QA Engineer II

Software Development Engineer in Test  

The driving force behind our award-winning platform at Mimecast

Dive into the forefront of innovation with our Data Retention & Managed Services engineering teams, taking on the crucial Quality Engineering role to help us develop and excel in quality aspects of our archiving and security software and its associated platforms. Our team works with cutting edge solutions that empower Mimecast customers to Work Protected™ at large scale.

Why Join Our Team?

“If you are interested in solving and tackling complex problems with ingenuity and implement new ideas to build and scale reliable, high performing software in private and public cloud environments, then data retention and managed services team is for you, where we deal with Data ingestion, backup and search for our e-discovery and compliance customers and our best-in-class user reporting and Threat repotting platforms” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do

As an SDET within the Data Retention and Managed Services team, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our software quality is excellent an also our code and deployments are constituently maintaining high quality, and continually validated.  Your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Build out test 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.

What You’ll Bring

• Domain experience in Quality Engineering, especially automated testing.
• Experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units.
• Full-stack experience in automated testing, validating both front-end and back-end interfaces, including RESTful API endpoints and web-based user interfaces.
• Solid object-oriented programming skills and string experience automating in Java, Javascript, typescript or similar.
• Experience on building and scaling tests using frameworks like Junit/TestNg and/or Cypress/Playwright.
• Experience/familiarity working with public cloud, especially AWS and utilising its SDK to interact with Cloud Services for testing.
• Familiarity working with databases and an ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially using Jenkins and working with pipelines.
• Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server.
• Some experience/familiarity with performance/scalability testing.
• Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen.

What We Bring

Join our Data retention and managed services team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast is on a path of steady and healthy growth as a company, investing in people like you who bring the skills and expertise to raise our technical expertise, operational maturity, and customer success to the next level.  Your contributions are important!  Every voice and action matters.

Mimecast offers formal and on-the-job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly – opportunities to work with cross-functional teams to build your knowledge!

We believe in “growth that’s good”, we have a “culture that cares”, and we are on a “mission that matters”.

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance, and learning.
• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm.

• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.