QA Engineer, AVP

• ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) & MVRM (Market & Valuation Risk Management) IT group are part of Technology Data and Innovation and own and deliver on the RiskFinder platform to multiple stakeholders and sponsors.
• RiskFinder is the Banks Risk & Capital Management platform. It provides capability to calculate capital metrics, performs risk scenario analysis and portfolio risk analytics and related control functions across the Banks business lines.The system calculates over 600 billion scenarios per day on a high-performance compute grid, stores the results into a big data store and provides our end users the capability to aggregate, report and analyse the results.
• RiskFinder integrates distributed high performance grid compute and big data technologies to deliver the execution and analytics at very large scale required to process the volumes of scenarios within the timeframes required. The platform leverages in house quantative analytics and inputs to our front office pricing models to deliver full revaluation-based capital metrics across a complex derivates portfolio.
• Our technology stack includes Java, C, C++, PostGres, OracleDB, Lua, Python, Scala, and Spark plus other off-the-shelf products like caching solutions integrated into one platform, which offers great opportunity for technical development and personal growth in a domain with focus on engineering and Agile delivery practices.

Your key responsibilities

• The QA & Testing Engineer will define and manage testing strategies, plans and deliverables related to testing within specific applications and programmes of work on a global basis.
• The QA & Testing Engineer will manage and drive the adoption of recognized best practice and policy and contribute to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets.
• The QA & Testing Engineer will manage and be accountable for the functional and non-functional testing of one or more applications.
• The QA & Testing Engineer will work alongside project and programme stakeholders as well as Release Management to ensure that specific streams of work are progressing to plan, cross project and programme dependencies are identified and managed appropriately, provide guidance by example and act as the first escalation point for QA & Testing across their project or programme.

Your skills and experience

Requirements

• Ensure project / programme adherence to the Banks standard QA and Testing processes throughout the SDLC for each release
• Ensure cross-project and programme dependencies are identified early and managed accordingly
• Experience in the areas of testing with specialization in Automation testing
• Hands on experience in Web Applications Automation Testing
• Hands on experience in middleware/backend service based application Testing
• Experience in Usability, Functional and Browser Compatibility testing
• Experience in Agile test methodology. Individual must have experience of working within full Agile teams. They will need to have experience working within a fully functional team that performs analysis, dev and test for feature slices
• Experience in Defect tracking tools and Test reports
• Liaise with the DevOps team and carry on the testing effectively
• Should be good in communication and handle the stake holders effectively
• Identify the automation areas and provide roadmap to proceed further
• Hands on Experience in Selenium, Protractor, Rest Assured, Gherkin, Cucumber, Jenkins
• Working knowledge on Java is mandate
• Build automated Regression Testing capability
• Experience of performing Functional Analysis is highly desirable
• Experience of SQL is a must, PL/SQL would be desirable
• Champion and participate in the activities of the broader QA and Testing community
• Align to the wider domain objectives
• Drive a customer focused approach to delivering fit for purpose business functionality
• Support the development of an environment where people management and development is the number one priority. Coaches direct reports and others in the organization, as appropriate
• Actively supports the business strategy, plans and values, contributing to the achievement of a high performance culture
• Acts as a role model for new employees, providing help and support to facilitate early integration into their new environment

You will have

• Some exposure to Cloud, preferably GCP
• Experience in building & rolling out programme wide testing & test automation frameworks, with proven experience of managing QA & Testing across the full SDLC on large scale projects or programmes
• Proven experience of defining and implementing programme level test strategies
• Strong SQL experience is required.
• Unix/ Shell scripting experience is required.
• Java, Selenium/Protractor with python
• 8+ years experience in QA & Testing, with a minimum of 3 years gained within Investment Banking
• In depth knowledge of QA & Testing industry best practices and tools, including Jira and ALM/QC
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate at senior level
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
• Proven experience of delivering results in matrixed organizations under pressure and tight timescales
• Experience of implementing test automation frameworks
• Investment banking experience desirable