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Location: Cambridge Hybrid
About the Company
Wedo has teamed up with one of the most forward-thinking InsurTechs in the game to find a Senior SDET / Architect who’s ready to make waves.
They’ve got a 60-strong Quality Engineering community of practice split between two UK hubs and in Cambridge, you’ll be the name everyone knows when it comes to quality, testing, reliability, security, and monitoring.
Their claim to fame is their Cloud-based SaaS platform used all over the world, giving customers the power to scale up or down instantly without the pain of buying or installing extra hardware.
About the Role
This isn’t a “keep the lights on” role. This is a “change the way we work” role.
You’ll be hired to lead the migration from a legacy Selenium framework to Cypress and clear out years of technical debt in API automation (built on RestSharp). Why? To build a more robust API testing capability and slash release cycles.
You’ll be the person in the room who’s thinking, “How does this impact the customer?” while also pushing the boundaries on scalability, performance, load, security, and monitoring. This product lives or dies by those things and you’ll own them from a testing perspective.
Expect to be the voice of risk in engineering, making smart calls on what’s acceptable and what isn’t. You’ll run workshops, upskill teams, champion best practices, and drive cultural change around quality.
It’s not purely a performance testing gig and they want someone who’s equally dangerous in functional and non-functional.
What You’ll Need
* You’ve been a Senior or Lead IC for a while with hands-on, but also enabling and guiding others. Likely someone who’s gone down the leadership route but felt their skills were better put being a techy rather than a leader.
* You can code in multiple languages ideally TypeScript and C# however if you’re from another OO background and happy to cross-train, that works (Java or Python)
* You’ve got enough years behind you to lean on storied and win hearts and minds when it comes to influencing change and standing up for quality.
* You’ve worked closely with DevOps teams on CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting and get hands on with it.
* You’ve done enterprise-level microservices and API automation. Knowing how to build frameworks at scale.
* You’ve been hands-on with performance testing…not just talk about it.
* You’ve worked with Enterprise SaaS or Azure infrastructure.
Bonus Points For:
* Contract testing with Pact.
* 15% annual bonus
* Private healthcare & critical illness cover
* Electric car scheme
* Free parking
Interview Process
* 30-min chat with the QA Manager
* Take-home technical challenge
* 1-hour deep dive with the Engineering Manager & Director of QA
To apply, please send your CV to Jack Cole along with the reason why you feel your experience meets the criteria set. Please don’t just tools. Context matters.
Sponsorship is something that can be considered for a single application.
Seniority level
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Mid-Senior level
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Information Technology
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Financial Services and Insurance
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