Senior Software Development Engineer in Test needed at Mimecast

What You’ll Do

• As a SDET within the GCI and TRR teams, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our software quality is excellent and our code and deployments are constituently maintaining high quality and continually validated.  Your responsibilities will include:
• Contribute to planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Build out test strategies and plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed.
• Refine acceptance criteria into testable units and convert those into automated tests that execute efficiently and reliably.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and ensure successful automation as part of our standard build process.
• Occasional manual testing when automation is not an option.
• Report, reproduce, and help development resolve defects, emphasis on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and prevention of similar issues in the future.
• Freely debate ideas and rally behind decisions.
• Pushing for continual improvement in everything we do.
• Apply technology trends and industry innovations to our products and take initiatives.
• Utilizing and embracing AI tools to assist in Quality Engineering activities.

What You’ll Bring

• Domain experience in Quality Engineering, especially automated testing.
• Experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units.
• Full-stack experience in automated testing, validating both front-end and back-end interfaces, including RESTful API endpoints and web-based user interfaces.
• Solid object-oriented programming skills and string experience automating in Java, JavaScript, typescript or similar.
• Experience on building and scaling tests using frameworks like Junit/TestNg and/or Cypress/Playwright.
• Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS and utilising its SDK to interact with Cloud Services for testing.
• Familiarity working with databases and an ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins and working with pipelines.
• Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server.
• Experience/knowledge in leveraging AI tools in building agents, using for reviews and generating skeleton code.
• Some experience/familiarity with performance/scalability testing.
• Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen.