Test Engineer (SimCorp Dimension)

Korn Ferry; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Professional development

Job summary

Korn Ferry Group seeks an experienced Test Engineer to drive automation testing; collaborate with IT and business stakeholders across regions. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for desktop, web, APIs, and cloud services within an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, test planning, and integration with DevOps tooling to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality across the asset management domain.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development and/or automation testing experience.
• Experience in asset management domain is a plus.
• Strong automation strategy and test planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation testing efforts across desktop, web, APIs and cloud apps.
• Develop automated frameworks and maintain test scripts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive Shift-Left/Automation-First culture.

Skills

Python/Java Testing

Test Automation

QA Practices

Agile / DevOps

Tools

Selenium

UFT

MS Azure Test Plans

GitLab

PyTest

Job description

• Enable & drive a culture of "Shift-Left" and "Automation-First" in the Agile Delivery Organization especially QA space.
• Collaborating with multiple IT & Business stakeholders at all levels across the bank, including international locations.
• Execute hands-on manual testing (functional, regression, UAT support) and ensure appropriate test coverage where automation is not suitable.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated frameworks and test scripts that are scalable, reusable and robust.
• Development of custom tools and integrate with existing tools to increase test engineering productivity.
• Develop test automation strategies/approaches/plans to deliver efficiencies and productivity improvements via test automation.
• Hands-on with automated testing methods for conducting multi-layer testing of Desktop, Web applications, APIs & Micro services, Database & Data Services, ETL, and Cloud based applications.
• Perform in-sprint automation testing and build a regression test suite.
• Comprehensive analysis of any errors found using logs, database queries, Legacy and Unix file system, etc.
• Expert in complete test and defect management life cycle across agile methodologies and tools.
• Generate test reports and status to be shared across multiple levels.
  We are looking for an experienced test engineer with strong understanding of automation strategies and a good understanding of the asset management business to join our client on a 12 month contract., 5+ years of proven development and/or Automation Testing experience, ideally in the finance sector.
• Proven ability to create test strategies and test plans covering both manual and automated test approaches.
• Product (domain) experience with SimCorp Dimension (core accounting platform for Asset Management) is required.
• Strong hands-on experience in end-to-end manual testing including test design, exploratory testing, defect triage, and release sign-off in an Agile environment.
• Good understanding of functional & non-functional testing and automation concepts and patterns (eg availability, scalability, performance and security).
• Strong understanding of Agile Scrum methodologies and DevOps tooling (eg GitLab)
• Knowledge of the Asset Management domain would be a plus

Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience on Python/Java Development for Testing. Preferably latest versions Python (3.x.x)/Java (17+)
• Hands-on experience on Python test frameworks like PyTest, PyUnit(Unittest), PySpark. Chispa and pytest-Spark would be a plus.
• Hands-on experience on multiple test automation tools/libraries/methodologies (ie TOSCA, Selenium, BDD, Cucumber, UFT, HP ALM, Maven, MS Azure Test Plans, GitLab & MS Visual Studio)
• Hands-on experience with Agile QA practices and BDD approach of testing