Senior Testing Engineer (QA)
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Technical Expertise:
- In-depth understanding of Capital Markets: This includes knowledge of financial instruments, trading platforms, regulations, and industry best practices. Experience with various testing methodologies: Manual testing, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Automation testing and API testing
- Proficiency in agile methodology and workflow, AzureDevOps, Salesforce know-how
- Experience with test automation using Cucumber and Gherkin
- Knowledge of Test Automation Frameworks (Hybrid and Data-driven) Knowledge of databases and SQL queries: Ability to write basic queries to extract test data or verify results.
Testing Activities:
- Design and execute test plans and strategies:
- Align testing activities with business requirements and project objectives.
- Develop comprehensive test cases:
- Covering various functionalities, user journeys, and edge cases.
- Execute manual and automated test cases: Identify, report, and track defects. Perform performance and security testing: Ensure the system meets performance and security standards.
- Analyze test results and recommend improvements: Identify trends and suggest ways to optimize testing processes.
Communication and Collaboration:
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders: Developers, product owners, business analysts, etc.
- Collaborate with the development team to resolve defects and improve code quality. Participate in code reviews and provide testing feedback.
- Present testing results and findings in clear and concise reports.
- Always proactive, eager to learn new things and believe in efficiency and accuracy
Additional Responsibilities:
- Stay updated on industry trends: Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, regulations, and testing best practices in the Capital Markets domain. Contribute to the testing community: Share knowledge and expertise through presentations, internal training, or participation in industry forums.
- Take ownership of specific testing areas: Become a subject matter expert in specific areas of testing within the Capital Markets domain.
YOUR QUALIFICATION
- Must have 5-6 years of experience as a Test Professional in Quality Assurance Expertise of ETL Process
- Up-to-date knowledge of the latest testing developments.
- Basic Business Understanding of Financial Data Management Reference data, Asset Managers, Corporate Actions Desirable: expertise in any area of these or a combination would be a distinctive advantage
- Fluency in English
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and a self-assured approach
- Excellent communication and presentation skills including listening skills Proactive nature and a natural drive for problem-solving
- Enthusiastic, committed and result-oriented
- Good to have ISTQB certification is a plus
- Capital Markets Domain knowledge, preferably with BUY SIDE Firms and experience.
- Experience working with Reference Data Management setup and understanding of various asset classes (Equity, Derivatives, and Fixed Income etc.) and Market data feeds (Reuters, Bloomberg, MarkIT etc.).