[Hiring] Software Development Engineer In Test @Protect Line

Role Description

Are you an SDET who thrives on ensuring quality, solving complex problems, and building automated solutions that make teams faster, better, and more reliable? Do you enjoy the balance of hands-on functional testing paired with technical engineering work? If so, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

As an SDET, you will be:

• Conducting hands-on functional testing to ensure new features meet requirements and deliver the right outcomes.
• Clearly documenting results, raising issues with clarity and precision, and helping maintain high quality standards.
• Working closely with developers to identify gaps, edge cases, and opportunities to strengthen quality.
• Championing strong QA practices and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Designing and implementing automation capability from the ground up, including:
  • A scalable automation framework
  • A core regression suite
  • Supporting disciplines such as performance, integration, and load testing
• Playing a central role in building structured acceptance criteria and ensuring requirements are well-defined.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of test frameworks, ideally following a Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) approach.
• Solid understanding of PHP development and experience integrating automation frameworks such as Playwright or Behat.
• Ability to analyse requirements and collaborate with the team to create clear, actionable acceptance criteria.

Requirements

• Strong awareness of UX principles and accessibility (advantageous but not essential).
• Experience integrating third-party platforms such as BrowserStack (advantageous but not essential).
• Experience working with the Symfony PHP framework (advantageous but not essential).
• Familiarity with GIT version control and associated best practices (advantageous but not essential).
• Background working in a fast-paced Agile environment (advantageous but not essential).

Benefits

• Enhanced Family Leave: Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and surrogacy packages offer substantial support during those important life changes.
• Flexible Time Off: Holiday entitlement raising on length of service as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave or convert unused days into extra pay! Plus, take paid leave for appointments, emergencies, or any of life’s surprises.
• Celebrate Life: Enjoy extra paid days off for birthdays, weddings, new home purchases, and your child’s first birthday.
• Professional Benefits Scheme: Tailored rewards for technical and professional support staff, including training allowances, desk support packages, wellbeing support and car allowances.
• Temporary Remote Working: Experience exciting opportunities to work from different locations, including abroad.
• Paid Charity Work: Make a difference with our 'Day to Make a Difference' initiative, giving you one paid day off a year to engage in meaningful charity work.
• Epic Company Events: Our Summer and Christmas parties are legendary—get ready to join the fun!
• Sabbatical Opportunities: After 15 years of service, enjoy 4 weeks of paid leave to explore, learn, or recharge.
• Refer & Earn: Bring a friend onboard and pocket £1,500 for each successful hire!
• Perks Galore: From eye care vouchers to retailer discounts, enjoy a variety of benefits.
• Secure Your Future: Benefit from our pension scheme, death in service benefits, and more.