Senior QA Engineer (Core Registry Team)

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer to join our team, within the Managed Funds Administration business,
responsible for our investment management and fund administration applications, used by our operational teams. This is a
key role in enabling the successful execution of our strategy to become an industry-leading Fund Administration service.
You will help establish the technical direction of quality engineering within the business by championing and demonstrating
modern testing principles and practices, promoting a quality first mindset and building and improving automated testing
processes and tools within and outside the team.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to delivering key strategic product and technology roadmap initiatives.
• Create high quality and scalable testing practices and influence others to do the same.
• Design and execute the implementation of a Functional Testing Strategy (manual and automated).
• Contribute to developing and improving Core Registry 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 participate in team’s Discovery and Refinement activities.
• Effectively identify 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 with exploratory testing techniques in fast-moving development teams.
• Demonstrated experience with automation testing frameworks / tools including:
  • End to end test automation with web-based and desktop applications (e.g., VB6/.net application).
  • API testing Postman/SoapUI.
  • BDD Cucumber styled tests.
  • Demonstrated Test automation experience with scripting across the different layers of End-to-End UI automation and Loading
    test.
• 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.

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent industry experience as a Senior QA Automation / Test Engineer).
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in similar role(s).

Key Behaviors:

• Instils Trust – contribute to building a safe learning environment in the business where the team can be listened to and
  understood.
• Collaborate – Must be able to work in a co-operative manner with both internal and external teams and take all views and
  interests into account when formulating outcomes.
• Ensure Accountability – Must take ownership of their assigned responsibilities and the outcomes generated and pursued.
• Customer Focus – Must understand customer and partner needs from both a functional and operational perspective.
• Communicate Effectively – Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in written and verbal forms,
  across all levels of an organization and all sizes of groups. Must also be able to listen to others and evidence that they
  have understood the needs communicated appropriately.
• Continuous Learning & Improvement mindset – Continually seek opportunities for improvement – personal & organizational –
  believe that things can better, have the desire and willingness to set aspiring goals and commitment to see it through to
  completion.