R3 is hiring a

Web3 SDET Lead

At R3 our vision is a world where value moves freely, and business is done safely. Our mission is to enable an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy. We are a scale up with a startup’s grit. We encourage a workforce where no idea is too small, and no two days are the same.

R3's Professional Services team works to bring Corda specialist expertise to our customers to make their adoption successful. We engage directly with our customers to design, build, deploy and advise them on their Corda journey to ensure long-term capabilities are sustained. Through business consulting, technical solutions and implementation, we help customers achieve their goals most effectively for their business, owning projects ranging from small design POCs to full-end to end implementations for Digital Currencies and Digital Assets real-world problems.

Our customer-centric and innovative approach to providing services and solutions in the industry allows us to strategically assess our customer's needs and ensure they are set up for success from the beginning of their journey. In addition to working directly with our customers, we strive to collaborate internally with our Sales, Engineering and Product organizations to provide better tooling, services and products based on our customer's evolving needs.

Your mission as a Professional Services SDET Lead is to use your QA experience to lead the Quality Assurance strategy and plan on large scale complex projects. Professional Services is responsible for delivering projects on behalf of our clients which includes the full SDLC (software development lifecycle). This role is to focus on the automation and test aspect of customer projects. In addition this role may include the line management of approximately 5 FTE’s.

Your Responsibilities:

• Define and project plan the QA strategy, test design / plan, test automation, and drive test execution for a key strategic service delivery transformation initiatives in conjunction with our clients.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing and Business Acceptance testing activities for our clients and project manage these activities and ensuring our clients are informed of progress.
• Define, lead and embed the strategy for front-end, back-end (JVM) and API automation frameworks and ensure this strategy is then converted into project activities for the rest of the team to follow.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and suggest new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met within an agile development team.
• Develop the testing strategy and enablement of User Acceptance Testing, partnering effectively with the build team to ensure goal achievement.
• Ensure that all automated testing related activities are carried out as per the standards defined by the company within the client project you are linked to.
• Contribute towards the plan and management of all release activities.
• Contribute towards the co-ordination the go-Live activities of client projects including the execution of deployment plans and checklists.
• Communicate all QA key project plans, commitments, and changes within project status calls internal and external.

Your Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in designing and developing QA automated test suites.
• Managing, developing and coaching a team of QA Automation Engineers.
• Proven track record of managing complex customer facing projects in large scale enterprise customer facing projects.
• Excellent programming skills in Java or other JVM languages to write effective test automation code.
• 5+ Years of experience of using BDD tools like Cucumber and Serenity.
• API testing tools to create tests, e.g. REST Assured, RestSharp, JMeter.
• Continuous Integration tools, e.g. Jenkins, Bitbucket, Github.
• Able to articulate tasks and plans and activities required for API and back-end testing.
• Experience planning for and executing end-to-end functional and non-functional tests.
• Proven track record of delivering test automation for highly complex software systems (Framework design).
• Excellent understanding of cloud based technology stack and building effective test solutions around it.

R3 is leading the future of digital finance by powering multi-party solutions that deliver digital trust and unlocking greater potential for regulated businesses everywhere. R3ers center around our core values – Collaborative, Ownership, Bold and Customer First – as a result our flagship DLT platform, Corda, is trusted by the world’s leading financial market infrastructures (FMIs), exchanges, central banks and commercial banks.

Corda is an open and permissioned distributed application platform that empowers regulated institutions to realize the full potential of direct digital collaboration to solve complex multi-party workflows.

R3 is is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace that supports all ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, origins, disability and veteran status and cultures. At R3, we’re committed to fostering an environment where individuality–not conformity–is embraced and valued because we believe our collective differences are what make us better together. If you don’t meet all of the above criteria, but you think you’d be a great addition to R3, send us your CV/resume. We’re always interested in meeting bold, collaborative people who are excited to work with us.