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