Senior Specialist - IT Quality Assurance

Senior Software Engineer in Test

Darwin is the world’s number one global benefits platform, used by companies all over the world. It helps organisations achieve their employee benefits, people, and wider business goals by increasing engagement, streamlining administration, controlling cost and reducing risk.

With more than 4 million lives on Darwin, it connects employees with their benefits in over 100 countries and more than 40 languages.

Darwin is Mercer Marsh Benefits flagship employee benefits product, combining world-class consulting and broking with innovative technology, driving transformation in the way that employee benefits are designed, communicated and administered.

Sitting in the Darwin Technology Division, our Software Engineers in Test learn their trade, evolving skill to an exceptional standard by working on our beautifully intricate core product DarwinTM

Without exception, every engineer works hard to develop creative software testing solutions and in doing so learn and build invaluable experience in core engineering skills, team working, communication, stake-holder management, prioritisation, planning & estimation in a fail-friendly agile and lean environment.

Our engineers do so much more than testing Darwin.

A global footprint, one-team approach means you may be pair-programming with someone in UK, Leading an Epic in Romania, code-reviewing work from Singapore or designing a solution with our newest location, India. Our agile mind-set and lean engineering principles have created a culture of experimentation, innovation built upon a delivery methodology designed to produce and showcase working software.

We attract and retain candidates that enjoy working on complex Software Engineering challenges, seeing their work used by many clients, and being part of our Product development over the longer term.

We strongly believe there is a great value in long term associations.

We offer a range of techniques to help our engineers grow and develop:

• Our Darwin Growth Framework helps individuals identify strengths and areas of development independent of the role they are performing.

• Our on-demand technical training platform is brilliant for individual learning needs

• Our culture of growth and learning is integrated into how we work. A code-review for example would be a positive opportunity to question, discuss and reflect on appropriate solutions

Our typical career development path ranges from Graduate Software Engineer in Test, Junior Software Engineer in Test, Software Engineer in Test, Senior Software Engineer in Test and Lead Software Engineer in Test. We have many examples of people joining at Grad level and progressing right through to Lead.  

Alternative paths include, Software Engineer, Delivery, Release, Product management and much, much more.

• Defining, designing, communicating, and executing Darwin’s quality vision across our global engineering teams and Darwin™ releases
• Ensuring you and others continuously improve by proposing and then implementing new test framework designs and engineering practices that make your team more effective
• Tracking the progress you are making towards the wider goals of your team, and transparently communicating it to your team and all the stakeholders
• Coaching and mentoring team members

• Solid commercial experience in large scale test automation
• Designing and developing testing tools, automation frameworks and quality processes that are maintainable, scalable, extensible and reliable
• Working with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and Octopus
• Leading teams and projects
• Working in multi-disciplined teams including Software Engineering, DevOps and SysEng

Understanding of:

• Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals
• Debugging and general problem-solving skills
• Agile development methodology along with full software development life cycle experience
• Proactive communication and cross-group collaboration
• Web performance, testability, accessibility and security

Demonstrable experience:

• C# .Net
• Angular 2.0 and above
• PowerShell
• SQL scripting
• Jenkins / Octopus
• Git/TFS
• Good knowledge of relational and non-relational databases (SQL, MongoDB)
• Written and verbal communication with stakeholders in English

Desired experience in:

• Selenium WebDriver
• Typescript / JavaScript / Jasmine
• Nodejs
• Playwright
• JIRA