Software Developer Engineer in Test

MCS Group is delighted to be partnering with one of our closest clients, a rapidly scaling Insurtech firm, to recruit a Software Development Engineer in Test at a hugely exciting time for the business. With significant investment secured for 2025, the technology team is set to expand by over 50% in the first half of 2026, including major growth within the testing function.

This exclusive opportunity will see you champion quality across a suite of enterprise-grade, distributed software products, while helping embed modern test automation practices across the organisation. You'll work as part of a high-performing engineering team to ensure their platforms are reliable, scalable, secure, and built for the future.

This is a hybrid role based in Belfast.

What You'll Do

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you'll play a key role in shaping the quality strategy within your engineering pod, delivering automated and manual testing across web applications, APIs, and cloud hosted services, while working closely with engineers at code level.

• Build and maintain automated test suites and frameworks using modern tools such as Selenium, Cypress and Playwright

• Write and maintain code to support testing, framework development and internal tooling

• Develop reusable test components, utilities or libraries used by wider engineering teams

• Design and execute functional, integration, performance and security tests, ensuring smooth third party integrations

• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Platform Engineers and Product teams to embed quality early in the life-cycle

• Validate developer unit tests and ensure solutions align with business requirements

• Drive continuous quality improvements through CI/CD integration and strong version control practices

• Conduct performance and load testing to assess scalability and system reliability

• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) to validate infrastructure and service integrations

What You'll Bring

• Strong commercial experience in software testing, with a clear focus on automation and engineering led quality

• Programming experience in JavaScript or C#, with confidence writing code beyond test cases

• Experience building test frameworks, tooling or shared components used by engineering teams

• Proven experience with modern test automation tools and frameworks

• Experience testing cloud based systems and microservices

• Solid API testing experience

• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps etc.)

• A passion for building high quality software, a collaborative mindset, and the confidence to challenge constructively where needed

Salary & Benefits

Up to £60,000, plus a competitive benefits package.

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Djay Erskine, Specialist IT Recruitment Consultant, at MCS Group

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