Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

ABOUT TIDE

At Tide we help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.6 million members globally across the UK India Germany and France. Using advanced technology all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding low fees and innovative features we thrive on making data-driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money.

Tide facts:

• Tide is available for UK Indian German and French SMEs
• Over 1.6 million members: 800000 UK and 800000 in India and growing rapidly
• Over $200 million raised in funding
• Over 2500 Tideans globally - were diversity champions!
• We have offices in Central London with a member support and technology centre in Sofia Bulgaria technology centres in Serbia Romania Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram and New Delhi India

ABOUT THE TEAM:

Youll be joining a passionate and agile test engineering function who sit within Tides central Platform Engineering department. We maintain a central suite of tests and the pipelines that run them in order to provide a paved road of tested functionality to Tides product engineers.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As Staff Software Development Engineer in Test at Tide you will:

• Develop and maintain automation frameworks using JavaScript - Cypress and Flutter using Patrol for both web and mobile applications.
• Own a central suite of end to end tests that covers shared functionality such as authentication and authorization.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery and rapid releases.
• Ensure all e2e tests are stable and helping engineers resolve intermittent failures
• Act as an ambassador for quality at Tide while ensuring we adopt an automation first approach
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure we design and build testable features
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for test automation and coverage across Tides product engineering teams with the aim of encouraging continual improvement outside your own team

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Tide is looking for an experienced SDET who can demonstrate extreme ownership of automated tests written in Cypress (Web / Angular) and Patrol (iOS & Android / Flutter). The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6 years of experience ensuring quality in modern web mobile and API based applications using test automation.

A such you will possess much of the following:

• Strong automated UI testing experience using Typescript or Javascript ideally using Cypress
• Experience with automated testing of mobile applications
• Experience with mobile app stores and a fully automated submissions process
• Familiarity with Gherkin
• Hands on experience of Github or another CI/CD tool
• Experience integrating testing into various stages of CI / CD pipelines

Additional desirable skills that make you a great fit:

• Any experience of Flutter to build multiplatform mobile applications
• Any experience of Patrol to automate Flutter testing
• Any experience with AWS or GCP in the context of test automation
• Experience testing containerised applications and backend APIs

OUR TECH STACK:

Tides mobile applications are now all built using Flutter & Dart so we can use the same application code that compiles to separate native apps for both iOS & Android devices. We write our integration/e2e tests using the Patrol framework.

We use Angular for Web UIs that can provide our members with richer experiences when running on larger screens. We use Typescript & Cypress for testing Web applications.

Most of our APIs are written in Java or Python but with Go used in places. Our platform is 100% containerised and runs mostly in AWS.

WHAT YOU WILL GET IN RETURN:

• Competitive salary
• Self & Family Health Insurance
• Term & Life Insurance
• OPD Benefits
• Mental wellbeing through Plumm
• Learning & Development Budget
• WFH Setup allowance
• 25 Annual leaves
• Family & Friendly Leaves

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING:

At Tide we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.

While remote work is supported we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.

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TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

At Tide we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin veteran neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members diverse needs and lives.

We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment where everyones voice is heard.

At Tide we thrive on diversity embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success helping us build products that meet our members diverse needs. We are One Team committed to transparency and ensuring everyones voice is heard.

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