Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location: Derry/Londonderry or Cambridge, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full Time

Overview

We’re looking for a motivated Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our 3DVis Cloud team at AVEVA. You’ll support the delivery of best-in-class 3D visualisation and XR (Extended Reality) cloud streaming technologies, supporting AVEVA’s industrial software portfolio. Your work will help ensure our cloud and on‑premises solutions meet high standards of quality, robustness, and security. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career who is excited by test automation, quality engineering, and cloud technologies, and who wants to grow their skills with support from experienced engineers within a collaborative, scaled agile (SAFe) environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers and SDET engineers to help define, implement, and execute functional and non‑functional test coverage for our product.
• Assist in enhancing our test automation by extending and creating automated tests using C#.
• Support automated test execution by investigating failures and helping to maintain automated test runs within a continuous integration environment.
• Use Azure DevOps (Test Plans and Pipelines) to support regression testing cycles.
• Participate in improving our testing practices by identifying gaps in test coverage and proposing new test cases or automation improvements for review by senior engineers.
• Assist in maintaining our production systems by helping investigate production issues and contributing preventative improvements, such as strengthening test coverage and automation.

Essential Requirements

• Education: A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Up to 2 years of experience in a technical role (internships count).
• Technical Skills (You don’t need all of these—just a willingness to learn):
• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Foundational experience in or understanding of functional testing; exposure to non‑functional testing is a plus.
• Foundational experience or understanding of C# and willingness to learn test automation practices.
• Team‑oriented and collaborative, with clear communication and strong organisational skills, able to collaborate effectively, take initiative and progress issues with support from others.
• Methodical, proactive “can‑do” attitude with a strong learning mindset and desire to grow technical depth.

Desired Skills And Competencies

• Understanding of or exposure to CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to NUnit or similar test frameworks.
• Aware of Azure or other cloud services.

UK Benefits

• Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.

Hybrid working

By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office‑based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third‑party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

Equal Opportunity / Accommodations

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.