QA Engineer

Connecting clients to markets and talent to opportunity

With 4300 employees and over 400000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents were a Fortune-100 Nasdaq-listed provider connecting clients to the global markets focusing on innovation human connection and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

At StoneX we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies organizations and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member youll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms comprehensive clearing and execution services personalized high-touch support and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

Retail: Empower individual investors and yourself in the world of retail through a range of different financial products rooted in innovation and market intelligence. From equities to mutual funds and fixed income master an exciting world of wealth management tools.

Position Purpose: The QA Engineer will plan work for the Functional/automation Testing Testing work items review teams work output perform trainingand be hands-on automation contributor. S/he will provide testing results /test automation test scripts creation as well as continuous improvement within the software testing discipline. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach exhibiting excellent analytical problem solving organizational and interpersonal skills.

Primary duties will include:

• Design develop and implement software testing solutions.
• Analyze and recommend test strategies process improvements and standards.
• Assist in demonstrating developed solutions to business partners and stakeholders.
• Participate in user story refinement with developers and other team members.
• Document test results and communicate to the project team.
• Maintain traceability of test cases to project requirements.
• Develop and execute application performance testing.
• Work towards learning new tools and technology as and when required.

• This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and can be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities that management deems necessary.

To land this role you will need:

• 5 years of experience performing manual testing on variety of applications - desktop web based
• Analyze requirements (business functional technical and design) to create test plans scenarios scripts or procedures.
• Experience in the overall quality of releases and create/execute test scripts for a wide variety of applications - desktop and web based.
• Technical depth to create and run test scripts that cover a wide variety of scenarios such as smoke functional regression integration usability and performance testing but not limited to these.
• Working with tools such as JIRA/Azure DevOps Confluence Test Rails to log any bugs and test results.
• Perform all aspects of quality assurance during the sprint cycles including test strategies test case documentation and test execution.
• Support QA process and activities during software engineering in an agile scrum team environment including Story Pointing Sprint
• Planning Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Identify evaluate and recommend QA process and activities supporting software engineering in an agile scrum team environment including Story Pointing Sprint Planning Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Detail-oriented demonstrated ability to show initiative good judgment and resourcefulness.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented results driven culture.
• Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact across all levels of the organization.
• Work with development teams to establish/maintain test environments including test data and automation framework.
• Partner with the delivery and support teams to review and understand business requirements assist with technical implementations and help to resolve escalated client issues
• Knowledge of quality assurance & QA automation tools and experience of writing unit and other type of tests
• Readiness to learn & adopt new technologies.
• Ability to work with the business analysts peers and project managers to understand their requirements.

What makes you stand out:

• Exposure within the Financial services sector
• Previous experience in investment banking or in the financial industry or knowledge of finance investment banking and/or trading is preferred but not essential
• Experience in software testing stateless platforms (SOAP RESTful web services or message queue systems).
• Strong knowledge of writing SQL queries procedures Database Development tools and concepts.
• Experience with enterprise tools and CI tools such as Azure pipelines Git Jenkins.
• List here your desired/preferred levels of education experience skills/competencies etc.

Education / Certification Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Information Science / Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Working environment:

• Hybrid