Description
Technical Test Analyst - Trading, Commodities, EnergyWe are supporting a trading and commodities organisation.
This is 6 months initially, with a high likelihood of extension.
This is a hybrid remote role, there will be a requirement to go into the Central London office a few days per week.
The day rate is Outside IR35 and negotiated based on experience.
This role involves manual testing, and some automation testing. You must experience of working with SpecFlow and working in a C# environment.
The Role:
Technical Test Analyst role is responsible for all day-to-day testing of prioritised change delivered through Agile (Scrum)/Kanban with implementation into production every two weeks. The Technical Test Analysts will play a key role in shaping the testing practices and ensuring quality is at the heart of the product, as per the Agile ethos.
Working as an integrated member of the team you will be interfacing with developers, business analysts and the business to ensure development work meets specifications and is delivered to the highest quality within the sprint timelines.
Essential
- Experience of deciding when to automate tests and when to execute them manually.
- Utilising BDD tools such as SpecFlow, Cucumber, FitNesse or similar to evolve a robust automation pack.
- Developing fixtures (step definitions) in C#
- Building continuous integration approaches leveraging reporting tooling
- Previous experience of writing good automated Gherkin scenarios
- Strong SQL capability
- Experience testing Data as a primary QA goal with large data sets
- Data flow and data mapping testing experience
- Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable experience of application testing and familiarity with application life cycle management (ALM) tools such as Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Mingle, Jira, Rally or similar
- Solid working knowledge of Agile methodologies and associated test practices
- Ability to define test techniques and coverage for testing of requirements
- Analytical thinker with strong problem solving skills
- Attention to detail while remaining succinct
Nice to have
- Front Office experience in one of the following:
- Commodities House
- Investment Bank
- Broker
- Exchange
Programming Languages
- C#
CI and Test reporting
- Pickles
- Azure/TFS Build System
Script and Scenarios
- SpecFlow
Automation
- Visual Studio
- WireMock
- Rapid Reporter
- Postman
- Fiddler
- LINQPad
Tools/Technology
- Microsoft SQL Server
- .Net
- SQL
- JSON
- XML