QA Engineer

Reporting to a senior member of the QA team the QA Engineer will support testing across an agile project within Calastones suite of products or functional areas. The role involves analysing business requirements and technical changes to design and execute effective automated and exploratory tests ensuring critical issues are identified and resolved before release.

The QA Engineer will collaborate closely with Engineering Product Operations and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality applications supported by robust automated regression tests built in C# using a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) approach.

Success in this role requires a strong understanding of Calastones technical environment products and a commitment to continuous learning and quality assurance excellence

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing automated test solutions for functional and regression testing of Calastones software suite using C# and BDD tools.

• Perform functional and regression testing on code and configuration changes.

• Document QA processes and practices and help maintain the QA knowledge base.

• Support integration of automated test solutions into the Continuous Integration pipeline including test execution via GitHub Actions.

• Conduct exploratory testing aligned with Calastones agile approach and QA best practices.

• Collaborate with DevOps Engineering Operations and Client Delivery teams to understand technical changes priorities and testing needs.

• Share knowledge and promote best practices in test automation across the QA team.

• Build a strong understanding of Calastones products and functionality.

• Support senior QA team members in applying Calastones testing standards and automation processes.

• Partner with developers to identify document and resolve defects or unexpected behaviours.

Knowledge & Skills

• Experience testing within financial technology including financial data systems and messaging formats such as XML JSON FIX SFTP and Swift (strongly preferred).

• Understanding of the European Mutual Funds and/or Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) markets (advantageous).

• Strong skills in object-oriented programming ideally C# (preferred) or Java with experience -based automated testing frameworks using BDD tools such as SpecFlow or Reqnroll.

• Proven ability to automate REST API and UI testing using tools like Selenium WebDriver and Playwright (preferred).

• Experience testing event-driven architectures including Azure Service Bus and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) environments (advantageous).

• Knowledge of CI/CD practices with GitHub Actions workflows (YAML) for deployment and testing automation.

• Skilled in writing SQL queries and working with relational databases.

• Familiarity with AI tools such as Copilot LLMs or MCPs to enhance automation efficiency (advantageous).

• Understanding of non-functional testing including performance load and stress testing ideally using NeoLoad.

• Strong grasp of QA automation methodologies agile processes and software testing principles.

• Knowledge of testing techniques such as equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis.

• Proficiency with Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio Azure Word Excel and Windows environments.

• Clear confident communicator able to engage effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• ISTQB Software Testing certification (or equivalent).

Person Specification

• Committed to quality continuous improvement and coding best practices.

• Calm focused and effective under pressure with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Collaborative team member who works well in multidisciplinary agile environments.

• Professional honest and accountable in all interactions.

• Takes ownership follows issues through to root cause and delivers results independently.

• Communicates clearly and confidently both in writing and verbally.

• Adapts quickly to change and embraces innovation in a fast-paced setting.

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