Quality Assurance Engineer

• Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager and supporting the Banking and Investment squads to release software with a high quality into production through pipelines.
• Work in an agile development team focused on continuous delivery of software in a collaborative environment, contributing to the delivery of high-quality solutions to customers.
• Write, maintain, and execute testing scripts, including Systems Integration and Regression tests
• Collaborate with peers as necessary to continuously improve quality, code, knowledge, infrastructure, methodologies, and skill levels across the team.
• Understand the challenges and opportunities facing the business and show initiative when finding solutions to problems.
• Understand the importance of the agile ceremonies and actively take part in them (e.g. Daily Stand Ups, Backlog refinement, Mob Testing and 3 Amigo Sessions)
• All the usual activities associated with a test engineer role (e.g. defect management, requirement analysis, estimation, test planning)
• ​Be responsible for co-ordinating testing activities for a squad between internal and third-party resources.
• Work with the Quality Assurance manager to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.

• Hold or be studying towards the ISTQB Foundation level in software testing (or local equivalent)
• Have exposure investment management tools (e.g. Pulse Symphony from iress) Desirable
• You will need to be personable, genuine, with a clear interest in technological trends and will need a sense of humour
• A passion for testing, quality, a strong attention to detail and ability to think laterally
• Ideally proven experience (3+ years) in a similar role across multiple projects, offshore and in-house
• ​Experience with modern technology and testing tools; Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Test Management tools (e.g. qTest, Zephyr, x-ray)
• Working knowledge of current development methodologies (Agile / Scrum) with excellent analysis, communication, and documentation abilities
• Confidence to work with and express ideas as part of a collaborative and creative team
• The ability to meet deadlines without compromising quality or functionality
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• The ability to understand how a business functions and to balance testing and quality needs with organisational goals
• ​Commitment to continuous development and continuing education, to stay on top of IT and quality assurance testing trends
• A desire to progress test automation upskilling is a must, however existing knowledge of automation tools is going to be beneficial (e.g. Cypress, Postman, jMeter)

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