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ASSA ABLOY DevTEST Staff Engineer in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Career Opportunities: DevTEST Staff Engineer (30520)
Requisition ID 30520 - Posted - HID Corporation Ltd - PACS - MATURE MARKET - GBR: England (Cardiff - Cae Gwyrdd) - Engineering & Science - Posting Country (1) - Yes - Mid-senior level - Travel Required: 0%-10%
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An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Staff Dev Test Engineer
Location: Cardiff UK
Job ID: 30520
As a Dev Test Staff Engineer in Cardiff, you will drive the team formation, implementation and maintenance of a robust CI/CD pipeline within HID PACS.
This is a wide-ranging role, bridging the functions of the DevOPS and QA Validation teams.
The qualified candidate will provide a fully supported and scalable test environment which supports CI/CD while removing manual smoke/sanity testing from FW/SW dev process.
Who are we?
HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.
We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo
Join our winning team, Physical Access Control Solutions Business Area (PACS)!
The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services and controllers for physical access control.
Team Objectives
Improve Quality : By integrating continuous testing, we aim to detect and resolve defects early in the development process, ensuring a higher quality standard.
Accelerate Time to Market : Streamlining the testing process will reduce bottlenecks, allowing us to deliver new products, features and updates faster.
Reduce Costs : Early detection of issues will lower the cost of fixing defects and minimize the need for extensive rework in later stages.
Enhance Customer Satisfaction : Delivering reliable and high-quality firmware and software will lead to higher customer satisfaction and retention.
As our Staff Dev Test Engineer, you’ll support HID’s success by:
Able to design and implement a wide range of testing techniques to support a scalable and automated CI/CD environment.
Monitor, triage and resolve CI/CD pipeline test failures.
Design, build and documentation of new CI/CD infrastructure for new features.
Able to identify and liaise with external test facilities to cover test gaps
Able to communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Able to project manage and use technical leadership to achieve a team result
Contributes to project and product planning discussions
Understands how the product under test operates as part of a wider system
Plans and scopes interoperability test requirements
Able to make decisions regarding the Test Environment
Coaches / mentors others at a technical level
Able to raise defects with the business and help prioritize them based on severity
Able to research, plan and train others within the team
Able to deliver technical reports
Actively contribute to customer escalations
Champions TDD methodology and leads stakeholders in its implementation
What we will love about your background:
Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understands the trade-offs in creating good work/output/product in their field.
They require little oversight beyond high-level direction and are capable of taking a complex scenario, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing sub-tasks with relative ease.
The Staff Engineer self-seeks evidence to support their ideas and builds cases for these ideas.
They have end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompasses more than their own development.
This engineer is known and seen as a technical leader by their peers and works effectively with non-technical members.
Usually works with limited supervision, conferring with the wider team and Supervision as required.
Has latitude for un-reviewed action or decision making.
Your Experience and Education include:
Engineering degree or equivalent or suitable experience.
Minimum of +7 years of related industry experience.
Prior experience with designing and carrying out device testing, embedded FW, software testing, or other related testing experience
Familiarity with software installation and configuration in Windows and Linux environments
Ability to install and configure computer system hardware components and establish connections to local area networks and back-end processing systems
Experience with SQL DB queries to validate software recording proper data and ensure participant data ingested properly prior to testing
Experience in scripting.
Experience with tracking software development using Jira or other similar programs
Experience of Agile and Lean Methodologies.
Ability to write complex coded test solutions
Familiar with SBCs (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) and control of sensors/relays/stepper motors.
Familiar with Jenkins, NUnit and scripting.
Experience of testing Java applications using JUnit, TestNg, Mockito, and dbUnit.
Experience of Artifactory and Nexus repositories along with Maven and Nuget artifacts management.
Able to specify, design and produce physical test systems – outsourcing where necessary.
Should have knowledge of various test/development methodologies such as DDT, BDD, TDD, Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing and Performance/Reliability Testing.
Should have experience of Systems and Systems Integration testing, including End-2-End testing
Why apply?
Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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