Test Engineer

📍 Location: Cambridge, UK 

Hybrid - you must be prepared to come into our Cambridge office a minimum of once a week, and when requested.

 

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About Blackdot 

Blackdot Solutions makes investigations software. Our product, Videris, is a leading solution that transforms the way organisations collect, analyse and visualise internet-sourced data. Governments, banks and large organisations use Videris to tackle some of the most complex investigative challenges our society faces.

We’re looking for creative self-starters who love working with highly sophisticated and demanding customers to join our fast-paced, dynamic team. You'll be working in a team of friendly, driven product and engineering professionals with a wide range of experience and interests.

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About the role

As a Test Engineer, you will play a key role in our engineering teams, ensuring the quality of the product matches the product vision and brings the features to life. You’ll be responsible for contributing to the ongoing testing efforts to further improve the user experience of our SaaS platform, Videris, collaborating across teams in an agile operation.

The ideal candidate will be a critical thinker with a passion for quality and an appreciation for technical excellence. With an eye for detail, an aptitude for test design, and techniques you will build the testing approach and automated and exploratory testing practices and coach others to embed quality into the solution. You will bring a desire for problem solving and root cause analysis, to uncover the cause of issues and aid the resolution, helping bring the user perspective to meetings through asking questions and unearthing assumptions and risk, enabling a design for testability and quality approach to our development.

Due to the nature of our work you will need to be a quick thinker, who can communicate with clarity and advocate for the quality of the solution.

Responsibilities 

Reporting to our Head of Engineering, as a Test Engineer you will be responsible for:

Development

  • Identify risk, tests and user considerations for upcoming work
  • Identify test cases to be covered prior to development, with an aim for the majority to be automated
  • Encourage development to provide entry points for testing into designs and implementation
  • Coach others to embed quality into processes and practices
  • Provide early feedback through automated and exploratory testing
  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for testing (c#, playwright, yaml)
  • Debug issues and provide accurate defects with key details
  • Participate in code reviews, pairing, and further improve capabilities and test practices and work closely with others in Engineering
  • Contribute to test coverage, CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless delivery and deployment.
  • Collaborate with product to understand the user experience and ensure the solution meets those expectations.
  • Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing.

Architecture

  • Choose appropriate technologies and design patterns
  • Consider scalability, reliability and security that align with business objectives and can be managed and monitored within an operational environment.
  • Keep abreast of emerging technologies and methodologies to improve our development processes and product capabilities.

Company and team collaboration

  • Have an understanding of the commercial context of the work being undertaken.
  • Work with colleagues across teams, ensuring alignment on goals and expectations.
  • Bring your insights and experience to the company and shape it.

About you

You will be passionate about what you do, and keen to experience new ideas and to develop further, with a drive for innovation and performance.:

  • A minimum 3 years’ experience in a test engineer or related role.
  • Broad experience of modern software delivery including cloud (e.g. AWS).
  • Familiarity with common tools; Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Terraform, Kubernetes, Playwright
  • B2B software company experience.

 

Benefits

You’ll enjoy:

  • Competitive salary with regular pay reviews
  • 25 days holiday per year
  • The chance to work with some of the best people in the business
  • Strong work-life balance & flexible working
  • Ability to participate in share option scheme after 12 months
  • Professional development days & role-specific training
  • Vitality health insurance
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Electric vehicle (EV) scheme
  • Enhanced pension contributions
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Regular and varied company socials

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

Blackdot Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all people, regardless of their race, sex, disability, age, religion, or sexual orientation. We conduct regular pay reviews to prevent pay discrimination and ensure equitable pay based on role and experience. We are committed to providing a safe, rewarding workplace for all employees and are happy to provide reasonable adjustments where needed. If you have any questions about Blackdot’s DEI policy, please get in touch with gill.buchanan@blackdotsolutions.com . 

How to apply

Please submit a CV and cover letter to apply.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact careers@blackdotsolutions.com.

 

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