Principal Test Engineer - London, United Kingdom - X4 Group

X4 Group
X4 Group
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London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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A cloud native software as a service firm are on the lookout for a principal test engineer to join their team on a permanent basis to support the growth of their software suite and international client base.

The principal test engineer will be joining awell-established Agile development function to take a leading role in their shift left to Test Driven Development, working with development and testing teams on both existing software products as well as greenfield projects.


The principal test engineer will take up a leading role in designing, developing and implementing the automation testing frameworks and systems to support the company's shift-left to TDD and BDD practices, ensuring that quality is built in to their productsuite from the ground up.


This position supports hybrid working, with the ideal applicant comfortable working in the London or Leicestershire office around once per week, with flexibility to work remotely around that.


Some of the principal test engineer's core responsibilities would be:

  • Creating test plans for existing and greenfield software products
  • Designing and developing test automation for the full product suite, including C#.Net Core backend, Rest APIs, and JavaScript/React frontend
  • Leading the integration of test automation into the full SDLC, including CI/CD pipeline integration/development
  • Leading the implementation of best practices and supporting upskilling amongst development and testing teams to maintain those standards

Required Experience:


  • A proven background in senior, lead and/or principal level handson testing positions
  • Strong experience developing test automation, ideally for a mixture of backend, UI and API testing
  • Selenium, Cypress, Postman etc.
  • Experience implementing or working in line with TDD and BDD environments
  • A background developing test automation for Agile software development teams

Experience with the following would be advantageous:

  • CI/CD pipeline integration and development
  • AWS or Azure cloud environments
  • Test architecture and other technical lead responsibilities
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