Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

1 Year ago • All levels
Testing

Job Description

Mimecast is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join its Governance, Compliance, and Insights (GCI) and Threat Reporting and Response (TRR) engineering teams. The role involves elevating the quality of archiving and security software through innovative solutions. Responsibilities include contributing to Agile Scrum teams, building test strategies, creating automated tests, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, performing occasional manual testing, and troubleshooting defects. The ideal candidate will have experience in quality engineering, automated testing, test planning, full-stack testing, object-oriented programming (Java, JavaScript, TypeScript), testing frameworks (Junit/TestNg, Cypress/Playwright), public cloud (AWS), databases, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and some knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server. Experience with AI tools and performance/scalability testing is also beneficial.
Good To Have:
  • AWS SDK usage for testing
  • Database validation in automated tests
  • Microsoft Exchange/365/Azure AD knowledge
  • Windows Server knowledge
  • AI tool leveraging for QE
  • Performance/scalability testing familiarity
Must Have:
  • Domain experience in Quality Engineering
  • Automated testing experience
  • Test planning and breaking down requirements
  • Full-stack automated testing
  • Object-oriented programming (Java, JavaScript, TypeScript)
  • Experience with testing frameworks
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Perks:
  • Accelerated career journey
  • Cutting-edge technologies
  • Real customer impact
  • Dynamic environment
  • Formal and on-the-job learning
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Cross-functional team collaboration

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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 e-discovery and compliance customers, 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

  • 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 string experience automating in Java, JavaScript, typescript or similar.
  • Experience on building and scaling tests using frameworks like Junit/TestNg and/or Cypress/Playwright.
  • Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS and utilising its SDK to interact with Cloud Services for testing.
  • Familiarity working with databases and an ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins and working with pipelines.
  • Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server.
  • 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.

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!

We believe in “growth that’s good”, we have a “culture that cares”, and we are on a “mission that matters”.

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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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.

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