Rapid7 Senior Software Engineer Test - VM 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

488610957

About the Role

As a Senior Engineer in Test within our expanding Quality Engineering (QE) team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our product quality and promoting a shift-left testing approach. Your responsibilities will focus on deliverables while supporting and mentoring junior team members. You'll ensure software application quality and reliability by devising testing strategies, implementing automated frameworks and providing strong leadership.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with various stakeholders, such as engineering and support teams, to clarify requirements for QE deliverables.

• Assist the team in overcoming technical hurdles and unblock daily operations.

• Gain a thorough understanding of each product under test, including its use cases, execution/data flow, and configuration, to provide efficient quality improvement strategies.

• Contribute to team discussions and assist in planning deliverables.

• Advocate for quality within development teams, ensuring best practices and standards are followed.

• Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies to enhance product quality.

• Additionally, perform typical QE tasks such as:

  • Maintaining, executing, and creating automated tests.

  • Managing test environments.

  • Creating and maintaining test plans.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, helping them with their tasks and professional growth.

The skills you’ll bring include, not limited to:

• A minimum of 5+ years experience in Software development role with 3+ years of experience in Testing and QE.

  • Collaborate with engineering teams to come up with clear requirements and prove the solution through POCs if needed

  • Knowledge in wide technology stacks and languages for Cloud and On-Premises products

  • Experience in developing and testing systems that scale for performance and load.

  • Self-directed, motivated, collaborative, high-energy, with a diligent work ethic.

  • Experience with automation frameworks e.g. RobotFramework, Cucumber, NUnit, Playwright or Selenium

  • Knowledge of dependency mocking frameworks e.g. WireMock

  • Experience in DevOps engineering

  • Working knowledge of JIRA or equivalent defect tracking tools

  • Knowledge of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, OpenStack and VMware is a plus

  • Knowledge of RDBMS and SQL language(s)