Automation Engineer Team Lead, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

STATE STREET CORPORATION; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech division is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead a small team while participating in Scrum activities. The candidate will focus on building automation infrastructure, perform quality assurance tasks, and provide mentorship, requiring solid experience in software testing, Agile methodologies, and programming skills.

Qualifications

• 6 - 9 years of experience in software testing in a tech environment.
• Experience managing teams of 6-10 people.
• Strong programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a QA team while also performing Senior QA Engineer duties.
• Create and execute automation test scripts.
• Mentor junior staff in test script creation.

Skills

Automation Testing

Java

C#

SQL

Problem-Solving

Agile Methodology

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

MS degree preferred

Tools

Automation Test Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Who we are:

Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street. Together with State Street’s Middle and Back-office services, Charles River’s cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the State Street Alpha Platform, 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.

CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilising next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.

Industry momentum has seen CRD grow over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years, and we continue to grow. As a digital innovation leader, we invest into our solutions, processes, systems, and talent.

As a part of our talent growth strategy, CRD Engineering is actively hiring in Dublin as we are investing in growing our European presence.

Summary:

This role will manage a small number of QA team members while also working as a senior member of a Scrum team to execute the overall quality plan for one of Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.

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:

• Manage a team of QA engineers
• 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 the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in “testathon” activities as required by releases
• Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts.
• Financial services industry experience is preferred.

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:

• 6 - 9 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment
• Experience managing and mentoring small teams of up to 6-10 people
• Demonstrated experience programming with Java, C#, SQL and shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash
• Demonstrated experience implementing automation tests with industry standard tools.
• 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
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas strongly desired
• A minimum of 6 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Employees are expected to work from the office 2 days a week.

Supervisory Responsibility:

☐ Individual Contributor ☒ Team Lead ☐ Manager of Managers

Travel:

May be required on a limited basis.