SDET: Cloud-First QA Engineer for AWS Apps

Legalandgeneral; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan

25 days holiday plus holidays

Electric car scheme

Job summary

Legal & General is seeking an experienced SDET to join the engineering team, building, testing and supporting scalable, secure, cloud-based applications on AWS. You’ll shape testing strategies, improve platform reliability and drive engineering excellence across modern solutions.

You will work with Java or JVM-based languages, implement test-driven development, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments while mentoring peers and promoting continuous learning in an Agile

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing and testing enterprise applications using Java or other JVM-based languages.
• Proven expertise with AWS cloud services including serverless and containerised solutions.
• Knowledge of software testing practices, including test-driven development and automation frameworks.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines, source control processes and automated deployment practices.
• Good understanding of microservices, distributed systems, APIs and modern software architecture patterns.
• Knowledge of web security and secure software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Building and enhancing high-quality software features and automated testing solutions across cloud-based applications
• Analysing complex technical challenges and resolving end-to-end issues across distributed systems
• Defining and implementing test strategies that improve quality, security, usability and accessibility
• Conducting code reviews and promoting engineering best practices across functional and non-functional requirements
• Driving improvements in CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes and platform reliability
• Collaborating with engineers to reduce technical debt and evolve application architecture
• Mentoring colleagues, sharing technical knowledge and contributing to a culture of continuous learning
• Researching emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to improve products, tooling and ways of working

Skills

Java

AWS

Test automation

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Security testing

Agile

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Legal & General is seeking an experienced SDET to join the engineering team, building, testing and supporting scalable, secure, cloud-based applications on AWS. You’ll shape testing strategies, improve platform reliability and drive engineering excellence across modern solutions.

You will work with Java or JVM-based languages, implement test-driven development, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments while mentoring peers and promoting continuous learning in an Agile