Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
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European Remote
$Typical hours are Monday-Friday, working GMT/BST with potential on-call support required
We’re looking for an experienced SDET to help us strengthen and scale our automated testing systems across complex microservice and data‑driven environments. Building, maintaining and improving automated testing frameworks (primarily in Python using Pytest) for the scraping platform
Designing and executing test strategies that align with team goals and product requirements
Maintaining documentation on test coverage and plans
Collaborating with Developers, Data Engineers and Analysts to uphold quality standards across releases
Contributing to continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes and monitoring improvements
About the Data Ingest Team The Data Ingest team is the oldest team at FXC Intelligence, existing in some form for over six years now.
We provide the platform for collecting unstructured data from open third‑party websites and mobile apps, and make sure that the data collected corresponds to company data quality standards and SLAs. The team also maintains over 200 scrapers for different providers of data, which power most of the company’s critical datasets.
3+ years of commercial experience, including at least 6 months in QA automation or SDET roles
~ Experience testing microservices, databases, data pipelines, or LLM solutions (not just UI or API automation)
~ Comfortable coding in Python and using Pytest
~ Created testing approaches or led improvements in QA processes
~ Understanding of CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI
Experience with Pandas, NumPy or machine learning concepts
Hands‑on experience with AWS (e.g., Glue, Lambdas, S3)
Knowledge of SQL and database testing
Familiarity with Kafka or RabbitMQ
Exposure to monitoring tools like ELK or Prometheus
Python, Pytest, Pydantic, Pandas
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