Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Benchmark & Index Management
Key Functions:
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in Benchmark & Index Management the individual will be responsible for Quality Assurance (QA) through a variety of automation and functional test strategies for business-critical applications. The candidate will have experience in functional and automated testing solutions for business problems that involve complex User Interfaces, data intensive operations and process hand-offs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contributes and leads testing through high-quality functional and automation test scenarios
- Identifies, prioritises, and performs tasks in the software development lifecycle
- Advocate for and implement engineering guidelines for excellence, including automation, code reviews, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Ensures high quality, reliable products through a combination of functional testing and implementation of automated regression test frameworks
- Work with an Agile Delivery team to define test cases and distribute ownership across unit, integration and automation engineers
- Collaborates closely with business and engineering partners to deliver products, services, enhancements and solutions to meet customer needs and align with goals of the business and engineering lines
- Communicates with clarity, precision, and influence, presenting complex information in a clear and concise format that is appropriate for the audience
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence through mentorship, peer reviews, and promoting standard methodologies in software automation testing
- Continuously evaluate and enhance QA processes to improve efficiency, reduce cycle times and enhance overall product quality
Experience & Skills:
- Over 8+ years proven experience as a QA Engineer, designing, implementing and recording test results on both functional and automation in large-scale data intensive platforms
- Strong experience in test case design, performing functional and automation testing
- Identifying defects and performing root cause analysis
- Proficiency in QA and Test Automation suites and technologies (e.g. Cucumber, Mocha, Selenium, etc)
- Experience of MS-SQL or PostgreSQL, including data analysis, setup and execution of test scripts (e.g. Liquibase)
- Experience of C# .NET, Java or Python programming languages, required for root cause analysis and automation
- Prior experience of automating the business logic embedded in the back-end and middleware on C#.net / SQL Server with front end on Angular / Silverlight
- Solid understanding of AWS cloud technologies, particularly AWS EC2, preferable knowledge of AWS Native services such as EKS, Lambda, etc.
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality, maintainable code and systems.
- Extensive experience in software engineering principles, CI/CD tools and automation processes
- Strong analytical skills and a problem-solving mentality
- Some experience of Business and Technical Analysis, Delivery Management, and/or Emerging Technology and Governance
- Experience working in an agile environment with a focus on collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement
- Experience with Financial Markets in Equities and / or Fixed Income
- Familiarity with performance, security and other non-functional testing approaches (e.g. JMeter, Apache Benchmark, etc)
Key Attributes:
- Articulate, energetic person able to work alone or as part of a team
- Excellent attention to detail but an ability to think laterally to solve business problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical collaborators
- A passion for continuous learning and improving software engineering practices
- Ability to learn quickly, work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow junior engineers
- Creative, results driven, self-motivated and solutions oriented
- Demonstrates a can-do attitude, exhibits self-confidence
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