Employment type: Full-time, Permanent  

Work hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5.30pm 

Location: UK wide, preference for Bristol, Norfolk or North Devon

What will I be doing? 

As our Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you’ll report to the Head of Quality Assurance, playing a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and reliable test automation frameworks across multiple platforms. You’ll proactively identify automation opportunities to help improve efficiency, ensuring the highest quality standards for our platforms and systems. 

As part of your everyday role, you’re likely to be involved in the following: 

• Designing, implementing and maintaining automation frameworks for current applications. 

• Designing and implementing CI/CD processes for automation purposes. 

• Writing, maintaining and executing performance tests on internal systems. 

• Providing guidance and mentorship to other Software Developers.

• Driving initiatives to enhance automation capabilities within the QA team. 

• Collaborating with stakeholders to identify key automation opportunities. 

• Working closely with product engineering teams to improve test environments and data. 

• Supporting developers in adopting automation best practices. 

What are we looking for? 

We know that the perfect candidate who ticks every box doesn’t exist, so if you’re excited by the role and can do most of the below, please get in touch – you could be exactly what we need! 

Ideally, we’re looking for: 

• Demonstrated experience as an automation engineer. 

• Proficiency in JavaScript.

• Expertise in designing, planning, and implementing automated testing frameworks for collaborative teams. 

• Hands-on experience with various UI and API automation frameworks including Cypress. 

• Familiarity with Cucumber and Gherkin. 

• Knowledgeable with CI/CD processes, version control, and pipeline tools, preferably GitLab. 

• Knowledge of performance testing tools, ideally K6/Grafana. 

• Experience with test management platforms and reporting, preferably Xray. 

• Skilled in analysing logs, metrics, and traces, with experience in data monitoring tools like DataDog a plus. 

• Familiarity with project management and defect tracking tools, preferably JIRA. 

• Experience of Appium (a bonus). 

What’s in it for you? 

We believe in taking care of our team. As well as joining a rapidly growing company with a good culture and opportunities for employee development, we provide competitive salaries and a range of benefits, including: 

• 25 days' paid holidays plus bank holidays 

• A special day off for your or a loved one's birthday 

• £500 paid towards a holiday of your choice 

• A paid day to volunteer with a charity close to your heart 

• A friends and family discount scheme 

• Life assurance for your peace of mind 

• Social clubs for pet lovers, fitness enthusiasts, gardeners, sustainability champions, nutrition enthusiasts and more 

• Exciting social events, including our famous Christmas parties! 

Who are we? 

We’re Travel Chapter – the holiday home people – and we’re on a mission to showcase great places to stay in the UK. While we’ve grown over the years from a small South West holiday letting agency to one of the market leaders in the industry, we’ve never lost sight of our strong family ethos and we keep the same values at the heart of everything we do. Along the way, we’ve nurtured a caring and collaborative culture that drives us forward and keeps our team inspired and motivated every day. 

The people behind our company are at the heart of everything we do and it’s a place where everyone is welcome; a place that’s friendly and fair; a place that encourages people to be bold, explore new ideas and push the boundaries of what they do every single day. We are passionate about what we do and we take a common-sense approach to getting things done. Inevitably, things go wrong from time to time and we do everything we can to make it right. We learn from it and adapt, remembering to stay curious and never stop evolving. 

Diversity is key to our success, and we work hard to make sure we’re inclusive. Please let us know if you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process so you can do your best – we’ll be happy to help. 

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