Lead Test Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Lead Test Engineer is responsible for independently leading Test Engineering teams.

You will be responsible for developing test plans and implementing those plans against the corresponding test procedures.

You will be accountable for the development release and maintenance of test procedures.

You will be a part of the ETE team The Enterprise Test Engineering (ETE) family is responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems meet defined quality standards.

The ETE family encompasses three major areas including (a) functional testing (b) nonfunctional testing and (c) test architecture and enablement.

Other key focuses include regression testing browser testing performance testing capacity and stress testing resiliency testing environment management services and infrastructure testing.

Develops conducts and evaluates testing processes working closely with developers to remediate identified system defects.

Indepth knowledge of automated testing tools and quality control and assurance approaches including the creation of reusable foundational test automation framework for the entire organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for system integration testing including automation of newly developed or enhanced applications.

Responsible for reviewing requirements and design artifacts developing unit integration and system test cases ensuring extensive test coverage for our cloud application.

Play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables.

Advanced java / Selenium development skills with significant experience applying those skills in test environments.

Lead develop and advise on test automation strategies and provide critical feedback in requirements design implementation and execution phases.

Expert and hands on automation at all software layers (e.g. UI services APIs etc.) as well as CI/CD technologies (e.g. Cloudbees Jenkins Cucumber Git JUnit Jira etc.).

Develop and improve next generation Test Engineering Automation solutions in a Continuous Integration environment.

Experienced in an Agile/DevOps environment in collaboration with BAs product owners and application developers.

Define design development documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and next gen Software Platforms/Frameworks as part of an Agile team.

Partner with different stake holders Product Management Application Development DevOps and other technical teams.

Contributes to the Automation development of endtoend regression.

Works closely with business and AD domain experts to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for assigned applications/systems.

Experienced in mentoring more junior Test engineers verifying work products and providing guidance as needed.

Capable of working on multiple work streams concurrently in a fastpaced environment

Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills with confidence representing QA principles within agile teams.

API testing Python and AWS experience in a plus

Requires a functional understanding of distributed and/or mainframe test environments.

Responsible for Project Coordination and Technical Management tasks

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelors degree and/or equivalent experience preferred.

Minimum of 57 years of experience with automated unit and integration testing

Experienced in Agile/Waterfall onsite/offshore work model and coordination.

In depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle (specifically the testing model methodology and processes)

Experience with Test Engineering methodologies and Test Automation Frameworks

Extensive experience with testing modern scripting languagebased components.

Experience with frontend & backend testing.

Experience in writing sophisticated SQL queries.

Experience with JIRA Microfocus ALM Bitbucket Git and Jenkins

Experience with test data management is a plus.

Detailed understanding of smoke testing blackbox and nonblack box testing as well as regression testing

Experience in estimating prioritizing and planning testing activities.

Requires the ability to work well with both business clients and technical team and the ability to work independently both individually and as part of a team.

ABOUT: With 50 years of experience CLIENT is the premier posttrade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world CLIENT through its subsidiaries automates centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions mitigating risk increasing transparency enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed the firm innovates purposefully simplifying the complexities of clearing settlement asset servicing transaction processing trade reporting and data services across asset classes and bringing increased security enhanced resilience and soundness to financial markets. In 2022 CLIENTs subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. .5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. trillion. CLIENTs Global Trade Repository service through locally registered licensed or approved trade repositories processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually.

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