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Senior Software Engineer in Test
£18,000 - 19,500
SoCode Limited
Bevis Marks 6, Canary Wharf
£18,000 - 19,500
Requirements
Must:
- A solid engineering foundation, backed by significant hands-on experience in test automation.
- Deep familiarity with Java or JavaScript/TypeScript-based automation, including modern UI and API testing approaches.
- Comfort working across React-based front ends, RESTful services, and distributed architectures.
- Experience operating in environments without a dedicated QA function, where quality is owned collectively.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate clearly with engineers and stakeholders alike.
- Bonus points for exposure to cloud-native platforms, particularly AWS.
- Working knowledge of containerised environments.
- Experience with performance or resilience testing.
- Familiarity with workflow engines, event-driven systems, or highly distributed platforms.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining automated coverage across the stack, from APIs through to user journeys, using established internal tooling and frameworks.
- Evolving existing test frameworks where required, while staying aligned with core engineering standards.
- Working closely with frontend and backend engineers to ensure critical paths are well understood, well tested, and production-ready.
- Participating in code and design discussions with a quality-first lens across the full delivery lifecycle.
- Applying targeted exploratory testing early, where automation is still catching up with new functionality.
- Ensuring automated testing is a first-class citizen within CI/CD, enabling fast and reliable releases.
- Validating business-critical workflows within post-trade / collateral-style domains, where correctness really matters.
Description
We are a large fintech business located in London, seeking a senior-level quality engineer with a strong software engineering mindset. Our team operates in a shared ownership model alongside Java and React developers, emphasizing automation. This is a contract role for a minimum of 6 months, with a competitive daily rate of £600-£650. We value a collaborative environment and are committed to safeguarding new UI and platform capabilities across complex workflow-driven systems.
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