Senior Test Engineer

Peoplebank; Cumberland; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Peoplebank is seeking a Senior Test Engineer in Australia to collaborate with developers, support analysts, and business analysts to refine requirements, design and run test plans, manage defects, and report progress. The role emphasises manual testing within Capital Markets and financial services, with familiarity of FpML, SWIFT, or FIX as a plus.

The ideal candidate brings extensive QA experience, strong communication, and stakeholder engagement skills to ensure quality across system,

Qualifications

• 6-12 months hands-on experience writing BDD/Cucumber feature files.
• 8-10 years total QA experience, with a strong focus on manual testing.
• Experience in Financial Services, Capital Markets (3-5 years preferred).
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies in a structured environment.
• Proven experience across system, system integration, regression, end-to-end, and parallel testing.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Familiarity with messaging protocols such as FpML, SWIFT, or FIX is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Review and refine requirements with developers, support analysts, and business analysts.
• Develop and execute test plans.
• Manage defects, track and report progress.
• Escalate issues to the Test Lead when necessary.

Skills

BDD/Cucumber

QA experience

Capital Markets

Testing methodologies

System testing

System integration testing

Regression testing

End-to-end testing

Parallel testing

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

FpML

SWIFT

FIX

Job description

Our client is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will work closely with developers, support analysts, and business analysts to review and refine requirements, develop and execute test plans, manage defects, track, and report progress, and escalated issues to the Test Lead when necessary.

Skills & Experience Required

• 6-12 months of hands-on experience writing BDD/Cucumber feature files
• 8-10 years of total QA experience, with a strong focus on manual testing
• Experience in Financial Services, ideally Capital Markets (3-5 years preferred)
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies in a structured environment
• Proven experience across system, system integration, regression, end-to-end, and parallel testing
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Familiarity with messaging protocols such as FpML, SWIFT, or FIX is highly desirable

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