Senior QA Automation Engineer

Project description

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.

Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.
• Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate
• Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
• Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
• Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing
• Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth

Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

SKILLS

Must have

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science).
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with scripting with SQL Python Pytest
• Experience with QE processes and methodologies, automated and manual test processes, test planning, test cases design, scripting, execution, automated test tools, regression testing.
• Experience writing clean, usable, and efficient code.
• Experience interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• AWS cloud testing experience
• Exposure to performance and load testing