Java Engineer in Quality Team

Department: Office of the CTO

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Remote, Ireland

Description

WHAT WE NEED

Within Hazelcast our Quality Engineering team is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of software quality for our customers. As part of our team you will be among fellow skilled quality engineers whose focus is to ensure our Java-based real-time distributed storage and stream processing platform meets rigorous quality benchmarks.

We are looking for a Java Engineer who is interested in moving into an SDET position within our Product Quality team.

In this role, you’ll tackle complex challenges, contribute to our product quality vision and play a key part in delivering reliable, high-performance software that delights our customers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work closely with software developers to understand the system architecture, design, and implementation to create effective test strategies.
• Pay attention to code quality and software craftsmanship.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring that code is designed with test automation in mind.
• Participating proactively in daily standup meetings, story grooming sessions, team retrospectives, regularly reporting progress as well as suggesting and implementing improvements.
• Develop detailed test plans, test scripts and test completion reports based on functional and technical specifications.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated testing frameworks for functional and non-functional testing.
• Design and execute performance, load, and stress tests to ensure the application can scale and perform under heavy traffic or resource constraints.
• Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure frequent, automated validation of code changes.
• Monitor the health of test suites and ensure that automated tests run successfully whilst ensuring test environment and test cases are optimized to improve system performance.
• Investigate test failures and work closely with developers to diagnose and resolve defects and issues.

WHAT YOU HAVE

• 3+ years of backend, system-level Java development experience.

Desirable:

• A passion for quality as well as for both detecting and preventing defects.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail.
• Efficient at debugging code and resolving issues quickly.

Soft skills:

• Ability to work effectively in a remote team environment, a team player who fosters collaboration.
• Able to make critical decisions, able to balance quality and time ensuring products and features are released in a timely manner without compromising on critical testing.
• Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions and consider different perspectives.
• Able to plan and organise your own work.
• Deep understanding of testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and non-functional testing (Performance, load, stress, soak).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to clearly convey complex information and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

BENEFITS

• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays
• Group Company Pension Plan
• Private Medical Insurance
• Private Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)