Senior Functional QA Engineer (with Python, Selenium, and strong Treasury financial instruments)

Luxoft; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to create and execute product test plans, ensuring software quality standards are met. Ideal candidates will have experience in the software and financial industry, with strong financial knowledge and effective communication skills. The role involves creating test cases, executing test plans, and working with developers on defect resolution, emphasizing teamwork and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in the software and financial industry is required.
• Strong knowledge of financial instruments and risk analysis is important.
• Effective communication and customer service skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create test cases from product specifications.
• Execute test plans and document results.
• Assist in reviewing software development processes for improvements.

Skills

Experience in the software and financial industry

Strong financial knowledge

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work independently or in a team

Effective planning and organizational skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Knowledge of Agile methodology

Tools

JMeter

Postman

Selenium

Robot framework

Basic Jenkins

Job description

Project Description

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

• Experience in the software and financial industry
• Strong financial knowledge: financial instruments, pricing methods, risk analysis
• Effective verbal and written communication skills; effective customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• 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.
• Preferred knowledge of the Agile software development methodology.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of quality assurance methods and techniques including the software development lifecycle.
• Experience in creating functional, non-functional, manual and regression test scripts and review them with the business and technical solution owner(s).
• Ability to execute test plans and test scripts for commercial software applications, document expected results vs. actual results, and record software defects.
• Ability to work with specialized software tools; effectively implement and evaluate new processes or plans.
• Experience with one or more testing tools like JMeter, Postman, Selenium or any open source tools including Robot framework
• Basic Jenkins pipeline usage