Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Job Title: Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Location: Derry/Londonderry or Cambridge, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full Time

The job

Were looking for a motivated Junior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our 3DVis Cloud team at AVEVA.

Youll support the delivery of best-in-class 3D visualisation and XR (Extended Reality) cloud streaming technologies, supporting AVEVAs industrial software portfolio. Your work will help ensure our cloud and on-premises solutions meet high standards of quality, robustness, and security.

This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career who is excited by test automation, quality engineering, and cloud technologies, and who wants to grow their skills with support from experienced engineers within a collaborative, scaled agile (SAFe) environment.

Key responsibilities

We follow a scaled agile software development methodology. You should feel comfortable building collaborative relationships in a multi-disciplinary scrum team and delivering defined work with support from experienced engineers, regular code review and a layered testing approach.

Your responsibilities will include, with regular support, reviews and guidance:

• Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers and SDET engineers to help define, implement, and execute functional and non-functional test coverage for our product
• Assist in enhancing our test automation by extending and creating automated tests using C#
• Support automated test execution by investigating failures and helping to maintain automated test runs within a continuous integration environment
• Use Azure DevOps (Test Plans and Pipelines) to support regression testing cycles
• Participate in improving our testing practices by identifying gaps in test coverage and proposing new test cases or automation improvements for review by senior engineers.
• Assist in maintaining our production systems by helping investigate production issues and contributing preventative improvements, such as strengthening test coverage and automation.

Essential requirements

Education & Experience:

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Up to 2 years of experience in a technical role (internships count!)

Technical Skills (You dont need all of thesejust a willingness to learn):

• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Foundational experience in/or understanding of functional testing; exposure to non-functional testing is a plus.
• Foundational experience or understanding of C# and willingness to learn test automation practices
• Team-oriented and collaborative, with clear communication and strong organisational skills, able to collaborate effectively, take initiative and progress issues with support from others.
• Methodical, proactive can-do attitude with a strong learning mindset and desire to grow technical depth

Desired skills and competencies

• Understanding of/exposure to CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to NUnit or similar test frameworks
• Awareness of Azure or other cloud services

R&D at AVEVA

Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.

Our track record of innovation is no fluke its the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning, collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems, join us.

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