Expert Quality Guardian

Luxoft; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join their FRTB/SA-CCR regulations project. The successful candidate will create and execute product test plans, track defects, and work closely with stakeholders to improve product quality. Candidates should have at least 6 years of experience in software testing, with a strong background in the financial industry. An understanding of various asset classes such as Forex and Bonds, along with effective communication and analytical skills, is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software testing or related field.
• Experience in financial industry and different asset classes.
• Effective planning and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute product test plans to ensure quality standards.
• Track defects and work with developers to resolve them.
• Communicate with stakeholders on product issues.

Skills

Experience in software testing

Verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work independently

Quality assurance methods and techniques

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience with testing tools (JMeter, Selenium)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance or Capital Markets

Tools

Jenkins

Selenium

Postman

JMeter

Job description

Project description

You will be part of the FRTB/SA-CCR regulations project. Reporting to the Senior QA Manager, the Senior QA engineer creates and executes product test plans to ensure software products meet design specifications and product quality standards. Assists Development team with process improvements to improve product quality

Responsibilities

• Create test cases from product specifications.
• Executes test plans and test cases and compiles results.
• Sets up and maintains personal testing environments. May set up team testing environments.
• Assist in the review of software development processes to improve product quality.
• Tracks defects from detection to resolution and works with developers to reproduce and resolve defects.
• Communicates with stakeholders on product issues.
• Acquires and maintains knowledge of existing products, operations or systems.
• Reviews product documentation to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Provides support to stakeholders prior to GA release of software.
• Create and/or run SQL scripts to populate data and validate test results.
• Provide testing effort estimates for enhancements.

SKILLS

Must have

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Capital Markets
• At least 6 years of experience in software testing or related field
• Experience in the software or financial industry
• Experience with different asset classes: Forex, Money Market, Derivatives, Bonds and fixed income securities, Equities, Structured treasury products
• Experience in P&L components: Net interest income, trading income, FX gains/losses, MTM(marked-to-market), realized vs unrealized, valuation adjustment (CVA, DVA, etc)
• Experience in P&L analysis: understand and explain movements (market vs position vs model)
• Experience in P&L attribution: Yield curve shifts (DV01, PVBP), FX rates movements, Credit spread changes
• Effective verbal and written communication skills; effective customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of quality assurance methods and techniques, including the software development lifecycle.
• Effective planning and organizational skills, with an attention to detail.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to think 'out of the box' for process improvements.
• Ability to work with specialized software tools; effectively implement and evaluate new processes or plans.
• Ability to execute test plans and test scripts for commercial software applications, document expected results vs. actual results, and record software defects.
• Preferred knowledge of the Agile software development methodology.
• Experience in creating functional, non-functional, manual, and regression test scripts and reviewing them with the business and technical solution owner(s).
• Experience with one or more testing tools like JMeter, Postman, Selenium, or any open source tools, including Robot Framework
• Basic Jenkins pipeline usage

Nice to have

N/A