Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for a 6 month contract based in London (2 days per week) with remote working available (hybrid).

Purpose of the role:
Join us as a SDET to help define and implement the testing strategy across our products.

What you'll do:

• Work in customer focused agile squads and collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define the next iteration of products.
• Work collaboratively across our missions to define and continually improve our testing strategy for new and existing products.
• Develop clean, elegant, and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend.
• Build scalable automated testing systems that enable us to ship value to customers at pace.
• Support other engineers to test their software and act as a subject matter expert.
• Work with stakeholders across the business to shape the future of quality engineering at and put long term interests of our customers at the heart of key decisions.
• Drive the direction of our testing chapter to ensure it maintains the highest standards of technology and process.

The skills you'll need:

• Programming skills in Java.
• Hands-on experience with common Back End and Front End test automation frameworks, and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline.
• Knowledge of software performance and automated security testing techniques and tooling.
• Awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration.
• A strong understanding of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience delivering and testing distributed microservices as part of an agile team.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business