Accenture Hiring for Software Development Engineer in Test Job at Remote Full Time

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location: Remote with ad-hoc site visits (London)

Term: 6-12 months

Rate: up to £460 per day (inside IR35 via Umbrella Company)

• A short description of the job*

We’re looking for an SDET to help define and implement the testing strategy across our products. Working in customer-focused agile squads, you’ll be collaborating with product managers, designers and engineers to define the next iteration of our client.

You’ll work closely with software engineers from all specialisms to discover and build solutions that ensure reliable and scalable testing of our software. A primary focus being to deliver a high-quality, secure product to our customers, at pace.

You will bring knowledge of some of the following technologies, as these are used across the stack: backend (Java), web frontend (React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript), mobile apps (iOS, Android, React Native) . It’s likely that you’ll have a software engineering background , have an automation first mindset, and have worked with and deployed continuously delivered, distributed systems (microservices)

• Key Responsibilities*

• Working collaboratively across our missions to define and continually improve our testing strategy for new and existing products

• Develop clean, elegant, and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend

• Build scalable automated testing systems that enables us to ship value to customers at pace

• Support other engineers to test their software and act as a subject matter expert

• Work with stakeholders across the business to shape the future of quality engineering at our client and put long-term interests of our customers at the heart of key decisions

• Drive the direction of our testing chapter to ensure it maintains the highest standards of technology and process

• What we’re looking for*

• Excellent programming skills in a modern programming language (we predominantly work with Java and JavaScript/TypeScript)

• Hands-on experience with common back-end and front-end test automation frameworks, and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline

• Knowledge of software performance and automated security testing techniques and tooling

• Awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration

• A strong understanding of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)

Experience delivering and testing distributed microservices as part of an agile team

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Salary: Up to £460.00 per day

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote