Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

About Tide
At Tide, we are building a business management platform designed to save small businesses time and money. We provide our members with business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Launched in 2017, Tide is now used by over
1 million small businesses
across the world and is available to UK, Indian and German SMEs. Headquartered in central London, with offices in Sofia, Hyderabad, Delhi, Berlin and Belgrade, Tide employs over 2,000 employees.

Tide is rapidly growing, expanding into new products and markets and always looking for passionate and driven people. Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.

About The Team
You'll be joining a passionate and agile test engineering function who sit within Tide's 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 Tide's 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 Tide's 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 API's

Our Tech Stack
Tide's 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 UI's 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'll Get In Return

• Remote first
• 25 days paid annual leave
• Share options

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.

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 everyone's 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 everyone's voice is heard.
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