SDET (Front End)

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test to join customer-focused agile squads. You will define and drive testing strategy, collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to enhance quality and ship value at pace.

You’ll build scalable automated testing systems, support other engineers, and contribute to shaping the future of quality engineering at NatWest Group, aligning long-term customer interests with delivery decisions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with common back end test automation frameworks.
• Awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Define and continually improve testing strategy for new and existing products.
• Drive the direction of the testing chapter to maintain high standards.
• Develop clean, reusable code and scalable automated testing systems.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to shape quality decisions.

Skills

Test automation

BDD

Distributed microservices

Agile team

Cloud awareness

Tools

ReactNative

CI/CD pipelines

Automation tooling

Job description

Join us as a Software Development Engineer in Test

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Development Engineer in Test
• Work in customer-focused agile squads and collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define the next iteration of Mettle.
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

You’ll be working collaboratively across our missions to define and continually improve our testing strategy for new and existing products. You'll also drive the direction of our testing chapter to ensure it maintains the highest standards of technology and process.

You’ll also be:

• Developing clean, elegant and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend
• Building scalable automated testing systems that enable us to ship value to customers at pace
• Supporting other engineers to test their software and act as a subject matter expert
• Working with stakeholders across the business to shape the future of quality engineering at NatWest Boxed and put long-term interests of our customers at the heart of key decisions

The skills you’ll need

You’ll need hands‑on experience with common back end test automation frameworks, and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline. We are also looking for people with an awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration.

You’ll also need:

• Hands on experience with ReactNative, front-end test automation frameworks and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline
• Knowledge of software performance and automates security testing techniques and tooling
• A strong understanding of Behaviour‑Driven Development (BDD)
• Experience delivering and testing distributed microservices as part of an agile team