Join a UK-based tech-driven company at the forefront of financial data innovation. 

Role Overview

This is a Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE) role that sits within the Corporate Functions team that is part of the Client's Technology division. The QAE will work within an Agile team alongside software engineers, working on the next generation of strategic back office applications, ensuring the solutions are at the required quality to be released. The QAE will design and execute automated tests, exploratory manual testing either as part of a team or individually using mind maps, problem solving and communicating with various other team members.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with the QA Lead to define QA approaches and strategies

• For each delivery, define targeted QA approach, with a primary focus on delivering scalable automation approaches

• Participate in the Agile team from project initiation, including confidently identifying the QA Tasks for Stories

• Organize work effectively and escalate impediments or risks to delivery

• Ensure QA estimates are represented at Story level

• Oversee all QA activities, and execute owned QA tasks

• Participate in all Agile Ceremonies

• Provide QA Sprint deliverables

• Regular review of Story Acceptance Criteria to ensure business requirements are met

• Communicate to QA Lead on a regular basis by delivering progress reports

• Effectively communicate in the Agile team and ensure visibility and collaboration

• Ensure automation code is well commented and constructed

• Drive the importance of Quality throughout the entire SDLC

• Recommend areas for automation

• Build automation skills and participate in coaching opportunities

• Research independently tools used within the company

• Knowledge of Non-Functional testing

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Degree or equivalent industry experience

• Enterprise system experience

• Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role

• Experience of being part of delivering platforms and services involving multiple teams

• Experience of multi-year projects

• Experience of regulatory driven projects

• Financial sector experience

• Experience of a general purpose scripting language (such as Python, Perl, Ruby)

• Linux shell or Windows powershell experience

• Experience of CI and CD in an enterprise environment

• Experience of using a programming language in a professional environment

• Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery

• Experience of contribution to open source projects

• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle

• Knowledge of at least one full stack language as applicable to the role (such as Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, Python)

Desired

• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products