What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Development Engineer in Test position at LMAX Group?
The Software Development Team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the software products for the LMAX Group. The Development team operates in as much of a collective ‘DevOps’ manner as is possible for a regulated industry. Testers are integral to the software development process and support the automated test-first approach that ensures high levels of product quality. Testers create, maintain, and manage test environments and perform free-ranging exploratory testing and discovery.
Core Responsibilities:
- Care deeply about and be uncompromising about product quality.
- Support the development team in delivering the best possible user experience.
- Set testing best practices, tools, and techniques, drawing on the prevailing LMAX approach.
- Develop and maintain the testing framework and supporting infrastructure.
- Write automated acceptance tests, including automating existing manual regression tests.
- Manual exploratory testing during sprints.
- Support team to write effective acceptance criteria.
- Pair with developers to help identify test cases.
- Share a monthly report with the tech team summarizing progress and blockers.
- Develop and maintain a broad understanding of the codebase.
- Strive to achieve annual performance review goals as agreed.
- Document relevant information to serve as a knowledge base for testing activities.
General:
- Experience with Cypress, JUnit, Jasmine, Karma, Mockito, Java, Angular, MongoDB, and AWS.
- Share knowledge and skills with colleagues through brown bags, intranet, etc.
- Identify, escalate, and, where possible, mitigate potential risks impacting delivery or the team.
- Promote a culture of uncompromisingly high delivery standards, where shortcuts are avoided, and team members recognize it as normal to do the right thing.
- Provide relevant positive or negative feedback directly to team members as soon as possible.
- Work with Business Analysts, Developers, and Business Stakeholders to gather test requirements.
- Communicate test requirements via user stories, acceptance criteria, test conditions, charters, and, if necessary, test plans and specifications.
- Working with the development team to maintain and expand the test framework.
- Monitoring test coverage and obtaining feedback on testing with the Head of Technology to ensure the desired coverage level is obtained.
- Help to support the system in production.
Once more advanced into the role:
- Develop automated performance and load tests and facilitate disaster recovery tests
- Engage in LMAX technical PR, e.g., occasional blogging or external talks.
- Help grow the testing team and manage new testers.
- Apply your experience to guide team decision-making and accelerate problem-solving.
- Act as an example to colleagues regarding technology skills and process adherence.
- Mentor colleagues on testing technology and processes.
- 25 days PTO
- Generous funding pot for training courses and conferences
- Pension: 401K
- Private medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- TriNet Platform
- Wellness contribution program with access to ClassPass
- Plumm Platform
- Five volunteering days
