SDET @MMCTech

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THE ROLE & YOUR MISSION

We are looking for a new colleague to join our SDET team. A visionary forward thinker who views quality holistically and can drive a quality engineering ethos throughout the POD.  Understanding industry trends around tools, methods, and practice - implementing where possible. You must be a team player who can work across many teams to establish shift left quality and test automation approach.

• Implements and oversees the test automation approach (working with all squads within the POD) to deliver the Test Automation Strategy including CICD, nonfunctional testing - performance, security engineering, compatibility, accessibility testing 
• Drives out improvements and innovation around tooling, frameworks and approaches working on shift left first principles and the automation pyramid
• Able to work constructively with other POD leads and Squad leads to ensure the best value is being driven through the automation approach and that the approach is consistent with other PODs where beneficial
• Works with the POD leads and the business/POs to ensure there is a holistic and consistent approach to Quality (through RCA, metrics, code quality, (defect) stage containment) and ensures cross communication and collaboration on QA best practices, risks and open issues across other PODs
• Leads and federates the overall test approach to the Squads - built-in quality, metrics, methods and tools
• Leads process improvement initiatives focus on Quality, Velocity and Efficiency (agreed across the POD) e.g closer alignment to business acceptance, operations etc
• Ensure consistency across all squads in line with POD strategy/maturity/priorities/global approach - undertaking quality reviews and deep dives to ensure there is a consistent approach
• Input into PI planning, and subsequent resourcing planning - including skills profiling and identify training requirements for POD members 
• Identify supplier training requirements and feed into global KPI and supplier measures
• Provides timely reports with qualitative and quantitative analysis of test coverage, defect trends & leakage enabling key stakeholders (including Squad leaders) for timely course correction
• Define and design quality metrics and dashboard to enable the Pod lead & PO to frequently gauge the quality of the software
• Manage a team of Test Engineer leads and Test analysts

YOUR EXPERIENCE & VALUES

• Strong understanding of Test Engineering and Quality Assurance best practices, tools and policies
• The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment
• Proven track record of successfully delivering Quality software solutions
• Strong Leadership skills and a team player
• Experience or knowledge of working with Agile at Scale, Lean and Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience in selenium tools and Configuring Selenium Test Environment (Ex: Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium-C# etc…). Involvement in Test Environment Setup
• Familiar with Automation Framework Design and Implementation
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Excellent communication both in English and Romanian

Technical Skills Required

• Proficient in the following Test automation languages and frameworks; JavaScript, Selenium-C#
• Strong experience working with MSSQL, API test automation
• Good understanding of working with a source control systems such as Azure DevOps/TFS, Github or Bitbucket
• Experience working with Jira

OUR BENEFITS & CULTURE

• An opportunity to work in a fast-growing, innovative company with lots of room for progression and career growth
• A fail-friendly environment that encourages learning and initiative
• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary)
• 30+ days off (25 legal days off, 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
• Performance Bonus scheme
• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge
• Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance
• We champion flexible working, and our mission is to help you find YOUR work-life balance, whether that's standard working, flextime working, or working from home

As a company, we are committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. Our teams will jointly identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which the full team will be together in person. This unwavering policy is carefully crafted to enhance team unity, inspire creativity, and foster meaningful interactions between our colleagues, to help build our culture and local communities.

Founded over 20 years ago, Darwin's main ambition was to change the world of benefits. Fast forward to the present day and it is leading the way as a cornerstone benefits technology product in the Marsh McLennan, (MMC), Tech portfolio. MMC are now building out their EMEA Technology Hub in Cluj, Romania.

MMC is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. It comprises the businesses of Marsh, Mercer, Guy Carpenter, JLT, Oliver Wyman and Darwin.

The regional hub will contain teams of Application Developers, Business Analysts, Project/Program Managers and other technology roles that require time zone overlap with clients in EMEA. As a regional hub, we are equipped to scale our vast technical expertise through a variety of outputs, while helping to unleash our potential as one company, to effectively meet today's emerging challenges through the brilliant technology we build and deliver together.