Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry. You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We offer:

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
• Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement

QA and Automation at Capco:

• Be creating, driving and building test strategies that are robust, reusable and scalable.
• Be responsible for creating detailed test artefacts such as test plans, test specifications, automated tests, defect tickets and reports.
• Be managing test environments, test devices, defining and creating consistent test data and reports.
• Work with both your team and other cross functional teams to plan and execute tests using the latest UI/Mobile test automation technologies, processes and tools to deliver frequently, safely and efficiently for millions of banking & financial customers.
• Collaborate with architects to ensure solutions adhere to their principles and direction.
• Lead, mentor, up-skill and inspire other automation engineers.
• Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent.
• Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.
• Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment.
• Have a passion for being part of a team that is forming the future of finance.

About you:

Capco is looking for hardworking, innovative and creative people to join our Digital Engineering team. We’d also like to see:

• Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement.
• Have expertise in a set of the team’s domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems.
• Able to work individually or with teams drawing on experience to recommend tooling and solutions aligning with organisational strategies.
• Influences organisation wide testing strategy.
• Architects services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Guides teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimise the cost of future changes.
• Actively contributes to security designs based on the organisation’s security strategy.
• Fosters a security first mindset across teams, and leads by example.
• Has advanced knowledge of key security technologies, protocols & techniques (e.g. TLS, OAuth, Encryption, Networks).
• Be comfortable managing engineers ensuring they are tracking the team’s efficiency and quality of work, they assist in regularly adjusting processes and timelines to ensure high quality work is delivered.
• Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to customers.
• Have played a role in the delivery of critical business applications and ideally customer facing applications.
• Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.
• Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment.
• Have a passion for being part of the engineering team that is forming the future of finance.

Skills & Expertise:

• Test automation experience of ReST and SOAP based APIs and Web Services using single and multi-threading.
• Experience of test and issue management tools e.g. Jira, RTC, TestRail and Quality Centre.
• CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Stash, SonarQube, Performance centre.
• Background as a developer preferred.
• Load and Performance Testing experience – Load Runner, Performance Centre and JMeter or similar tools.
• PaaS/IaaS – OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure & Cloudbees.
• DevOps processes and experience.
• Have strong experience delivering to AAA accessibility standards and usability principles.
• Experience migrating on-premise solutions to a cloud ecosystem.

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different.

Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.