Are you an experienced Automation Test Engineer who is looking for a challenging role in a fast-paced environment? Do you have a proven track record of working in the financial services industry. Are you capable of working on your own on complex problems or collaborating with a big team. Do you have a knack for problem solving? Do you have expertise in one or more automation technologies?
Your team:
The Investment Portfolio Management team is part of the Investment Bank IT function. The team is responsible for a broad range of applications across Repo Trading, Inventory, Collateral Optimization and Transfer Pricing. Our role is to develop IT applications to meet the immediate and future needs of the GALM business.
Your expertise:
• Experience of developing a java based test harness or making significant enhancements to an existing framework.
• Experience of writing automated tests in Java, preferably BDD using cucumber for Java
• Experience of integrating automated tests with using a CI/CD pipeline like GitLab/Teamcity/Jenkins.
• Demonstratable knowledge of applying testing processes and principles in an Agile environment.
• Ability to work with analysts and other subject matter experts, in a globally distributed team, to test changes to our trading application suite
• Ability to investigate complex scenarios and explain the results to other members in the team. This requires ability to check logs on UNIX systems, running SQL queries on databases, etc.
• Flexibility to support the team with various activities like automation, manual testing, QA procedures, release management .
• Ability to continuously learn about business and technology processes in order to test them and protect the reliability and integrity of front office applications
• Innovation skills to suggest ways to enhance our testing processes to make them more effective and efficient.
• Fluent with JIRA, Confluence, Share Point, Gitlab, Autosys, Unix, SQL Developer, TOAD, etc.
• Suggest process improvements to enhance our software quality.
• Ability to influence others in the team to follow existing and new procedures.
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to communicate well verbally and in writing
• Prior experience of working in the financial services industry on trading/front office systems.
• Experience of writing automated tests in Java, preferably BDD using cucumber for Java
• Experience of integrating automated tests with using a CI/CD pipeline like GitLab/Teamcity/Jenkins.
• Demonstratable knowledge of applying testing processes and principles in an Agile environment.
• Ability to work with analysts and other subject matter experts, in a globally distributed team, to test changes to our trading application suite
• Ability to investigate complex scenarios and explain the results to other members in the team. This requires ability to check logs on UNIX systems, running SQL queries on databases, etc.
• Flexibility to support the team with various activities like automation, manual testing, QA procedures, release management .
• Ability to continuously learn about business and technology processes in order to test them and protect the reliability and integrity of front office applications
• Innovation skills to suggest ways to enhance our testing processes to make them more effective and efficient.
• Fluent with JIRA, Confluence, Share Point, Gitlab, Autosys, Unix, SQL Developer, TOAD, etc.
• Suggest process improvements to enhance our software quality.
• Ability to influence others in the team to follow existing and new procedures.
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to communicate well verbally and in writing
• Prior experience of working in the financial services industry on trading/front office systems.
