Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Sabeo Contracting Services Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Dublin is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test for a 6-month contract. The role requires defining testing strategies, automating test frameworks, and ensuring extensive test coverage. Ideal candidates will have strong Java skills and experience with BDD and CI practices in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years programming experience with Java and building BDD automation frameworks.
• Experience developing or maintaining test frameworks.
• Proven ability to define and own test strategies for new features.

Responsibilities

• Define the test strategy for new functionalities focusing on optimal testing approaches.
• Responsible for application integration testing with systems, databases, and services.
• Develop, automate, and maintain test cases leveraging automation.

Skills

Java

Automation Frameworks

Test-Driven Development

Continuous Integration

BDD Testing

Tools

Serenity

Selenium

Cucumber

Rest Assured

Maven

Job description

Software Development Engineer in Test

Dublin city centre (Hybrid role – 2 days per week onsite)

Initially 6 months daily rate contract

Role:

• Define the test strategy for new functionality focusing on achieving the optimal test approach for all functional and non-functional scope.
• Responsible for all areas of test automation, including building maintaining and documenting adopted Test Automation Frameworks.
• Develop, automate, and maintain highly effective test cases leveraging automation to optimise test cycle times and the lead time for delivery of new functionality.
• Ensure comprehensive and transparent test coverage for new and existing product features.
• Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices.
• Responsible for application integration testing with all required systems, databases, and services.
• Works closely with the Software Engineers to understand the codebase and the unit test coverage and to ensure the testability for a given feature.

Key Strengths

• Strong programming background with Java (3 + preferable) with experience building BDD automation frameworks for both API and UI tier validation.
• Proven ability to create robust and stable automated integration/functional/regression tests with transparent reporting on the automated coverage.
• Demonstrate experience working in a test-driven environment with continuous integration pipelines managing the orchestration of feature and regression test packaging & execution.
• Demonstrate hands on experience of testing code quality & metric production & the implementation of quality gates.

Essential Skills:

• Has written automated frameworks using one of the following Frameworks/Libraries: Serenity, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured.
• Experience of developing a test framework from scratch or at a minimum maintaining one.
• Experiencing owning and defining the test strategy for new features and breaking it down into the corresponding test types and building and executing an effective automation strategy for these.
• Experience of using an automated maven build, to trigger tests.
• Excellent knowledge of the maven lifecycle.
• Good Java development Skills and experience of writing unit, integration and BDD Tests.
• Experience of writing BDD Test suites with Gherkin, Cucumber and Junit.