Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to delivering key strategic product and technology roadmap initiatives.
• Create high quality and scalable software and influence others to do the same.
• Design and execute the implementation of a Digital Testing Strategy
• Contribute to developing and improving team’s - quality- engineering standards and frameworks and proactively share knowledge
• Pioneer innovative approaches to further improve the quality of our software products
• Deeply care about Customer problems and technical excellence
• Proactively participates in team’s Discovery and Refinement activities
• Effectively identifies opportunities to remove waste and automate manual processes.

Role Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering
• Actively contribute to automated testing - from unit to integration to user-interface testing - in order to improve our automated testing tools, frameworks and test coverage.
• Identify areas where automated testing is too expensive and come up with test strategy to address any potential gaps through means of other testing techniques
• Contribute to user stories and design of features in order to improve quality of our products
• Collaboratively work on ensuring software fails-fast, from code analysis to builds etc.
• Champion quality - share your knowledge, mentor and coach others in analysis, testing and quality practices to building quality in
• Delivery
• Familiar with Agile / Lean ways of working, and how to deliver value to customers faster and more efficiently.
• Drives and contributes to Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Product
• Shows curiosity about the problem-space, asks great questions to create more clarity.
• Demonstrates stakeholder empathy.
• Deep thinker that challenges answers that do not make sense, relating to the status quo or a change
• People
• Collaborative problem-solving skills
• Seeks feedback from others, to learn and to mentor
• Growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team

Skills and Competencies:

• Experience working within the financial services industry or equivalent complex domains.
• Experience testing Web Based Applications, Web services, XML, GUI, Reports and databases utilising a wide range of test tools
• Experience and/or accreditation in technologies including.
• Platforms : Windows, Solaris
• Application Server : Apache TomEE
• Reporting : Crystal Reports
• Database : Oracle, SQL server
• Other : Web Services, XML, Git/Subversion Repositories
• Experience in working individually and in team environments
• Proven expertise in problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience in working to tight deadlines and delivering to agreed timetables
• Have a fundamental understanding of test techniques as well as exposure to automation testing and frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal to ensure clear definition of test plans, test cases and defects for all stakeholders such as developers, support and clients
• Solid understanding of the full SDLC (Problem to Solution)
• Experience in utilizing Continuous Delivery concepts to deliver software into Production environments.
• Proven experience defining Testing Strategy for engineering teams