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Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees.

Leonteq generated turnover of CHF 27.6 billion and posted total operating income of CHF 238.5 million in 2024. As of 31 December 2024, Leonteq's shareholders' equity totalled CHF 803.8 million. Leonteq has an investment grade rating from Fitch Ratings Ltd. and Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd., and ESG ratings from MSCI and Sustainalytics. Leonteq is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON), regulated by FINMA, and a member of the Swiss Structured Product Association. Founded in 2007, Leonteq operates in 13 countries, serving over 50 markets with a workforce of more than 500 professionals from over 50 nationalities. The Portugal branch opened in October 2021 as part of growth and the employment of up to 100 designated roles along the value chain.

We are looking for a motivated, eager-to-learn, hardworking and independent individual to join our growing QA/Financial Engineering team in Lisbon. As a Quality Assurance Financial Engineer, you will have a unique and exciting opportunity to join a young and dynamic company, committed to delivering value-added services in the investment product space.

You will be part of the Projects department, working closely with the IT development and business analysis teams as well as our quality assurance experts.

Thanks to a rapidly changing and growing organization, frequent communication with end-users and internal training on the investment products, you will validate pricing use cases and other automated tests on our highly specialized Test Automation Framework (TAF) – our gateway for IT software releases.

As part of the Test Automation and Test Management team, you will contribute to the rapid growth of test automation coverage for existing applications, as well as new ones under development.

• Ensure regression of Leonteq application landscape: from pricing to documentation.
• Prepare new test plans with business analysts and end users.
• Expand existing test plans by specification to developers or by coding yourself Python procedures.
• Be the central point of coordination for the release sign-off process, working with different Leonteq teams including development, release management and test automation.

• Scientific or Engineering background (MSc).
• Desire to learn about financial markets and Quality Assurance.
• Affinity with IT.
• Knowledge of Excel and/or Python.
• Good level of English.

• Knowledge of financial markets and products.
• Knowledge of modeling for financial products.
• Prior IT software experience (coding, database querying).
• Any relevant testing, IT or financial certification.

• Experience the dynamics of a leading fintech company.
• Be part of a multinational team/department spread across 6 locations.
• Learn about the universe of structured products and pricing of financial products.
• Work on state-of-the-art front and back end financial systems.
• Work in modern facilities at an exceptional location.