Software Development Engineer

Cloud Software Group; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud solutions provider in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design and implement testing strategies for products. The role emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and quality in software development. Ideal candidates are self-motivated, with skills in C#, testing frameworks, and automation tools. Flexibility for remote work with occasional office visits is available.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and takes ownership of projects.
• Able to learn quickly and work effectively in a team.
• Experience in automated testing and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement flexible testing solutions.
• Collaborate with internal teams for solution delivery.
• Participate in technical forums and team reviews.

Skills

Understanding of software development and testing principles

Experience in C# or equivalent language

Agile environment

Experience with testing frameworks (NUnit, Robot Framework, Playwright)

Automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

Tools

ReportPortal

Allure Report

Testing and reporting tools

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in the StoreFront team with a focus on testing, you will be working alongside our developers to design and implement our long term test strategy for our products, allowing us to make faster changes to our services, and enabling modernisation of our code base, helping to deliver world-class software solutions to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement flexible testing solutions for our development teams.
• Influence and collaborate with internal teams to ensure the end to end delivery of solutions.
• Help drive world-class software solutions for our customers.
• Participate in technical forums and contribute to cultural and technical enhancements.
• Participate in reviews of work and designs produced by colleagues.
• Create documentation of agreed upon designs and implementation details.
• Participate as an active member of a product development team, taking part in planning and daily standups.
• Participate in on-call escalations when needed.
• Primarily remote with the option to work in our Cambridge office 2-3 times per week.

Qualifications

• You understand software development and testing principles, and apply those to craft code and test scenarios that's easy to understand, modify, and collaborate on. You also understand quality, resiliency and supportability.
• If you're a self-motivated engineer who enjoys taking ownership and making a tangible impact, we want to hear from you!
• You know C# or an equivalent language, preferably with some coding experience in other stacks or languages (Go, Node.js, Rust, etc.).
• Able to learn fast, be inquisitive and work within an agile environment.
• You have experience in testing frameworks such as NUnit, Robot Framework, Playwright.
• You have worked with testing and reporting tools such as ReportPortal, Allure Report, ReportNG.
• Quality is important to you and you have seen the value in automated testing and CI / CD.
• You have experience with automation tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef.

Nice to have

• You have experience with container based software development (eg, Docker, Kubernetes).
• You understand build systems and the complexities of packaging and shipping software.
• You have experience working with Cloud providers (ideally Azure).
• You have experience with Sys-Admin responsibilities such as Active Directory management.
• You have experience with the Citrix product suite.

About StoreFront and Cloud Software Group

The StoreFront Services team, based in Cambridge UK develops Citrix StoreFront, the sole access layer for our Desktop-as-a-Service solutions. Our systems pull data from several components to provide information consumed by clients for mobile, desktop and the web. While maintaining a focus on scalability, reliability and security, we also work on new features and transformation projects across the full technology stack. More details are available at https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-daas/citrix-storefront.html

Our teams work on varied projects and are empowered to use Scrum or Kanban as it best suits their needs. Our teams embrace curiosity and integrity in everything we do and are made of creative problem solvers, who love learning and are passionate about sharing and growing. Cloud Software Group is one of the world's largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done - from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.