementation of quality gates.

5. Strong communication skills and the ability to influence the Delivery Team on Software Quality best practices and ensuring testable high-quality software.

6. Agile tester mindset and approach that has experience defining test approaches that maximise the Return in Investment from automation and enable Continuous Delivery.

7. Proven ability to assess inefficiencies in automation strategies and the successful execution of improvement initiatives.

8. Strong database testing experience from a functional testing perspective.

Technologies & Frameworks:

Testing Frameworks/Tooling – Serenity/Cucumber, Rest Assured, Selenium.
Languages - Java, MS SQL, PowerShell & Bash
Hands-on experience of database script management using MS SQL Server or other Relational Database
Networking & Communication Protocols – DNS, TCPIP, UDP, HTTP HTTPS, SSL, FTP, SCP, SOAP & REST
Version Control Systems - Azure Devops Git
Build Automation Tools - Jenkins
Build & Dependency Management Tooling – Maven
Intelligent Document Automation Platforms – Hyperscience or similar
Azure OpenAI - ChatGBT

Desired Skills:

1. Previous experience working in Financial Services.

2. Previous experience working with Hyperscience or similar intelligent OCR platforms.

3. Written and/or oral German language.

4. Has experience of using Jenkins, for build and release management.

5. Experience developing automation solutions to validate.

Personal Strengths:

They must be a team player and provide guidance, training, and assistance to other members of the team.
Passionate about Quality with a continuous drive for improvements.

Necessary Qualifications / Skills:

Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
3rd level qualification (honours degree), preferably in a related discipline.

Key Competencies:

Planning and Organising, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Team Working & Cross Functional Collaboration, Communication & Influencing, Drive for Results.

The company reserves the right to draw up a shortlist as part of the selection process. Where Agency assistance is required the Canada Life Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Canada Life by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

Canada Life Group Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. We have created an environment of inclusion and growth to help people achieve their potential, to ensure they can bring their whole selves to work and to feel valued. We celebrate diversity of thought and perspective and want all of our employees to feel valued, respected and supported. We have built a culture that promotes equality and inclusion for all of our current and future employees and strive to ensure that our behaviours, processes and practices are aligned to this culture.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process please contact aira.vekrikaite@CanadaLife.de and we will be delighted to ensure you are fully supported to be your best.

CLGS supports Equal Opportunity and is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

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