Senior QA Automation Engineer

Overview
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.

At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

Payments
: A Swift-accredited service bureau and member, our Payments division provides NGOs, institutions and non-profits the ability to make a local difference, globally – with transparent pricing across 180+ countries and 140+ currencies.

Responsibilities
Position Purpose:
As a key position within the Quality Assurance team, the Senior QA Engineer will collaborate within the Development team to build in sprint automation. This role should work under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate level of quality is designed into automated test scripts.

The Senior QA Engineer be hands-on automation developer in the team. S/he will provide test automation leadership as well as continuous improvement within the software testing discipline. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:
Primary Duties:

• Facilitate collaboration across delivery teams to ensure implementation of overall standards, best practices, and continuous improvement topics, such as: unit testing, continuous delivery, code reviews, and test automation.
• Collaboratively define quality gates for projects: code coverage, security scans, performance targets, etc.
• Mentor, train, and support other teams and team members for overall testing processes and strategy, automation, performance and load, scalability, high availability, test case/data management, disaster recovery, security, and full integration testing.
• Be an advocate for positive technological and quality changes in the enterprise.
• Design, create, and build next generation quality focused architectures and concepts.
• Ensure a quality-first culture and mindset at StoneX: organizing knowledge shares, social gatherings, sharing best practices/feedback, and fostering collaborative ideas for helping our communities grow.

Qualifications
Qualifications:
To land this role you will need
:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science/ Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering is required.
• 5-8+ years of experience in Information Technology field, focusing on Quality Assurance and Automation Testing.
• Proficient with major language (.Net and/or Java, etc.), scripting languages (JavaScript, python, etc.,), APIs, GUI interfaces, XML/JSON, and SQL/NoSQL technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with testing and quality tools such as: Microsoft: Visual Studio / Rest API, Postman/Fiddler.
• Manage the current test automation architecture, frameworks, coding standards and suggesting improvements in the current Automation Testing Strategies/Practices.
• Hands on experience with cutting edge automation tools for Web, Mobile, Desktop, DB and Web-service testing etc. and well versed with current test automation technology trends.
• Proficient with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and BDD tools (e.g., Cucumber/Gherkin).
• Strong knowledge of writing relational database queries, procedures, Database Development tools and concepts.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience and strong understanding of performance automation tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter etc.
• Experience with enterprise tools and CI tools such as, Azure pipelines, Git, Jenkins.
• Hands on experience in unit test framework like TestNG/ JUnit/ NUnit/ MS Test.
• Working with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Test Rails to log any bugs and test results.
• Comfortable with supporting team with manual testing if needed.
• Detail-oriented, demonstrated ability to show initiative, good judgment, and resourcefulness.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented, results driven culture.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact across all levels of the organization.
• Exposure within the Financial services sector is preferred.

Working Environment:

• Hybrid (4 days from office)