Technical Test Engineer

Euroclear; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Greater London is seeking a Technical Test Engineer to focus on infrastructure projects with a strong emphasis on testing and environment management. You will contribute to defining test strategies and execute both manual and automated tests. Candidates should have over 5 years of hands-on testing experience in the finance sector along with an understanding of Agile methodologies. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic team, supporting key technical initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on testing experience.
• Experience in the finance industry.
• Proficiency in BDD/TDD and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Technical Test requirements and Test strategies.
• Execute hands-on manual and automated tests.
• Support environment infrastructure setup.
• Manage x-platform test environment preparation.
• Perform environment impact assessment for changes.
• Communicate issues with stakeholders.

Skills

Hands on testing

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Understanding of infrastructure

Tools

UFT

Azure Dev Ops

Splunk

Cucumber

Selenium

Job description

Role Description

We are looking for a forward-thinking, self-motivated Technical Test Engineer to join the team. The Release & Test Orchestration Squad is a transversal team that supports the Tribe with a range of activities across Functional & Non-Functional testing, Test Automation, Environment Management and Release Management. The team covers infrastructure and technical projects that require technical analysis and testing.

The role will focus on technical testing on infra projects, contributing to the environment needs of technical/infrastructure projects as well as carrying out hands on test execution. The role will span our transformation program where we are moving from legacy applications to OpenShift/Kafka-based microservices and our legacy applications.

What You Will Be Doing

• Contribute to Infrastructure projects, define Technical Test requirements and feed into Test strategies
• Hands on test execution, both manual and automated testing, reporting progress and status
• Contribute to environment infrastructure set up and the creation of supporting documentation
• Contribute to the x-platform test environment preparation (build/refresh), ensuring it is progressing according to plan and escalating issues accordingly
• Contribute to the environment impact assessment of infrastructure changes e.g. security patches
• Provides guidance on ensuring requested environment(s) are correctly setup and ready on time to start the testing stages described in the HLTS
• Escalates risks, issues concerns to the Scrum Master as required
• Interfaces with relevant stakeholders (Hotline teams, Technical Teams, Business) for environment impact assessment & problem resolution

What You Will Bring

• Technology: HP Non-Stop, Linux, UNIX, OpenShift, Kafka, Java, C#, SQL, CICD
• Tools: UFT, Azure Dev Ops, Splunk, Cucumber, Selenium
• Experience: 5+ years hands on testing, finance industry experience, BDD/TDD, Agile, infrastructure projects experience
• Soft Skills: Open minded, forward thinking, strong proven stakeholder management, Engineering mindset