The client is a pioneering UK software house who, in 2000, introduced one of the first SaaS product in Europe, a successful real-time insurance pricing hub, used by all major insurance companies and with hundreds of thousands transactions a day.

Following our decade of success, we are now kick-starting an ambitious roadmap of product innovation; an ideal combination of the start-up excitement with the financial security of a successful vendor.

As a result, the company is now building a software development center of excellence with a proactive approach in skills investment and the career development of its team members.

Progressive, inclusive, innovative, and a market leader we seek loyalty and commitment and offer in return growth possibilities, exciting work and the once-in–a-lifetime opportunity to be part of an industry changing project that will make headlines.

With regular visits from/to both UK and Kiev, our Ukrainian team will be an equal and lively part of our growing and vibrant development organization not just an outsourcing outlet. Joining us will challenge you and raise your professional profile well above the market average and be the best amongst your peers.

Role

• Be part of the Scrum team to plan and implement automated testing for the acceptance criteria of user stories
• Coordinate the Scrum master, other QA (manual or automated) to validate software builds
• Ensure that high automation tests are being developed complying to our best practices and standards and using the appropriate tools
• Be part of the on-going discussion on best practices and strategy in automated QA
• Advise on innovation opportunities and improvements in the teams function
• Help integrate automation tests in the teams SDLC
• Provide visibility with quality dashboards, reflecting the results of automation tests and performance tests in particular.

Required

• Experience of using BDD and TDD in an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Track record of writing automation frameworks and suits for large scale systems automating both UI and server-side services, ideally using Selenium.
• Experience with working with SQL, XML, HTTP and HTTP tracing and general system troubleshooting.
• Load and performance testing
• Integration of automation tests with build  & release management
• Awareness of security and penetration testing

Desired

• Use of Profiling and instrumentation tools
• Estimation and analysis of code coverage
• Cloud automation either in AWS or Azure.
• Automating Open Web Application Security Project  (OWASP) guidelines (top 10, OWASP AntiSamy .NET Project)
• Basic .NET skills

  Personality

• Proactive, values quality, and goes out of their way to break software
• Thirst for knowledge, continuous improvement, and desire to be part of our Centre of Excellence and the best in the industry
• A team player that can work on her/his own, speaking his/her mind but respecting his/her colleagues.
• Good English minimum written but ideally both oral and written
• Disciplined, analytical & diligent with an eye to detail

Ciklum offers you:

• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;
• A lot of various technical seminars;
• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;
• Competitive salary;
• Career and professional growth;
• Possibility to work in a big and successful company;
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.

Join Ciklum and «Cross the Borders» together with us!