Software Developer in Test (SDET)

Exclaimer; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global leader in SaaS email solutions as a Software Developer in Test, where you'll enhance testing frameworks and collaborate with engineering teams. Contribute to product development with customer-focused testing in a supportive culture committed to innovation and continuous improvement in a remote role.

Benefits

Healthcare and life insurance

25 days paid holiday plus public holidays

6 weeks 'work from anywhere' yearly

Contributory pension plan

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in automated software testing with strong testing background.
• Ability to create robust and scalable test frameworks.
• Proven experience collaborating with Product Management and UX.

Responsibilities

• Create automated tests to validate customer acceptance criteria.
• Improve testing efficiency and participate in planning meetings.
• Document bugs/issues and ensure proper test coverage.

Skills

Automated software testing

Collaboration

C#

Selenium

Playwright

Tools

Visual Studio Code

GitHub

Git

Behaviour-driven test frameworks

Job description

Software Developer in Test (SDET)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - Remote

Description

When you join Exclaimer you will join a global award winning SaaS provider with an exceptional revenue rate, ambitious growth plans, and an exciting work culture.

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We provide world-class email signature solutions that let organizations of any size achieve brand consistency, legal compliance, and customer engagement on any device. Designed for Microsoft 365, Google Workplace, and Microsoft Exchange, our solutions are used by over 70,000 customers in 150+ countries. Some of these customers include renowned companies such as Sony, Mattel, Bank of America, NBC, the Government of Canada, the BBC, and the Academy Awards. We have over 300 employees worldwide.

We are looking for engineers to join the team responsible for the flagship Exclaimer Cloud SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, utilizing the latest technologies in our push to expand the product’s functionality and evolve the technical platform.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Software Developer in Test to join our Engineering team. This role places you within a team of like-minded engineers, where you'll have the opportunity to identify and deliver improvements to our testing frameworks and processes and shape the strategic direction of our testing practices. You'll have the opportunity to showcase your testing expertise and enhance your skills in a supportive environment. You'll also collaborate with senior engineers across engineering to ensure we develop robust, reusable automated tests that meet the needs of both internal development teams and external end-users.

Key Responsibilities

• Creation of reliable peer-reviewed automated tests, to validate customer-focused acceptance criteria as part of an end-to-end testing lifecycle.
• Actively look to improve testing efficiency, looking for opportunities to ‘shift left’ when considering the level at which new test cases might best be created.
• Participate in planning meetings, ensuring that test effort for new features/features under development is appropriately considered and estimated.
• Ensure any bugs or issues found are appropriately documented to facilitate smooth investigation, and validate fixes to confirm resolution.
• Ensure both functional and non-functional test areas are considered where appropriate, taking a balanced view as to a suitable level of test coverage.
• Participate in code reviews for automated tests written by engineers within the team and cross-team.
• Work with other test engineers to improve testing tools & processes, identify and bring into practice any relevant potential new test tools & frameworks.
• Creating, configuring, maintaining and deploying test environments.
• Leading by example, as an individual contributor; following best testing practices and identifying improvements.
• Collaborating with the Product, UX and the wider Engineering team to define solutions to the customer’s problems and identify increments that allow the earliest possible release of value that deliver a world class user experience across multiple demographics.

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

• A desire to work in a technology focused role, testing software that solves problems for millions of users every day.
• Highly organised with attention to detail.
• Pro-actively look to understand where gaps are in our technology stack and help incorporate innovative technologies that can help with our development experience or even velocity within the teams.
• Be able to take a problem, assess possible solutions and create clean, robust, well tested solutions.
• Takes a pragmatic approach to testing, focusing effort based on risk, whilst acknowledging exhaustive testing is impossible.
• A driven individual contributor with a passion for learning and continuous improvement.
• Experience of working closely with Product Management and UX Designers to identify and collaborate on the optimal solution to the customer/technical problem.
• Excellent ability to establish trust and build relationships with peers and stakeholders across the business; you will be able to communicate clearly, succinctly, and without ambiguity.
• History of working in a fast-paced SaaS business delivering high frequency incremental delivery of customer facing functionality.

Essential Skills

• Background and previous experience in automated software testing and test tools
• Strong communicator and collaborator within team and cross-team
• Creating test cases for new and existing functionality in C#
• Behaviour-driven test frameworks such as ReqNRoll (formerly SpecFlow)
• Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Git
• Building robust and scalable test frameworks using Selenium and Playwright
• Back-end testing via RESTful APIs and queues

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of creating & modifying pipelines for test execution as part of CI/CD
• Familiarity with performance test tools such as JMeter, K6, WebSurge, Locust
• Exposure/experience in testing within a microservice environment
• Familiarity with mocking frameworks such as Wiremock, Moq, RhinoMocks
• Familiarity with remote testing tools such as BrowserStack
• Familiarity with contract testing using tools such as PACT
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure-related technologies such as Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Bicep, Terraform
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation or higher certification

Benefits

When you join Exclaimer, we offer the opportunity to grow with a thriving, international SaaS company. Alongside a competitive compensation package, you’ll have access to a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life beyond work including:

• Healthcare, life insurance, private medical, income protection.
• Enhanced parental leave (for both parents)
• 6 weeks "work from anywhere" per year
• 25 days paid holiday, plus public holidays - and an additional 10 days paid time off via XFlex.
• Contributory pension plan (5% matched, via salary sacrifice)
• Electric car scheme
• Free memberships to Blinkist and Calm
• Discounts and perks including smart home, Hussle gyms, and Ikea.

At Exclaimer, inclusion is more than a policy—it’s part of who we are.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We consider all candidates fairly and without discrimination irrespective of ethnicity, race, religion, nationality, age, gender, marital status, disability, neurodivergence, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We’re building a culture where everyone feels they belong and can thrive, and we’d love for you to be part of it.