Software Development Engineer in Test

Why Flexciton and this opportunity At Flexciton, we work with high-tech factories built with investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars, producing advanced chips at the atomic level. It can take up to nine months to fabricate these cutting-edge products. We are proud to be the only SaaS product in the world that plans and schedules production in high-tech semiconductor fabs, using complex algorithms in real-time, all from our London office. Our technology consistently delivers the best production schedules, and leading companies like Seagate and Microchip trust Flexciton to run their production 24/7. With operations across the US, Europe, and expansion into Asia, we are on a path to realise our vision for the Autonomous Factory. About the Role: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), where you will face unique challenges in testing our optimization-based technology. Our solutions drive manufacturing processes that generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The complexity of the systems we model and the trillions of alternative solutions we evaluate make interpreting the output of our technology a significant challenge. Our customers rely on us to deliver robust, resilient, and secure products to run their mission-critical operations, and quality assurance is essential to our success. Over the next 12 months, we are expanding our product offerings and increasing the number of factories we support, which will require even more automation. We generate more than 10,000 schedules daily to operate hundreds of multimillion-dollar semiconductor manufacturing equipment in photolithography, etching, metal deposition, and metrology. What Success Looks Like in the next 6-12 Months Engineers across the organization write better tests, covering all levels of the testing pyramid. Collaboration with the engineering leadership team to produce data-driven strategies to evaluate and improve our testing efforts across all of our products. Progress towards improved QA is measured systematically Our testing suite runs efficiently, minimizing the impact on development while maintaining robustness and speed. Engineers are enabled to contribute to effective and high efficiency automated testing. We are continuously improving customer operations and experience, and we achieve increased productivity in engineering. Lead QA efforts with the ability to expand the QA capability and QA leadership skills in the existing team and plan for the future growth. Key Responsibilities As an SDET, you will be a pivotal part of our engineering team, working across multiple products, product teams, and our platform engineering team. You will define, plan, execute, and implement testing strategies across our tech organization, driving QA initiatives that foster a culture of delivering high-quality software to our customers. Own and implement the test strategy, ensuring that engineers validate their work and contribute to automation testing. Develop and maintain automated test suites, including integration and end-to-end tests. Develop tools for integration, regression, load, and performance testing. Conduct manual testing and sign-off on features impacting mission critical operations in semiconductor fabs. Work within product teams to deliver quality software. Develop new testing plans for pre-release phases. Lead exploratory and manual testing efforts. Mentor, coach engineers on best testing practices, promoting a healthy testing culture Contribute to product development, identifying and addressing gaps in design and testing. Ensure all releases meet customer-, business-driven quality standards before deployment. Work closely with Product Managers to define requirements and go-live criteria. Gain a deep understanding of customers and the domain to effectively anticipate and test edge cases. Report to senior engineering leadership (VPoE) Requirements Proven experience (at least 5 years) in planning, leading, and implementing QA and testing strategies. Proven experience with software development skills, ideally in Python. Experience with SaaS products, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of SDLC best practices. Desired experience in security, and infrastructure testing and practices. Benefits Competitive salary based on skills and experience Stock Options so when we make it big - so do you L&D Opportunities We are determined to continuously develop ourselves, our company and our teams. We have a £500 training allowance for every employee. We also have our mini library where we keep adding books every week. We want to be able to create as many opportunities for our teams' growth . Hybrid working model of 3 days in the office (Monday, Tuesdays and Fridays) and 2 days working from home. Breakfasts and Snacks Our office is stocked with snacks, drinks, fruits, cereal. Monthly lunches in the office Quarterly team activity or dinner Annual Team Trip Every year, we take our team to an annual retreat where we have strategy workshops, foster our culture and do lots of fun activities. Additional day of holiday every year (up to 30 days) after two years of service. Discounts with Charlie HR perks Get discounts on brands, cinema tickets, shopping, travel and many more Season Ticket Loan/Cycle to Work Scheme 2 Weeks Work From Anywhere Policy