Role description:
The candidate must come from a strong test/QA engineering background, working within product engineering teams Data Management, Content onboarding and Distribution, Business and Operations to deliver large-scale product solutions within the Banking/Financial services sector. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a solid understanding of the whole system development and test lifecycle, focusing on test design, test planning, test frameworks and coordinating large scale testing projects within wider cross programme demands and commitments. This role should include working with Development, Business Analysis, Architects, Product Owners, TDMs and other Business stakeholders to manage and deliver products/projects to meet LSEG Quality standards across all the projects’ role out to Production.
The successful candidate will have an excellent QA and analytics skills with experience of a variety of test design techniques, technologies and have business domain expertise on data platforms and experience of delivery in complex fast-moving environments. Excellent communication skills will be vital in this role.
Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
To work within the LSEG Shared Technology Data Services Global teams and be responsible for functional, non-functional, regression and end-to-end certification of Data Services.
Work with IDPS QA manager to implement QA strategies across the Data Services Quality Engineering.
Work with the existing Data Services SCRUM AGILE teams, Dev, BA, QA resources to implement QA strategies to be consistent with the strategies across the Data Services
Work with Technology Delivery Management, Product Engineering, Development, Testing, Support, Project Management, Operational Support and Business stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional requirements, agree on acceptance criteria, plan, design and develop test scenarios and take ownership of testing cycle.
Must have multi years’ testing experience on ETL applications and cloud based data services technology. Testing experience on tools such as Python, Java, TestNG, TestRail,Jenkins, Amazon S3, Lambda.
Understanding of modern test automation approaches (BDD etc) and how they fit into a continuous delivery and continuous testing model
Must have proven test engineering capability with test scripting in Python experience preferred with good SQL Knowledge.
Manage software testing of both Project changes working closely with related groups such as Technology Delivery Management, Development, Testing, Support and must have solid understanding of test tools and techniques to perform test planning, analysis and test execution (both manual and automated)
Able to manage stakeholder expectations, raise project delivery risks and provide regular status updates.
Good understanding of agile processes, participate in backlog grooming sessions and daily sprint
Support and assist the Quality Assurance and Testing Manager in the management of quality and test assurance activities across all the product teams and contracted support partners
Essential Skills/Experience:
Overall 8+ years’ experience as a Senior QA engineer
4+ years’ experience in data services and cloud based applications
Must have delivered BDD test automation frameworks with data platforms
Good understanding of continuous testing tools such as Jenkins and source code management tools including Git.
Experience of working with global AGILE SCRUM Teams and vendor testing services teams
Strong influencing skills and able to challenge status-quo to deliver best practice solutions
ISEB / ISTQB foundation or above certification.
Experience of Agile methodology and measuring quality metrics for agile teams
Strong communication skills in verbal and written English
Experience in Functional Automation, Regression and Performance.
Experience in ETL Development environment, SAP Hana, SAP ADP, BODS, CMC, Data Intelligence, Hana DB Explorer, Modeler, WebIDE, SAP Information Steward, etc.,
Exposure to Fixed Income, Equities, Sustainable Investments, Securities, Bonds, Index line of business
Self-starter - does what it takes to get the job done
Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment
Experienced, able and keen to work using Agile development methodologies
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
Experience of test management tools e.g.,JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence, TestRail
Experience of CI/CD pipeline and build tools e.g., Jenkins, Maven
Proficient using source code management tools such as Git or GitHub
Familiarity with and/or accreditation in AWS or similar Cloud technology
Education/ Certifications:
A good relevant degree is desirable, but experience and the right approach to work are just as important.
ISEB/ISTQB Certified
Scrum/Agile
Key Behaviour
Strong communication skills and good interpersonal relationship skills and strong team player.
Being able to develop and contribute to the design of solutions.
Being actively involved in all planning sessions and aiding task breakdown and estimation.
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