Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test – Full Stack

We are looking for a full-stack Software Development Engineer in Test to join us in validating our security products and associated platforms. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with an automate-first mindset, ready to validate complex test environments with many touch points. A positive attitude and willingness to learn and share are essential.

Mimecast provides cyber security that helps thousands of organizations worldwide make email and messaging safer, restore trust, and bolster cyber resilience. We help organizations stand strong in the face of cyberattacks, human error, and technical failure.

What You’ll Do

• Contributing to the planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team
• Building out test plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed
• Refining acceptance criteria into testable units and converting those into automated tests that execute efficiently and reliably
• Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and ensuring successful automation as part of our standard build process
• Occasional manual testing when automation is not an option
• Reporting, reproducing, and helping development resolve defects – emphasis on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and prevention of similar issues in the future
• Monitoring our results and driving continuous improvement through process changes
• Mentoring and coaching junior engineers
• Contributing to design/code reviews for product and test code
• Advocating test automation and coaching the team on best practices
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Engineering / Computer science degree or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units
• 3+ years of significant test automation work, validating both back-end and front-end interfaces in at least one high-level object-oriented language, including:

Extensive experience automating business logic in the services layer (RESTful API, SDK, or CLI, as appropriate)

• Proficiency in validating contract, functionality, correctness, and performance of REST API endpoints
• Familiarity with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jasmine, or equivalent
• Clear understanding of how to manage risk through negative testing, boundary/limits testing, load/soak testing, and other test aspects as appropriate, including system integration, performance/scale, security, and L10N/I18N
• Solid programming skills and experience automating in Java or similar

Experience in validation of UI-functionality and rendering, End-to-End testing, and UAT scenarios

• Experience with Cypress or knowledge of Protractor/Selenium
• Knowledge of Web Browsers, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, JSON, XML, integration with APIs, web servers
• Great knowledge of testing design patterns - for example, the Page Object Model
• Experience delivering testing in Agile projects with continuous testing model
• 2+ years of experience as a technical leader of test projects and test teams
• Database familiarity (types, schemas, SQL queries, basic operations) and ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests
• Experience with multithreading, concurrency, SaaS, and multi-tenant architectures
• Proven ability to integrate with and automate using third party APIs (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc)
• Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Office365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server
  
  

Additional Desired Experience

• Working knowledge of public cloud, especially AWS
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline, working knowledge of Jenkins and pipelines
• Experience testing fault resilient services
• Experience in working with highly scalable and distributed systems
• Experience with Agile Scrum
• Basic understanding of authorization protocols such as OAuth
• Experience in deep diving into logs, code and other elements to understand and solve problems
  
  

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.