Mid level QA Automation Engineer

StoneX Group Inc.; Bogotá; Híbrido; COP 40.000.000 - 65.000.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work model

Descripción de la vacante

StoneX Group Inc. Bogotá is seeking a mid-level QA Engineer to join the Quality Assurance team, focusing on in-sprint automation and ensuring quality in automated test scripts. You will mentor teams, drive automation standards, and collaborate with development across multiple platforms to improve testing, performance, and reliability.

The role requires 3-6+ years in QA, strong automation, BDD knowledge, and experience with CI tools. This is a hybrid position with the office in Bogotá, Colombia.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science/ Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering.
• 3-6+ years of experience in IT, focusing on QA and automation testing.
• Proficient with major language (.NET and/or Java) and scripting (JavaScript, Python), APIs, GUI, XML/JSON, and SQL/NoSQL.
• Hands-on with testing tools such as Visual Studio, Rest API, Postman, Fiddler, Playwright.
• Manage the current test automation architecture and CI practices.
• Hands-on experience with modern automation tools for Web/Mobile/DB testing and current trends.
• Proficient with BDD and Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Strong SQL writing skills; relational DB concepts.
• Experience with CI tools: Azure Pipelines, Git, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks: TestNG/JUnit/NUnit/MS Test.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Test Rails for bugs and tests.
• Willingness to support manual testing if needed.
• Detail-oriented, initiative, judgment, and teamwork.
• Financial services experience is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Facilitate collaboration across delivery teams to apply standards and drive test automation.
• Define quality gates: code coverage, security scans, performance targets.
• Mentor and support teams on testing processes, automation, performance, scalability, data management, and end-to-end testing.
• Advocate for quality improvements and design next-gen testing architectures.
• Foster a quality-first culture through knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Keep skills current with market trends and emerging tools.
• Act as SME on issues affecting product quality, performance, and stability.
• Lead automation testing strategy, design, code reviews, and retrospectives for multiple teams.
• Collaborate with global QA to resolve issues encountered.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, products, upgrades, and vendor solutions.
• Communicate testing issues and resolutions to business, architecture, and operations stakeholders.

Conocimientos

QA Automation

Programming: .NET/Java

Scripting: JavaScript/Python

BDD: Cucumber/Gherkin

SQL/NoSQL queries

Test automation concepts

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Information Science/Computer Science/Engineering

Herramientas

Visual Studio

Postman

Fiddler

Playwright

Azure Pipelines

Git

Jenkins

TestNG/JUnit/NUnit/MS Test

JIRA

Confluence

Test Rails

Descripción del empleo

Permanent, full-time, hybrid in our office in Bogota.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: As a key position within the Quality Assurance team, the QA Engineer will collaborate within the Development team to build in sprint automation. This role should work under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate level of quality is designed into automated test scripts.

The Mid-level QA Engineer be hands-on automation developer in the team. S/he will provide test automation leadership as well as continuous improvement within the software testing discipline. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Primary duties will include:

• Facilitate collaboration across delivery teams to ensure implementation of overall standards, best practices, and continuous improvement topics, such as: unit testing, continuous delivery, code reviews, and test automation.
• Collaboratively define quality gates for projects: code coverage, security scans, performance targets, etc.
• Mentor, train, and support other teams and team members for overall testing processes and strategy, automation, performance and load, scalability, high availability, test case/data management, disaster recovery, security, and full integration testing.
• Be an advocate for positive technological and quality changes in the enterprise.
• Design, create, and build next generation quality focused architectures and concepts.
• Ensure a quality-first culture and mindset at StoneX: organizing knowledge shares, social gatherings, sharing best practices/feedback, and fostering collaborative ideas for helping our communities grow.
• Maintain an intense curiosity and devotion to keeping skills current with market trends and researching newer tools/ideas within the industry.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on issues that impact product quality, performance scalability, and system stability
• Effective at facilitating/driving quality for an application: including Automation testing strategy, design, code review, and retrospective sessions - and perform this process for multiple teams and applications.
• Works closely with global QA team and assists in resolving issues they may encounter.
• Evaluates and recommends new tools, products, upgrades, and vendor/multivendor solutions.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders (business, application, architecture, and operations) in non-technical terms on issues that are encountered in testing and possible resolutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science/ Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering is required.
• 3-6+ years of experience in Information Technology field, focusing on Quality Assurance and Automation Testing.
• Proficient with major language (.Net and/or Java, etc.), scripting languages (JavaScript, python, etc.,), APIs, GUI interfaces, XML/JSON, and SQL/NoSQL technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with testing and quality tools such as: Microsoft: Visual Studio / Rest API, Postman/Fiddler, Playwright.
• Manage the current test automation architecture, frameworks, coding standards and suggesting improvements in the current Automation Testing Strategies/Practices.
• Hands on experience with cutting edge automation tools for Web, Mobile, Desktop, DB and Web-service testing etc. and well versed with current test automation technology trends.
• Proficient with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and BDD tools (e.g., Cucumber/Gherkin).
• Strong knowledge of writing relational database queries, procedures, Database Development tools and concepts.
• Experience and strong understanding of performance automation tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter etc.
• Experience with enterprise tools and CI tools such as Azure pipelines, Git, Jenkins.
• Hands on experience in unit test framework like TestNG/ JUnit/ NUnit/ MS Test.
• Working with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Test Rails to log any bugs and test results.
• Comfortable with supporting team with manual testing if needed.
• Detail-oriented, demonstrated ability to show initiative, good judgment, and resourcefulness.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented, results driven culture.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact across all levels of the organization.
• Exposure within the Financial services sector is preferred.

Working environment

• Hybrid (Office location: Avenida Carrera 9A - Avenida Carrera 9A # 115-06/30 Edificio Torre Tierrafirme Bogotá, 110111 Colombia)