Senior QA Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Our outstanding specialists collect, connect, analyse, interpret, and visualize data to give it meaning to power more transparent financial markets and drive a more sustainable world. If you're the kind of person who values pushing boundaries as a team, bring your passion and potential to our community driven workplace at Refinitiv in Nottingham.

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join a growing Nottingham Technology Hub to support and drive testing & quality initiatives in conjunction with the development of our fintech applications. Ensuring the quality of our business systems is paramount, so you can get behind data that really matters.

Across this role you will help us build data delivery frameworks of the future, mainly in AWS but also using other cloud environments and periodically, our own data centres. You will also support and help implement the modernisation of our testing strategy as we transition into a microservices architectures and enable continuous delivery on the cloud.

Importantly, developing our employees is fundamental to Refinitiv's future success. Therefore, we will continue to develop you while you're in your role through e-learning platforms, AWS courses, and international projects.

Role Purpose

Drive quality control tests and analysis of outcomes to ensure technology solutions meet or exceed user acceptance standards and requirements.

Role Responsibilities

1. Design and code automated tests in Java (Junit, Rest-Assured) and UI testing tools (Selenium).
2. Embrace Behaviour Driven Development practices, e.g., 3 Amigos collaboration and Gherkin/Cucumber.
3. Implement a wide range of quality control tests and analyses to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end user requirements.
4. Draft and revise test plans and scripts to ensure alignment with standards and technology strategy.
5. Study requirement specifications and raise clarifications with Business and Technical Analysts.
6. Perform ongoing maintenance of testing technologies, resolving issues and escalating where necessary.
7. Recommend and support the implementation of improvements to quality control frameworks, processes, and best practices.

Minimum Requirements

1. This is an Individual Contributor role.
2. Knowledge of standard software quality assurance processes and methodologies.
3. Experience in designing and writing test automation scripts.
4. Experience in the software development life cycle, preferably in testing multi-tiered applications.
5. Enthusiasm for learning and developing themselves as a tester. For example, to learn new testing techniques, tools, or approaches.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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