Job Description
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - Covent Garden, London
Read on to fully understand what this job requires in terms of skills and experience If you are a good match, make an application.
Job Type:Permanent / Full Time
Salary:£65,000 - £90,000 per annum plus benefits – DOE
The Ambassador Theatre Group is an extraordinary success story in the live entertainment industry. Founded in 1992 in the UK, we’ve grown into the world’s number one live-theatre company today. We cover every discipline in the theatre industry, from operating venues to ticketing platforms and producing shows. We are passionate about great shows and our ambition is to help them find the largest possible audiences.
We are actively looking for recruit a full-time, experiencedSenior Software Development Engineer in Testto join ourProduct Engineeringteam. This role is based at our Head Office on Shaftesbury Avenue, London, however we have a flexible remote working policy. You will be required to be in the office at least once per quarter. You’ll report to an Engineering Manager and work closely with a close-knit team of engineers, designers, and product managers.
At ATG, digital product and technology are core to our ticketing business, we're building a state-of-the-art platform, using modern technologies to power the future of the theatre-going experience. In our stack you'll come across things likeTypeScript, React, Redux, Styled Components, GraphQL and Node.js.We run everything in the cloud – utilising services from providers likeAWSandCloudflareand deploying using Infrastructure as Code tools likeTerraformandServerless Framework. CI/CDpipelines help us to release to production via automated testing and workflows.
The ideal candidate will be someone with a track record of creating and maintaining automated tests, championing testing practices, and working closely with engineers and product managers. You may have experience and skills ineither frontend or backend testingor be an all-rounder across both. In addition, you will be passionate about delivering and maintaining quality user experiences for our customers - through comprehensive testing of end user requirements - and driving forward automated testing strategies and quality initiatives
Your skills, qualities, and experience.
Essential
- Proven experience in JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience in creating automated tests using tools and frameworks such as
Cypress/Playwright
- OR Experience with Jest or other automated backend JavaScript test libraries
- Ability to understand and explain growing business domains and customer journey
- Experience mentoring and building quality assurance teams
Desirable
- Familiarity with the Behaviour Driven Development methodology
- Experience testing in AWS, particularly in serverless and event driven services
- Experience with mocking libraries
- Experience with load testing tools, such as JMeter or K6
- Practical knowledge of non-functional testing (e.g. performance, accessibility, visual regression)
- Experience of configuring and running automated tests as part of CI/CD pipeline
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Appreciate and add to a collaborative team effort
Please download a copy of ourjob descriptionfor full details on the position - Early applications are appreciated.
Weare proud to be an equal opportunity employerand strive to provide a stage for everyone.Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture.
We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.
If you’d like to discuss accessibility prior to applying, please review ourjob descriptionwhere you can find our contact details to request a confidential discussion.