Automation Engineer

Our client is the FinTech global organization. Together with the Middle and Back-office services, the firm s cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the first front-to-back solution in the industry.
Our vision is to be the world s leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.
The firm s engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilizing next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.
Summary:
Work as a senior member of a Scrum team to execute the overall quality plan for one of the firm s products. The candidate should be a sharp automation engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a solid software testing foundation. This role requires a talented, detail oriented, enthusiastic individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well engineered, high-quality solutions. We are looking for a strong software engineer to build out the next generation of our software test automation infrastructure as part of our Quality Assurance Infrastructure team. The candidate will be responsible for developing, delivering and supporting the software infrastructure that enables automated product validation. This position provides services for planning and the execution of central automated regression runs for all product departments. In addition, this candidate is responsible for maintaining and expanding the labs which host both automated and manual testing as well as conducting staging and certification of the product media during the ship-stage of a release. Financial services industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
• Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity
• Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
• Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices
• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team s QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to our Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts.

Qualifications:
Education:
B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.
Experience:

• 2 - 4 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment
• Demonstrated experience programming with Java/C#, SQL and shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash
• Demonstrated experience implementing automation tests with Playwright strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Employees are expected to work from the from the office per country-specific company guidelines.

We are currently hiring for 6 resources.
2 - US
2 - Poland
2 - India