Senior Developer in Engineering Test – Storage

Senior Developer in Engineering Test – Storage

Join the momentum behind our award-winning platform at Mimecast! Embark on a journey with our Storage Platform team. As a vital part of Quality Engineering, you'll play a key role in elevating the quality of our archiving and security software. Together, we’re creating innovative solutions that allows us to build distributed data storage systems to ensure our customers’ data is secure and compliant at a massive scale. Dive in and be part of the future!

Why This Role Is Exciting

“If you have a passion for creatively addressing complex challenges and wish to implement innovative solutions to develop and scale reliable, high-performing software in both private and public cloud environments, then the Storage Platform  team is the perfect fit for you. Imagine working on cutting-edge cloud-native microservices, leveraging AWS technologies, and redesigning legacy systems to meet the demands of a hybrid cloud environment. Your work will directly impact our customers by safeguarding their data and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do

As a Senior SDET within the Storage Platform team, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our software quality is excellent and our code and deployments are consistently maintaining high quality and continually validated. Your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Build out test strategies and plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed.
• Refine acceptance criteria into testable units and convert those into automated tests that execute efficiently and reliably.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and ensure successful automation as part of our standard build process.
• Occasional manual testing when automation is not an option.
• Report, reproduce, and help development resolve defects, emphasis on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and prevention of similar issues in the future.
• Freely debate ideas and rally behind decisions.
• Pushing for continual improvement in everything we do.
• Apply technology trends and industry innovations to our products and take initiatives.
• Utilizing and embracing AI tools to assist in Quality Engineering activities.

What You’ll Bring

• Domain experience in Quality Engineering, especially automated testing for Backend systems involving persistent data.
• Experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units.
• Solid object-oriented programming skills and string experience automating in Java.
• Experience in building and scaling tests using frameworks like Junit/TestNg or similar frameworks.
• Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS and utilising its SDK to interact with Cloud Services for testing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins and working with pipelines.
• Experience/knowledge in leveraging AI tools in building agents, using for reviews and generating skeleton code.
• Some experience/familiarity with performance/scalability testing.
• Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen.

Why Join Mimecast?

At Mimecast, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven team passionate about cybersecurity and data protection. We offer a culture that nurtures growth, innovation, and collaboration, supported by comprehensive benefits and a flexible hybrid work model. Here, your creativity and expertise will help shape the future of data storage and compliance at scale, making a real impact on customers worldwide.

Join us and be a key player in revolutionizing how massive volumes of sensitive data are managed, protected, and retained in the cloud era. Your next big challenge awaits!

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