
Senior Automation QA Engineer
Role summary
Seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience to design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts within an Agile environment. The role involves driving a shift-left approach to software validation, participating in product design to ensure quality, and monitoring test automation effectiveness. Responsibilities include defining and executing test plans, identifying defects, analyzing results, and collaborating with developers. The ideal candidate will have robust experience with SQL, Python, Pytest, and Zephyr, along with a strong understanding of QE processes and methodologies. Capital Market experience is a plus.
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.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Robust Experience with scripting with SQL Python Pytest, Zephyr
- 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 Skills Description:
Capital Market experience
Languages:
English: C1 Advanced
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