Platform Quality Engineer (SDET)

7 months ago

Remote, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain automated integration- and API-level tests for distributed services.
Test asynchronous and event-driven workflows, including messaging, retries, ordering, and failure scenarios.
Contribute production-quality code to shared automation frameworks and quality tooling.
Design and execute performance and scalability tests using realistic workloads, test data, concurrency, and message throughput.
Integrate functional and performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and support staging validation.
Analyze test results and diagnose systemic platform risks using logs, telemetry, and test data.
Partner with Product Owners, architecture, platform, and engineering teams to prepare integration and performance tests for platform changes.
Improve system testability, reliability, observability, test coverage, and failure analysis using quality practices and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Demonstrable experience with quality assurance for platform- or enterprise-scale SaaS applications and distributed systems.
Strong coding skills in one or more of C#, TypeScript, or Python.
Experience designing and maintaining automated integration and API tests for distributed, cloud-native systems.
Understanding of messaging, asynchronous processing, retries, ordering, and failure handling.
Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems with technologies such as Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or SNS/SQS.
Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools and approaches such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling.
Experience designing performance scenarios and representative test data for load, concurrency, and message-driven workloads.
Experience integrating functional and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines; Azure DevOps is preferred.
Experience diagnosing complex system failures using logs, telemetry, and test data.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Relevant cloud-platform, performance-testing, or quality-engineering certifications are beneficial but not required.

201-500 employees