Associate Software Engineer

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Position summary

DSV is looking for a proactive, self-starting and experienced test engineer to join its operations. This role is ideal for a dynamic and pioneering Software QA engineer who is comfortable with both producing efficient and reliable test automation and completing detailed manual functional verification of complicated financial applications.

As an innovative product in a fast-moving industry, the position requires the ability to work very closely with the business group, to understand their requirements and to recognize importance of flexibility.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to create test automation and frameworks for both user interfaces and APIs. To this end the candidate must be highly technical and have an excellent understanding of cutting-edge test automation techniques.

Duties & accountabilities

• Work from product documentation as well as through collaboration with team members in different geographic locations to create and maintain test cases and scripts to required quality levels.
• Build successful relationships with Product owners, Development managers, the Client and other IT teams to deliver effective test outcomes.
• Liaise with the product test managers and test stakeholders to plan and prioritize tasks in a timely and transparent manner.
• Report on daily progress of tasks and escalate issues effecting timeliness of completing testing tasks
• Develop test automation to high coding standards set within the QA group
• Reuse, maintain and extend central QA automation frameworks and utilities
• After liaising with technical leads on design and tools produce new test frameworks and tests for assigned projects

Business competencies

Education and experience

• University graduate or equivalent, in a computing or numerate discipline degree.
• 2-3 years or more Quality Assurance Software Testing experience
• 2 years or more writing test automation/tools in a programming language (JavaScript, Python, C#, JAVA).
• 1 year or more writing and maintaining test automation/tools in JAVA.
• Demonstrable high-quality test experience in a financial environment.
• Experience of working with Agile, Test Driven Development and Business Driven Development software development processes
• Extensive experience in Test Automation using Test Tools/Frameworks for example: Cucumber, Concordion, Fitnesse, Selenium, TestNG, jUnit
• Good working knowledge of Cloud Implementation and understanding of AWS, Containerization , Openshift, Kibana and Elastic Search would be desirable.

Commercial awareness

• Knowledge and experience of financial markets, specifically in market data is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to work in a globally distributed software development team
• Formal education or any recognized certifications in Finance is desirable

Personal competencies

Personal impact

• Demonstrate a passion for testing, show drive to take initiative and follow through tasks to completion at a high-quality level, whilst consistently seeking to improve practices and processes.
• Passion for quality assurance and attention to detail
• Strong desire to learn new technologies, methods and tools
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities

Communication

• Ability to communicate at all levels including daily team meetings, represent QA in meetings with the team, with other teams and presenting to management.
• Ability to partner closely with development teams in fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Teamwork

• The ability to forge strong partnerships with key members of product and technology teams.
• Willingness to be flexible and adapt to project priorities and processes and ability to meet deadlines.