Automation QA Tester

Overview:
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Connecting clients to markets - and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

**Business Segment Corporate Functions**:
Automated Quality Assurance Analyst, Trading API Development will be a technical expert with a strong focus on software quality. They are great at designing software for testing and explaining it to both technology and business-oriented audiences and can work efficiently with a team of software and QA engineers to deliver projects.

**Position Purpose**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Liaise with the business/developers/BAs at concept stage to determine testing strategy and coverage
- Determine if the software will perform according to the user request and conform to guidelines
- Assess the impact and risks of new functionality introduced into the system
- Actively participate in sprint planning sessions and ensure requirements are clear and complete
- Provide accurate estimation for sprint planning
- Create test cases, BDD specifications and data (manual and automated)
- Ensure that adequate test coverage is provided
- Participate in team stand ups
- Actively implement Test Automation
- Understand and maintain the existing test automation suite
- Execute test scripts and analyze and record results
- Identify defects/anomalies and investigate their cause as well as documenting and tracking these defects
- Recommend improvements or corrections to developers or system analysts
- Review logs and reports to identify program processing errors and possible improvements
- Monitor multiple projects/software changes from concept to release and confirm correct behavior after release to live
- Understand and adhere to the Change Request process
- Be responsible for all phases of testing across various test environments
- Coordinate with Service Delivery teams to ensure the timely and correct release of software to live
- Contribute towards improving the QA process and quality standards across the organization
- Evaluate testing tools and software that can be implemented to aid QA and maximize testing coverage
- Be an active participant in sprint retrospectives and take any actions forward for continual improvement on the team’s ability to deliver
- Actively participate in knowledge sharing and team building exercises and be a champion of knowledge sharing

**Hybrid Model: 3 Days Office and 2 Days Work From Home.**

Qualifications:

- Relevant degree or equivalent training
- Good knowledge of the software development lifecycle
- Good knowledge of QA practices and processes
- Experience working in an Agile environment and BDD
- Strong in Programming fundamentals and ability to program in at least one programming language preferably C#
- Experience in test automation using a BDD tool preferably Specflow and/or Fitnesse
- Experience in debugging software
- Experience in building tools and utilities for automating testing tasks
- Experience in testing RESTful, SOAP as well as windows services
- Experience working in all phases of software testing right from requirements analysis up until QA/UAT sign off and release to live
- Some database understanding and SQL skills
- Experience in building, deploying and releasing software by working with developers
- Experience working with version control, build & deployment and test management tools
- Experience working with Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Test Manager is a plus
- Good business/ financial knowledge especially Trading CFDs, spread betting and Forex would be helpful

**Education / Certification Requirements**:

- Equivalent professional experience

**Working environment**:

- Hybrid/In-office/Remote
- Travel Requirements (if applicable)