Role Overview
The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (SQA) will work within an Agile team as an advocate of Quality. The SQA will drive Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) to ensure business outcomes are delivered. They will work closely with product owners and developers to provide In-Sprint QA to match the team’s definition of Done and provide working software at the end of each Sprint. They will ensure quality of both the product as well as the test framework as it evolves. Each Sprint, the SQA will be expected to identify necessary testing strategies and drive their implementation whether it is manual session based, automation or system performance related. The SQA will work alongside like-minded, skilled engineers, solving complex problems and delivering great software to support successful, award-winning products. Strong in automation skills, they will lead the Agile team in a shift left methodology to have a high level of automation, of which the key focus should be API level testing.
Role Responsibilities
1. Collaborate closely with global Business Analyst, Development and QA teams for efficient test planning, test design and co-ordinate testing efforts between global teams.
2. Play key role in functional and automated tests, supporting design, development, execution and maintenance of scripts that run in CI/CD environment.
3. Mentoring and coaching the team members to stretch quality achievements
4. Consistently strive to empower the full Agile team in understanding the importance of QA
5. Promote delivery of quality software – unit tests, code reviews etc.
6. Demonstrate a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership and prioritization of tasks.
7. Experiment with multiple technologies and methodologies as part of delivery, to help guarantee the best solution and approach.
8. Take Ownership/Accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.
9. Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.
Experience / Competences
Essential
10. Degree or + 7 years equivalent industry experience preferably in finance or trading background
11. Demonstrable experience using JIRA, Zephyr, UI Automation tooling (Test Complete, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
12. Proficient in programming or scripting language such as Java, JavaScript or similar
13. Adept at analysing and identifying key areas for automation using development, data manipulation and scripting skills
14. Experience and developing end to end functional automated tests
15. Experience of designing Acceptance Test Criteria for functional requirements, writing and maintaining end to end tests with an Automated Framework.
16. Skilled in using CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Team City, Jenkins.
17. Experience of using BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber and performance/ NFR testing tool J-Meter or similar.
18. Non-Functional testing including, Performance, Load, Stress and Security testing
19. Knowledge of FIX Client / FIX API automation.
20. Understanding of trade life cycle and knowledge of broker/ trader platforms
21. Identify and raise risks to the project and product to key stakeholders. Work with Product Owners and BAs to prioritise/ mitigate risk
22. Participate in agreeing the Definition of Done to ensure Quality is central and achievement can be measured
23. Knowledgeable in Jira or similar issue management system.
24. Adept at working in Agile/ Agile SAFe engineering environments, exhibiting strong communication skills including collaboration with local and remote team members.
25. Appreciation of the full SDLC and driving the importance of quality throughout this process.
26. Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive and independent approach to problem solving and innovative solutions.
27. Pro-actively take initiative to collaborate and improve the teams quality and performance.
28. Delivery-focused and pragmatic, capable of working on multiple tasks simultaneously and managing deadlines.
29. Critically evaluate and offer challenge to design, approach or tooling to achieve the best outcome for the project.
30. Experience of reporting on testing progress and strategy, providing interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.
Desired
31. Background and experience of financial/ trading platforms and knowledge of financial markets
32. Broad knowledge of financial markets and Equity products
33. Relevant Testing Qualifications such as ISTQB, Agile Software Testing Courses
34. Knowledge of FIX protocol and ability to handle FIX interactions.
35. Understanding of Java and JavaScript.
36. In-depth knowledge of AWS services.
37. Experience with serverless architecture and microservices.
38. Experience with TDD, BDD or similar approaches to specifying requirements and design.
Band & Level – Manager, 6