Engineer, Quality Engineering

Position Summary:We are looking for a hands-on QA Engineer / Senior QA Engineer to join our team and contribute to the OA/MCPM platform. This role involves analyzing performance requirements, designing test scenarios, scripting, and executing test scripts. This is an exciting opportunity for a technically strong candidate with a numerate degree or equivalent to work on dynamic buy-side and sell-side systems undergoing rapid and exciting changes due to the current regulatory environment.

The ideal candidate will have 3-8 years of experience and will be responsible for ensuring the Functional, performance, scalability, and reliability of our software applications. You will work closely with development teams to identify application functionality breaks, performance bottlenecks and provide actionable insights to improve the overall quality of the system including performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create detailed test/performance test plans, including test scenarios, metrics, and expected results.
• Script performance tests for web-based applications and REST APIs where-ever required.
• Design and implement load tests to simulate real-world user traffic using different load patterns incase of managing performance.
• Set up test environments and manage test data.
• Execute performance tests and monitor key metrics like response time, throughput, CPU usage, and memory utilization, as and when required.
• Collaborate with development teams to for application issues/concerns.
• Monitor and report for any discrepancies found.
• Utilize the best possible tools we have internally to ensure productivity.
• Document and communicate test findings and recommendations.
• Work in tight deadlines within a mature time-boxed testing environment.
• Demonstrate consistent and good judgment in assessing the severity of issues.
• Understand multi-tiered technology architecture.
• Test web services-based GUI applications and perform API testing.

Must Have Skills:

• 4-9 years of experience in QA/testing.
• At least 2 years of experience of hands-on experience in test automation using Java/Selenium.
• Ability to understand functional specifications from the customer perspective and design appropriate acceptance tests.
• Thorough understanding of test principles such as unit, smoke, functional (black box/white box), user acceptance, and usability testing.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (OOPS/Design Patterns), Data Structures and Algorithms
• Exposure to structured software development life-cycle methodologies, preferably agile models
• Ability to analyze defects and spot trends
• Experience of working in tight deadlines in a mature time-boxed testing environment
• Be able to demonstrate consistent and good judgement of assessing severity of issues.
• Understanding of multi-tiered technology architecture.
• Experience in Testing Webservices based GUI application and well versed in functional testing.
• Well versed in writing complex SQL queries
• Knowledge of Functional SQL functions

Desirable Skills:

• ISEB certification or equivalent.
• Understanding of performance test principles.
• Knowledge of testing tools like JIRA, qTest, and others.
• Experience of 3+ years as functional testing (3-8 years).
• Ability to support critical releases functionally if required.
• Experience in system/regression testing, ideally in a financial environment with a blend of manual and performance testing.
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience and understanding of the testing process, project test lifecycles, and techniques.
• Commercial awareness and experience with regulations in buy-side and sell-side dealings is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to manage self-workload effectively.
• Complete ownership of the module/component from delivery and quality perspective.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand performance requirements.
• Effectively communicate performance test results and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.