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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

What You'll Be Doing

• Test Automation Development: Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks, tools, and libraries. Integrate, implement, and optimise automated testing strategies to enhance CI/CD pipelines.
• Performance and Security Testing: Develop and execute performance and load test strategies to ensure the system can handle high volumes of traffic. Implement security testing practices to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. Develop functional resilience strategies such as chaos engineering.
• Quality Assurance: Empower the product team to conduct thorough testing of software applications, including unit, integration, system, and acceptance tests. Support engineers to debug and resolve complex issues, including fixing bugs.
• Test Planning and Execution: Translating product requirements into high-level test strategies and architectural decisions. Ensuring non-functional requirements (NFRs), such as performance and security, are considered early in the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other SDETs, Software Engineers, QA Analysts, and DevOps Engineers to integrate automated testing and quality into the development process. Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on testability and quality of code.
• Mentoring
  Mentor Software Engineering team members in best practices for test automation and software quality.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in the testing process. Stay updated with industry trends and technologies in test automation.
• Communication and Documentation: Contributing to clear and comprehensive documentation for test plans, strategies, and architecture decisions. Communicating automation frameworks and infrastructure to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating strategies into actionable steps.

About You

• Advanced experience in test automation development using tools like Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cypress, etc.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Neoload or LoadRunner, or modern alternatives like K6, Gatling, Locust.
• Proficient in Java
• Experience with scripting languages for automation tasks.
• Non-functional testing (particularly performance & security)
• Strong understanding of software testing principles and methodologies.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Familiarity with BDD tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow.
• Familiarity with project management software such as JIRA
• Experience mentoring and supporting colleague development

Interview process

This will be a two stage interview process consisting of a competency based interview and technical assessment.

Working Schedule

We are based in Bristol, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office around once a quarter.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus * and annual pay review
• 25 days * holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday **
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider s and w ellness c oach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• T wo paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

About Us

Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's number one platform for private investors. Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence, and today, we are trusted with more than £120 billion by over 1.7 million clients.

We are based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 colleagues. We believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos. We're steered by our core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

For more information about careers at HL and to see all our vacancies, please visit our careers website .