Description
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Successful candidates are expected to:
- Design and execute high-quality test cases based on accurate business requirements analysis.
- Maintain a testing structure to facilitate future additions/amendments and ongoing execution.
- Champion and implement testing automation at every opportunity using best of breed software tools for both Server Side and client-side components.
- Demonstrate effective and accurate test scheduling skills in line with other project deliverables.
- Ensure that testing cycles can be understood by a wide audience, not just by testers.
- Troubleshoot QA environments, diagnosing and resolving issues prior to, and during, formal testing.
- Perform root cause analysis of issues to assist in determining the source of problems.
- Utilise Jira to effectively categorise and track issues raised during the testing cycle.
- Undertake strategic test planning & develop a strategic testing approach for each service in support of the FM eCommerce strategy.
- Identify and analyse strategic testing opportunities and initiatives on a global basis.
Mandatory Qualifications & Skills
Successful candidates must:
- Be SMEs on the testing of eCommerce offerings with proven experience on large scale FX projects.
- Have practical experience in automating the testing of REST APIs programmatically, specifically streaming flows using Server Sent Events (SSE).
- Have extensive experience working within the investment or wholesale banking industries.
- Possess an excellent understanding of FX Pricing and trading.
- Demonstrate experience in System Integration Testing with Trade Processing systems to support STP processes.
- Have a strong track record in automating testing using Python
- Fully understand the FIX API, insofar as it pertains to FX platforms, including Market Data (ESP), Quote (RFQ), Orders, Post-trade, etc
- Have proven and extensive experience in using KDB to both test data feeds and query data
- An understanding of Risk Management.