Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Help Build the Next Generation of Cloud-Scalable AI-Based Security Products

Have a passion for software security? Excel at implementing public cloud at scale? Desire to apply Machine Learning to solve complex problems? This may well be the role for you. Our Communication and Collaboration Security products are cutting edge solutions that empower Mimecast customers to Work Protected™ at tremendous scale.

Why Join Our Team?

“Join us for the opportunity, stay and thrive because of the culture and community. Mimecasters take pride in building high performing teams that embody the Mimecast Way, a code of values that guide how we operate and enable our collective success. In my 30 years of high tech, this is the most positive and constructive culture I’ve ever experienced.” – Larry V, Senior Director of Quality Engineering

What You’ll Do

As a Senior SDET within the Communication and Collaboration Security team, you’ll play an integral part of ensuring our code, tools, and deployments are consistent and high quality and continually optimized. 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 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
• Pushing for continual improvement in everything we do

What You’ll Bring

• Domain experience in Quality Engineering, especially automated testing
• Experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units
• Full-stack experience in automated testing, validating both front-end and back-end interfaces, including RESTful API endpoints and web-based user interfaces
• Solid object-oriented programming skills and experience automating in Java, Javascript, or similar
• Familiarity working with databases and an ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins
• Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server
• Some experience/familiarity with performance/scalability testing
• Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS
• Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen

What We Bring

Join our Communication and Collaboration Security team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast is on a path of steady and healthy growth as a company, investing in people like you who bring the skills and expertise to raise our technical expertise, operational maturity, and customer success to the next level. Your contributions are important! Every voice and action matters.

Mimecast offers formal and on-the-job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly – opportunities to work with cross-functional teams to build your knowledge!

Our Hybrid Model:

We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance, and learning
• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm
• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

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DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.