As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will use your coding and testing experience to design and build software solutions and utilities to aid testing. Additionally, as a member of the test team, you may be required to perform other testing activities, so some experience in software testing is essential. The aim is to play a key role in an activity that will enable and enhance testing of Kinderpedia SaaS web and mobile platform.

This role requires someone with a development background, who is also comfortable with testing practices.

Your role will be:

• Adopt, impove, and advocate for our vision for the quality of Kinderpedia products
• Develop and enhance test components, services and utilities within a domain-based service-oriented platform hosted on AWS cloud.
• Facilitate testing of the platform which includes utilities for identity and access, service mesh, logging, messaging, monitoring, composable UI, administration, storage management.
• Perform activities supporting automation of test cases on the test team. This includes test definition, automation, framework creation & maintenance, code reviews, etc.
• Perform general activities to support the test team as required.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to find effective solutions to testing challenges
• Coordination and the logging of defects.
• Write and review technical proposals
• Take personal accountability for the timeliness and quality of deliverables, working on assigned tasks as part of a team.
• Work with product owners and other team members to understand requirements
• Make it easy for engineers to contribute and enhance tests
• Collaborate with engineering teams to reproduce complex scenarios discovered in our own testing or reported by customers and write regression tests to fix and prevent them
• Share design, process, and architecture learnings with other team members. Assist colleagues in an open way and guide more junior team members.
• Take opportunities for training and learning to keep up to date with industry trends and standards in the ed-tech industry and the wider software engineering domain
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Join us if you have experience with:

• Languages → Java, Gherkin, HTML
• Frameworks → Cucumber BDD, Data Driven
• IDEs Tools → Eclipse, IntelliJ, SQL Developer, Postman
• Testing platform/ Tools → Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium Grid, Cucumber,
• JDBC, RestAssured Library
• Mobile Testing → Appium or any others tools for Mobile Testing
• Design patterns → Page Object Model (POM), Singleton
• Version Control Tool → Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
• Project management Tool → Atlassian Pack, Jira
• Project methodology → Agile-Scrum

You may be a good fit for our team if:

• You are kind and collaborative
• You enjoy working remote with people from different places
• The software you write is sympathetic to the humans who will maintain it
• You care deeply about software quality and operability, and better ways of building software
• Value clear, open communication. We value thoughtful feedback and regular dialogue and collaboration as a fundamental skill for our team members
• Demonstrate excellent time management skills and the ability to make realistic assessments of product complexity

What does success in this role look like?

• In three months, you’ll have made a material impact by validating the correctness of software through the introduction and enhancement of reliable tests and are effectively collaborating on the design of new features and their specifications
• In six months, you have established a cadence of predictable, on-time delivery without cutting corners
• In twelve months, you have earned the trust of the team and are delivering tasks through the entire SDLC, from design through development with minimal guidance and have established yourself as the “go-to” person for the behavior of several parts of the system

Equality and Diversity:

Kinderpedia is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.

We offer:

• an energising, dynamic, safe and social working environment for our team, we ensure our team feel supported and empowered to deliver the best results. We challenge our team to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work.
• the chance to actively shape our success and to grow with your tasks and responsibilities
• plenty of room for your own ideas...space to try, fail and learn!
• we celebrate our success regularly at joint team and company events
• flexible working. Our team love our office environment. But flexibility is key. Our team like to balance a mix of home and office working.
• teambuilding with colleagues from other countries;
• a clear career development framework. We like to upskill and promote quickly.
• a motivated and diverse international team, which consists not only of work colleagues, but friends
• competitive salary, dependent on experience
• discretionary bonus