Key Responsibilities of the role:
Scheduling and coordinating the release regression executions,
Performing report reconciliations using CATT (Calypso Automated Testing Tool),
Analysing any breaks and allocating them to the relevant SMEs for further investigation,
Ownership and management of the release regression environments,
Enhancing the overall regression execution process and continuously evolving our test coverage,
Ability to clearly articulate any differences from expected behaviour to other team members, users and management if required,
Ensures all quality control tests are carried out accurately and documented in full,
Assists with continuous improvements of the automation process to minimise manual testing efforts,
Develops new tests and tools for our collateral components, APIs and services, test related CI/CD pipelines,
Develop working knowledge of the collateral application stack including tests at all levels -junit, component tests and end-to-end.
Collaborate with the Business users, Scrum leads and the test engineering team to understand how new features should be tested and to contribute to automated tests for these new features.
Track and communicate test results in a timely, effective, and automated manner,
Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile centre of excellence. Actively contribute to our continuous improvement culture.
Skills Required
Experience in Calypso software testing and regression testing is a must,
Knowledge of different phases of testing e.g. SIT, UAT, Regression, Performance, Load,
Previous experience testing using a batch scheduler e.g. Control-M an advantage,
Understanding of test management tools such as JIRA/Zephyr,
Ability to work with engineers to investigate test failures beneficial,
Knowledge in a programming language e.g. Java / Python is an advantage,
Database and SQL skills to write and execute queries,
Ability to manage various stakeholders’ expectations (Business Leads, Technical Leads),
Experience of implementing and testing Back-office and Collateral management solutions,
Preferrable Fixed Income and Repo asset classes and their associated life cycle events,
Expert on standard back-office processing Cash and Security Settlement (Swift), messages (confirmation, advices and statements), Operation (Task Station), Corporate Action, Accounting (General Ledger, P&L Accounting, etc and Collateral Management (GMRA, CSA and Triparty),
Some Experience using tooling such as Jenkins, Bitbucket and Ansible
Workflow, Exception Management & Static Data (SSI, Entities, Contacts, etc.),
Knowledge of Cloud & Container based solution is not a must but will be a differentiator.
Personal Skills
Attention to detail, disciplined and reliable,
Results oriented,
Good analytical skills capacity to think outside the box/get creative to solve issues,
Excellent interpersonal skills / stakeholder management – effectively able to communicate with colleagues in QA, Development, BA teams and Business users,
Proactive, motivated individual, committed to excellence,
Strong Problem Solving / Analytical skills
Team first mentality with the capacity to fit into a multicultural team across a minimum of 4 entities (London, NY, Paris, Bengaluru)
Experience
At least 3-5 years’ experience as a Calypso Test Automation Engineer, in below particular areas:
Significant experience in software testing, preferably in a regression testing,
Experience of latest Calypso versions (v16 and v17),
Experience in CATT Automation Framework will be a differentiator,
Experience in designing and writing test automation scripts,
Techno-Functional experience - preferrable,
Working in agile scrum environments and in an onshore - offshore model,
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electronics / Electrical Engineering, or equivalent,
Good understanding of SDLC software development lifecycle and software testing processes and methodologies,
Advanced or mid-level professional qualification relating to software testing or quality assurance.
Education
Degree level education to grade 2.1 or equivalent.
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