Project description
Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.
Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
Responsibilities
- - Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.
- Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate
- Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
- Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.
- Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
- Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing
- Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
- Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth
Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.
SKILLS
Must have
- Core Skills:
- Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar)
- Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build/release workflows
- Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development
- SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification
Domain Experience:
- Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms is strongly preferred
- Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an asset
- Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plus
Nice to have
• AWS cloud testing experience
• Performance and load testing exposure