Job Description

Initially, this role will be remote, but will switch to a hybrid working model (Manchester City Centre).

Applicants that are not able to commit to a hybrid working model (In Manchester) need not apply.

A successful candidate will solve interesting technical challenges whilst developing solutions that have a measurable impact to enable automation of server-side components and enable QA efficiencies. The candidate will work closely with developers, automation, and manual QA team members to implement strategies and procedures to deliver high quality test automation solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop common, reusable automation framework, server-side components and services that execute against the automation strategy and drive future improvements.
• Partner with multiple technology and automation teams to understand the flow, evolve automation architecture roadmap and deliver timely solutions to support the automation efforts.
• Evaluate, design, implement and integrate automated testing technologies for backend and component testing and evolve them as the technology changes.
• Develop automated testing strategies that can run in a CI/CD environment
• Set up an integration testing framework with mock endpoints so that apps can be quickly validated.
• Assist in planning, creation and control of test environments and test data.
• Suggest policies and procedures for test code (Unit Tests & Integration Tests)
• Enhance and extend existing test automation frameworks

Qualifications:

Technical:

• Proficiency in Java with demonstrable success in developing high performance, multi-threaded applications.
• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object-orientated programming.
• Proven ability to develop clean, testable code.
• Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Gradle and CI/CD tools, e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity and Urban Code Deploy.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Hands on experience with at least one Unit Testing framework such as JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, etc.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, e.g. Artifactory, Docker and OpenShift.
• Experience with at least one mocking framework such as easyMock or Mockito.
• Hands on experience in design, implementation, and maintenance of server-side automated testing solutions.
• Experience with project management software such as JIRA, Zephyr.
• Experience in BDD testing frameworks like Cucumber or SpecFlow
• Expertise in UI automation using TestComplete (Preferred) or Selenium, WebdriverIO, cypress, playwright
• Experience with automation of Desktop based apps is a plus
• Experience with API automation using Rest Assured, Postman
• Experience with Performance testing tools like JMeter
• Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols preferred.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong passion for technology, especially Java, with a keen interest in driving adoption of new technologies and tools.
• Self-motivated individual and with ability to manage own work slate.
• Excellent collaborative skills; ability to work with others and contribute to global projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-pace environment; flexible and able to deliver results in the required timeframe

Education:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology or similar)

Job Family Group: Technology



Job Family: Technology Quality



Time Type: Full time



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