Job Role: Automation Test Developer

Job Location: Hybrid (London)

Job Description:

• Looking to hire an Automation Test Developer, the role spans the automation of low-level business functional tests through to mid-level system integration tests. The successful candidate will have to co-ordinate with the Operations Change Business Analysis team, Development teams, and Project managers, as well as testing teams. 
• The successful candidate will have an excellent QA background with experience of a variety of automation test tools, technologies and have business domain expertise and experience of delivery in complex fast-moving environments. Excellent communication skills will be vital in this role. The role will be reporting to the Test Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to enhancement of the automation packs and test automation framework.
• Work with QA Engineers and Development Team to enhance testing tools and processes
• Develop Test Scenarios and Cases from business requirements ensuring there is traceability back to all requirements.
• Work with the business and technical sponsors to qualify the requirements and if identified, track and monitor gaps until sign-off.
• Prepare the test data.
• Maintenance and execution of tests, recording of results and undertaking defect fix re-testing, integration and regression testing.
• Reporting defects and progress in a clear and concise way in accordance with defect standards.
• Identify risks and escalate issues to the project stakeholders.
• Implementing test plans to deliver test phases on time.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Extensive automation testing experience in Investment Banking IT, preparing and executing automated tests on a Financial platforms.
• Extensive experience of creating automated tests for various layers of applications.
• Working knowledge of investment banking products - OTC Derivatives, Listed Derivatives, FX, Equity, Fixed Income.
• Experience of requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers and resolving issues.
• Minimum 5 years recent experience on QA Java automation-backend.
• Agile testing delivery.
• Test execution using GUIs and APIs.
• JIRA, SQL, Cucumber, Git, Zephyr

Desirable Skills:

• AWS Cloud.
• ORQA.
• Python