SDET (Front End)

Royal Bank of Scotland; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test to join our customer-focused squads and help define the next iteration of our testing strategy.

You'll collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to ship value quickly, building scalable automated testing systems and guiding the testing chapter to maintain high standards of quality and reliability.

Remote First working arrangements are available, with 35 hours per week. Closing date: 22/10/2026.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with test automation in back-end and front-end contexts.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and configuration.
• Understanding of performance testing and security testing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Define and improve testing strategy for new and existing products.
• Drive the testing chapter to high standards.
• Develop clean, reusable test code.
• Build scalable automated testing systems.
• Support engineers to test their software as SME.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape quality direction.

Skills

ReactNative

Test automation

CI/CD

BDD

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Automated testing frameworks

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

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

22/10/2026

Ways of Working

Remote First