Quality Engineer

The Team: The Quality Engineering team works in partnership with other Technology Functions and the Business to ensure quality delivery of our products. The team works in an Agile environment and is located globally. The team is independent in driving all decisions and is responsible for continuously improving customer experience, revenue growth and operations enablement through quick turn-around of development of our products with high quality.

The Impact: As a Quality Engineer II, you will make a significant contribution in building solutions to test applications across Web/Windows/API/Services platforms and framing efficient data comparison methods. Your challenge will be reducing the time to market for products without compromising quality, by leveraging automation and innovation. You will use a wide range of technologies and have the opportunity to interact with different internal teams.

Whats in it for you:

• Working with a team of highly skilled, ambitious and result-oriented professionals.
• Using a wide range of cutting-edge technology to innovate while testing.
• An ever-challenging environment to hone your existing skills in Automation (Desktop/Web/API), Performance, service layer testing, SQL scripting etc.
• Being a part of an organization which values Culture of Urgency and Shift Left approaches.
• A plenty of skill building, knowledge sharing, and innovation opportunities.
• Building a fulfilling career with a global financial technology company.
• Exposure to learn and improve your statistical and quantamental skills.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automation/performance solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable and maintainable automated regression suites & test harnesses
• Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams
• Work in the agile environment and adhere to all QA best practices.
• Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria
• Active co-operation/collaboration with the global teams at various geographic locations
• Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database testing requirements.
• Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment
• Involve in requirements review and participate in architecture/design reviews with an emphasis on test automation/performance strategy and ensuring best practices
• Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities
• Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions
• Estimate and perform risk analysis for quality delivery
• Provide prompt response and support in resolving critical issues (along with the development team)
• Implement CI/CD using by integrating Automation builds Pipelines
• Think like a quant and dive deep into statistics and data points calculation.

What Were Looking For:

• Bachelor's or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 3-6 years of experience in software testing or development with good understanding of testing, coding and debugging procedures
• Experience in design and development of automated tests using Java across the application layers (UI/Service/Data layers) and root cause analysis
• Proficient with Software development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, QA methodologies, defect management system, and documentation.
• Experience in scripting via VBScript, Powershell, Excel Macros, groovy is good.
• Excellent understanding of Software Testing Theory is essential.
• Excellent Analytical and communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases, engage in Exploratory Testing, creating and maintaining Defect Reports
• Experience in refactoring and extending test automation/performance frameworks and suites as necessary
• Experience of testing SOAP/REST service and understanding of SOA architecture
• Experience with source control tools such as GIT, TFS and SVN
• Experience with Test Data Management and mapping automated test code coverage
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• A keen interest in analytics, quants and statistics is essential.
• Experience of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices
• Experience of testing in CI, DevOps, rolling deployment/upgrade model is a plus
• Experience in using AzureDevops, Jenkins, VSTS is a plus
• Experience in creating and building Jenkins/ADO pipeline as code is a plus
• Experience in performance testing tools like HP LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling is a plus
• Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Azure and experience of testing micro-services, containers.