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Role Summary

The QA Automation Engineer proactively assists with the business stream Operations with increasing the quality of the systems they build and maintain. Working with QA, developers and stakeholders, the QA strives to improve system reliability, ensure fulfilment of business requirements, and prevent regression.

Responsibilities

• Test automation: Design, build, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks to reduce manual work.
• Shift-left integration: Collaborate early with developers and product managers to identify risks and define quality standards before writing code.
• CI/CD support: Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and deployment pipelines to provide rapid feedback on each code change.
• Technical Testing: Conduct specialized tests beyond UI checks, including API testing. Proactively investigating into performance/load testing, and database integrity verification.
• Defect management: Involves root-cause analysis to help developers prevent bug recurrence.
• Process governance: Establish and maintain quality standards, documentation, and select appropriate testing tools within the QA team.
• Coaching: QAs and developers on test quality, automation best practices, and testing discipline.
• Requirement Analysis: Reviewing business requirements and user stories to ensure they are clear, complete, and testable.
• Defect management: Find, log, and track bugs using Jira, collaborating with developers to confirm fixes.
• Quality reporting: Preparing reports for stakeholders detailing the software’s readiness for release.
• AI: Championed AI-driven quality initiatives by leveraging Generative AI and NLP to automate the conversion of user stories into Playwright scripts, reducing script development time and increasing sprint velocity

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Senior Level QA Automation Engineer
• Experienced in the configuration and implementation of a cross section of automated testing approaches and tools; unit, UI, browser, contract/API, performance/load, Playwright, Postman, Swagger etc.
• Experienced in following application(s) all beneficial: JIRA, XRAY, WIKI, Bitbucket cloud, AWS, Splunk, SQL, MongoDB
• Understanding of software diagnostic tools and testing methods (automation, smoke, functionality, usability, performance, regression, and user acceptance).
• Experience working closely with development teams and championing an automation-first and shift-left approach to quality control.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Agile and scrum development methodologies.

Desirable:

• Experienced with testing Post Trade system(s)
• Financial background

Company Values

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