QA Automation Engineer -Tech Lead

Who we are

GlobalLink is one of the best FX solution provider in industry with a suite of e-Trading Platforms, Technology and Workflow solutons, offering a highly regulated, trusted partner for eFX trading solutions and connecting to post-trade services.  It is a solution that provides with the technology and private label infrastructure to offer owned eFX service, including electronic pricing and execution, internalization, risk management and liquidity outsourcing through an application programming interface (API) and graphical user interface (GUI).

Our foreign exchange trading platforms FX Connect and Currenex have been ranked the No.1 Multi-Dealer Platform for the second year in a row in the annual FX Survey by Euromoney Magazine.  Also for the second year running, GlobalLink has won the Best Service category. The survey, now in its 44th year, is the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative annual study available on the foreign exchange markets. GlobalLink also maintained its No. 1 ranking as the leading Multi-Dealer Platform in real money for the fifth consecutive year.  FundConnect is another tool for navigating money market funds.  It provides the information and functionality you need to streamline the investment process and facilitate oversight and control over a global investment portfolio.

Who we are looking for

GlobalLink QA provides professional quality verification & assurance to applications in State Street asset services.  We’re looking for a candidate with minimum 10 years of experience software IT industry with hands-on QA & QA Automation.  This role will be responsible to perform functional and automation testing, which including Functional testing, ROI evaluation, automation framework & scripts development, and continuous integration etc. The role is based in Hyderabad, India.

What you will be responsible for

As a Hybrid QA Engineer you will

• Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies and test cases to assess product quality.
• Maintain efficient and timely communication between QA, Development and Product teams
• Adhere to company procedures for proper execution of compliance, training and regulatory duties
• Identify the areas of regression and contribute towards automation of newly added features and any development tools to increase QA efficiency
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automated testing for front end and back end solutions
• Participate in the complete software development life cycle including analysis, design, test execution, test automation and operational rollout
• Foresee the risks involved and pro-actively communicate and present the case in scrums and open forums.
• Provide crisp & clear analysis of issues found during testing with all the RCA to help fix the issues quickly.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Primarily adaptable and agile to any SDLC conditions and zeal to contribute in any given task.
• Strong and pro-active communication and quick learning ability with little or zero handholding.
• Demonstrable andcurrent hands-on experience using databases (Oracle, SQL) smartly to achieve the QA validations in quick time.
• Decent knowledge in UNIX finding RCA of issues through logs and events correlation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and trouble-shooting skills. Anticipate, identify, track and resolve issues and risks affecting own work and work of the project team.
• Understanding of web technologies, including web services, web application services and RESTful APIs
• Experience with API automation testing including unit test automation frameworks
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team

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