Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Play an integral role in an agile product development team, collaborating with the Product Owner, developers, modelers and client-facing colleagues to deliver on time and to a high quality
• Responsible for ensuring the combination of software platform, financial analytics and customer configurations and integrations work together seamlessly to provide optimal solutions for our customers
• Participate in the design, specification and planning of new product features
• Design and execute functional, negative and exploratory testing for new and existing features manually and through automation.
• Design and execute regression test plans for each software release
• Manage, monitor and maintain all automated test suites, ensuring that they run regularly, resolving or escalating any problems that are encountered
• Assist in the development of automated test frameworks, working with the Development team to specify and implement new automation features
• Maintain awareness of, introduce and use best practices and tools for test automation, scripting and QA processes
• Assist in the administration of internal tools, e.g. bug tracking, continuous integration, testing infrastructure when required
• Provide second line support for the software, assisting the Client Experience Group where required to diagnose and solve problems

Responsibilities
Skills / Experience Required

• Strong background in finance, preferably front-office
• Strong experience in software testing, including test case design, test execution, and test automation
• Experience with issue tracking and testing tools
• Strong problem-solving, technical and analytical skills
• Good communication and teamwork skills

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Strong knowledge of interest rates and/or foreign exchange market derivatives
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with front end test automation tooling e.g. Selenium
• Experience of Windows system administration.