Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Mimecast
£76-114k
2+ days a week in office
Cloud cybersecurity services
Be an early applicant
Cloud cybersecurity services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£76-114k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To stop bad things from happening to good organisations.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a passion for creatively addressing complex challenges and wish to implement innovative solutions to develop and scale reliable, high-performing software in both private and public cloud environments, then the GCI and TRR teams are the perfect fit for you
- Extensive domain expertise in Quality Engineering, with a strong emphasis on designing, implementing, and optimizing automated testing frameworks and strategies
- Experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units
- Full-stack experience in automated testing, validating mostly back-end interfaces and services, including RESTful APIs as mandatory and having front-end web-based user interfaces is nice to have
- Solid object-oriented programming skills and strong experience automating in Java is mandatory and having JavaScript, typescript or similar is a nice to have
- Experience on building and scaling tests using frameworks like Junit/TestNg or similar is mandatory and having Cypress/Playwright would be nice to have
- Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS and utilising its SDK to interact with Cloud Services for testing
- Familiarity and ability to create/update IaC (infrastructure as code) using terraform for automated testing needs
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins and working with pipelines
- Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory
- Experience/knowledge in leveraging AI tools in building agents, using for reviews and generating skeleton code
- Experience with performance/scalability testing of backend systems and APIs
- Experience testing applications that interact with PostgreSQL or similar databases, including writing queries for validation and verifying data integrity
- Experience testing applications running in Kubernetes environments
- Familiarity with using monitoring and observability tools like Grafana to support test analysis and validation
- Experience troubleshooting and supporting customers with product features, including investigating issues and providing technical guidance
- Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen
What the job involves
- As a vital part of Quality Engineering, you'll play a key role in elevating the quality of our archiving and security software. Together, we’re harnessing cutting-edge solutions that empower our customers to master Human Risk Management™ on an unprecedented scale. Dive in and be part of the future!
- Here, we focus on Data ingestion, backup, and unified search & Export for our archiving, e-discovery and compliance customers for different data types, as well as delivering Best-in-class user reporting and threat reporting platforms
- As a Senior SDET within the GCI and TRR teams, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our software quality is excellent and our code and deployments are constituently maintaining high quality and continually validated
- Contribute to planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team
- Build out test strategies and plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed
- Refine acceptance criteria into testable units and convert those into automated tests that execute efficiently and reliably
- Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and ensure successful automation as part of our standard build process
- Occasional manual testing when automation is not an option
- Report, reproduce, and help development resolve defects, emphasis on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and prevention of similar issues in the future
- Freely debate ideas and rally behind decisions
- Pushing for continual improvement in everything we do
- Apply technology trends and industry innovations to our products and take initiatives
- Utilizing and embracing AI tools to assist in Quality Engineering activities
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mimecast’s next-gen cloud-based security, archiving, and continuity services provide comprehensive risk management in a fully integrated solution, protecting over 40,000 customers worldwide and blocking 162+ million threats. With its adaptable platform, Mimecast focuses on developing capabilities to meet increasing risks and forming strategic partnerships.
Following its acquisition by Permira, Mimecast has expanded globally, reaching more countries throughout 2023. Recently, Mimecast acquired Elevate Security, enhancing its offerings with insights into human behaviours and risks. Elevate Security's platform flags high-risk individuals with a precision risk scoring algorithm, complementing Mimecast’s Awareness Training for targeted intervention and training.
Since 2003, Mimecast has empowered customers to mitigate risks and manage complexities in a threat landscape driven by cyberattacks and human error. Mimecast’s advanced solutions in threat detection, brand protection, and data retention enable organisations to work protected.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2012
$62m
SERIES C
Jan 2010
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.7m
Company benefits
- Your finances and your future: - Pension - Communication Allowance - Employee Referral
- Your health: - Mediclaim - Insurance Coverage - Meal Coupons - Virtual Therapy Services
- Your life and your family: - Casual Leave - Flexible working - Family Leave - Long Service Leave - Employee Assistance Program
- Your community: - Volunteer Days - Gift Matching
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Peter Bauer
(Member of the Board of Directors and Co-founder)Former Managing Director of FAB Technology (Co-Founder) and Idion Solutions Cape Town. Was the CEO of Mimecast between 2003 and 2024.
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