Associate SDET

BlueOptima; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2

Remote work option

32 days holiday

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Remote work 4 weeks/year

Leave purchase

Work from home equipment

Pet friendly office

Sponsored learning

Cycle2work

Team socials

Job summary

BlueOptima seeks an Associate SDET to automate tests for scalable components deployed remotely. The Belfast team develops automated UI and API tests, focusing on data-centric and integration cases, and integrates tests with CI/CD for smooth delivery.

The role emphasizes attention to detail, collaboration with engineers, and ownership of the QA process end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related technical discipline (recent grads encouraged).
• Experience writing code in an object-oriented language such as Java.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, Subversion.
• Academic projects or internships involving test automation (prefer Selenium and Java).
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks such as JUnit or TestNG.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering and architecture to implement automation plans and achieve adequate automation coverage.
• Create and maintain test automation (UI and API) within CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure expected behavior of code prior to product releases.
• Increase overall coverage of automation suite.
• Curate reports for stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Test automation

Selenium

JUnit

TestNG

Linux command-line

Python

Shell scripting

Distributed systems testing

Git

Subversion

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using its proprietary Coding Effort Analytics, enabling large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is a profitable, independent software company whose core technology was originally devised in research carried out at Cambridge University.

Headquartered in London, UK, BlueOptima operates through subsidiaries and offices across the UK, India, Mexico, the United States and Japan. Its technology is deployed by global enterprises — including Fortune 50 companies, major global banks and leading S&P constituents — to drive value from their software development activities, running complex analytics over very large source-code data sets.

BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Job Description

We are seeking an Associate SDET, with experience in automating tests for scalable application components, which are remotely deployed. Our distributed solution requires highly motivated and talented engineers to understand the depth of the problem and ensure its quality is maintained to a high standard.

We are looking for an individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, committed and not only passionate about technology, but is keen to own the solution end to end and collaborate with other engineers to improve the QA process.

Your team

The Belfast team at BlueOptima caters to all current and upcoming product changes in Active MultiSite, which is our distributed version control solution. The team develops and maintains sets of automated test cases across UI and API, focusing on data-centric as well as integration test cases.

The team is responsible for making sure that manual efforts, and in turn the release cycles, are reduced by automating tests based on priority, along with integrating the test suites with CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of features and products in an automated manner.

Responsibilities and tasks

the role will focus on, but not exclusively, the following:

• Work with engineering and architecture to implement the plan developed for automating test cases and ensuring adequate automation coverage
• Create and maintain of test automation (both UI and API) within CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure the expected behaviour of code prior to product releases
• Increase overall coverage of automation suite
• Curate reports for the stakeholders

Qualifications

Key Proficiencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related technical discipline with projects work on automation and testing (recent graduates encouraged to apply)
• Experience writing code in an Object-Oriented language such as Java
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, Subversion

Desired Skills

• Academic projects, internships, or practical experience involving test automation (preferably using Selenium and Java)
• Basic understanding of testing distributed systems
• Exposure to Linux administration, command-line usage, and scripting (Shell, Bash, Python)
• Knowledge of virtualization/containerization technologies (e.g., Docker)
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks such as JUnit or TestNG

Additional Information

Benefits

• Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 remote
• 32 days holiday including bank holidays
• 12 weeks paid maternity and paternity leave
• 4 weeks per year flexible remote working from anywhere
• Annual Leave purchase (up to 10 extra days)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Pet friendly office
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme
• Team Socials

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