Kubernetes jobs in United Kingdom

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The Senior SDET role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow SDETs, reporting into a Tribe QA Engineering Manager. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong automated UI testing experience, ideally in Playwright
• Strong coding ability in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communication skills: written & verbal
• Strong understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
• Strong knowledge of Containerisation tools, such as Docker
• Experience with AWS (public cloud).
• Strong knowledge of Datadog
• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions, in a micro services environment, across large cloud-native architectures
• Has designed, developed and evolved the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
• Comfortable challenging the status quo
• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs
• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
• The ability to technically analyze a problem and a solution and recognize the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Strong automated UI testing experience, ideally in Playwright
• Strong coding ability in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communication skills: written & verbal
• Strong understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
• Strong knowledge of Containerization tools, such as Docker
• Experience with AWS (public cloud)
• Strong knowledge of Datadog
• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions, in a micro services environment, across large cloud-native architectures
• Has designed, developed and evolved the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
• Comfortable challenging the status quo
• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs
• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
• The ability to technically analyze a problem and a solution and recognize the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders
• Contract testing experience, ideally with Pact/Pact flow
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS)
• Kafka experience.
• Experience with mocking tools such as Wire mock
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.