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Senior SDET L1
Network Contracting
South Africa · On-site Contract Senior Yesterday
About the role
As a Senior SDET L1, you will take ownership of both backend development and testing excellence across integrated products:
Backend Development
- Develop backend systems and APIs using C#/.NET.
- Design, optimise, and maintain database structures using PostgreSQL.
- Contribute to system architecture, design reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Write clean, testable, high-performance code across multiple integrated products.
Automation & Quality Engineering
- Build, enhance, and maintain automated functional and non-functional tests.
- Ensure test coverage across integrated services and backend components.
- Review, design, and optimise test frameworks, tools, and pipelines.
- Lead and participate in code reviews with a quality-first approach.
- Drive quality gates, threat modelling considerations, and performance testing.
DevOps & CI/CD
- Build, manage, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using YAML, Docker, and automation.
- Troubleshoot complex pipeline issues and ensure automated, safe deployments.
- Ensure strong monitoring, alerting, and compliance within pipelines.
Technical Leadership
- Lead the implementation of best practices in software engineering and test automation.
- Mentor developers and testers in writing high-quality, well-tested software.
- Identify improvement areas and help reduce technical and testing debt.
- Collaborate across product, engineering, and architecture teams to support strategic delivery.
Requirement
- Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 4–6 years experience in software development and/or SDET roles.
- Strong Backend Development experience in:
- C#/.NET
- PostgreSQL
- DevOps / CI-CD pipelines / Docker
- Experience with automation, testing frameworks, and quality engineering.
- Solid understanding of SDLC, integration points, design patterns, and architecture.
- Ability to lead engineering quality practices and support the team technically.
Skills
C#CI/CDDevOpsDockerNETPostgreSQLYAML
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