At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead quality engineering and build automation frameworks for exciting projects.
- Company: Join Numiko, a forward-thinking tech company with a focus on collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 30 days holiday, and a generous work/life balance.
- Other info: Great opportunities for career progression and personal development funding.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in quality assurance for universities, museums, and charities.
- Qualifications: Experience in QA, automation frameworks, and strong collaboration skills.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Own quality engineering at Numiko.
Overview
You'll own quality engineering at Numiko, setting the strategy, building the automation framework, and acting as the most trusted QA voice across our Drupal‑powered client projects for universities, museums, and charities and more.
- Qualities
- Deeply knowledgeable about QA and generous in sharing that knowledge with developers, PMs, and leadership.
- Decisive, making sound, timely calls even with incomplete information, understanding broader project implications.
- Builder, energized by creating from scratch rather than maintaining established work.
- Comfortable working across disciplines, coaching developers, advising PMs, and influencing leadership.
- Resilient, calm under pressure, taking ownership of problems and avoiding passing responsibility.
- Core Responsibilities & Skills
- Hands‑on Playwright experience
- page object models, fixtures, parallel execution, trace‑based debugging. (Essential)
- Automation framework design
- building from scratch, test data strategies, environment configuration, retry and reporting patterns. (Essential)
- CI/CD & Tooling
- Configure automated test execution and quality gating within CI/CD pipelines. (Essential)
- Read and contribute to pipeline configuration written by others. (Essential)
- Familiarity with test reporting tools such as Allure or Playwright HTML reporter. (Desirable)
- Version control
- Git, branching strategies, pull request workflows, synchronising test code with feature development. (Essential)
- Comfortable using AI tooling for code generation, test authoring, and defect triage, writing effective prompts and exercising critical judgment. (Essential)
- Backend & CMS Knowledge
- Familiar with Drupal or equivalent CMS – content types, views, user roles, permissions, and caching, to write tests that reflect real behaviour. (Desirable)
- Working knowledge of PHP to read and understand code under test. (Desirable)
- Experience testing RESTful APIs, including authentication flows and session handling. (Essential)
- Collaboration & Documentation
- Proficient in Jira or similar for issue tracking, workflow management, bug reporting, and testing progress communication. (Essential)
- Write and maintain clear, concise documentation to help developers, PMs, clients, and future team members. (Essential)
- Strong manual testing skills – exploratory testing, regression testing, validating complex user journeys alongside automated coverage. (Essential)
- Accessibility & Standards
- Understand WCAG 2.2 AA standards and test for compliance using automated tools and manual techniques. (Essential)
- Leadership & Process
- Senior SDET or QA lead experience, owning a testing discipline rather than contributing. (Essential)
- Define and communicate a quality strategy – test plans, coverage standards, risk‑based prioritisation across projects. (Essential)
- Nice to haves
- Performance testing experience (k6, Lighthouse CI) or automated accessibility tooling (axe‑core, Pa11y).
- Security testing experience.
- Agency or consultancy background.
- ISTQB Advanced certification.
Benefits
- Salary: £55,000‑£65,000, with great opportunities for progression.
- 30 days holiday, including birthday off.
- Generous work/life balance – expect to work in the office at least two days a week.
- Numikon Fund – a yearly budget for personal development or nice items.
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Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in Leeds employer: Numiko
At Numiko, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture where quality engineering is at the forefront of our mission. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you'll enjoy a generous work/life balance, with 30 days of holiday and opportunities for personal development through our Numikon Fund. Join us in making a meaningful impact across diverse projects for universities, museums, and charities, while advancing your career in a supportive environment that values knowledge sharing and professional growth.
We think you need these skills to ace Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in Leeds
Playwright
Automation Framework Design
CI/CD Pipelines
Test Reporting Tools
Version Control (Git)
AI Tooling for Code Generation
Backend & CMS Knowledge (Drupal)
