Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Unleash Innovation with Mimecast!

Join the momentum behind our award-winning platform at Mimecast! Embark on a journey with our Governance, Compliance, and Insights (GCI) and Threat Reporting and Response (TRR) engineering teams. 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 harnessing cutting-edge solutions that empower our customers to master Human Risk Management™ on an unprecedented scale. Dive in and be part of the future!

Why Join Our Team?

“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 GCI and TRR teams are the perfect fit for you. Here, we focus on Data ingestion, backup, and unified search & Export for our archiving, e-discovery and compliance customers for different data types, as well as delivering Best-in-class user reporting and threat reporting platforms” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do

As a Senior SDET within the GCI and TRR teams, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our software quality is excellent and our code and deployments are constituently 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

• Extensive domain expertise in Quality Engineering, with a strong emphasis on designing, implementing, and optimizing automated testing frameworks and strategies.
• Experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units.
• Full-stack experience in automated testing, validating mostly back-end interfaces and services, including RESTful APIs as mandatory and having front-end web-based user interfaces is nice to have.
• Solid object-oriented programming skills and strong experience automating in Java is mandatory and having JavaScript, typescript or similar is a nice to have.
• Experience on building and scaling tests using frameworks like Junit/TestNg or similar is mandatory and having Cypress/Playwright would be nice to have.
• Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS and utilising its SDK to interact with Cloud Services for testing.
• Familiarity and ability to create/update IaC (infrastructure as code) using terraform for automated testing needs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins and working with pipelines.
• Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory.
• Experience/knowledge in leveraging AI tools in building agents, using for reviews and generating skeleton code.
• Experience with performance/scalability testing of backend systems and APIs.
• Experience testing applications that interact with PostgreSQL or similar databases, including writing queries for validation and verifying data integrity.
• Experience testing applications running in Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with using monitoring and observability tools like Grafana to support test analysis and validation.
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting customers with product features, including investigating issues and providing technical guidance.
• Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen.

What We Bring

Join our GCI and TRR teams 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!

The base salary range for this position is £76K - £114K base + benefits. This reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position. This position may also be eligible for incentive plans and other related benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. These factors and individual capabilities will also determine the individual pay offered.

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.