Position: QA Automation Engineer - work only from Poland
Company: Luxoft
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Project Description:
The Risk Technology team is responsible for designing, integrating and supporting Middle Office Risk systems in the organization
using the third party Markit Financial Risk Analytics (FRA) simulation and pricing engine that provides cross-asset coverage to calculate various market and counterparty credit risk measures.

An in house .NET based application layer integrates the FRA into the Client's proprietary systems.

Risk Technology has evolved rapidly over the last few years as new regulation and industry change is being introduced post the financial crisis.

Alongside regulatory projects like FRTB the organization is seeking to consolidate systems across the globe to improve efficiencies, help standardize our products and strengthen our brand.

This will include efforts to adopt cloud and other new forms of digital technology.

The role is within the Risk Technology working on the QA team. The team work closely with Risk Developers, Risk BAU, QA Automation and Change Management.

The ideal candidate would have prior experience working in an investment bank and would, have experience in a Manual Tester or Dev Ops role and a proven track record of delivering as part of a project team and utilizing test automation tools and software such as SQL.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to project testing strategies and policies.
- Liase with business stakeholders and technology teams with respect to testing and QA.
- Co-ordinate test runs against test plans and liase to ensure systems are ready for promotion to UAT .
- Write, review and create test packs
- Produce and complete all required testing documentation and capture all evidence in accordance with InfoSec and Audit Policies.
- Clear and regular communication with the wider QA and Risk teams on project process. Timely raising of defects and testing delays.
- Provide technical support to BAU for run books and release go lives.
- Providing user support, including responding to user queries and supplying resolutions and fixes to issues.
- Liaise with users in the Risk Management and other related areas to confirm requirements.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- 8-10 years experience in QA automation
- ISTBQ certification or equivalent.
- Extensive Java/Javascript and maintaining websites
- SQL
- Confluence, JIRA, HPQC, TestRail, Putty.
- Design methodologies and best practices.
- End to end software lifecycle knowledge.
- Experience of working in an investment banking technology environment.
- Planning and prioritization skills.
- Have a "can do" attitude with flexibility to adapt.
- Good communication skills, and the ability to simplify technical jargon into business speech.
- Experience of presenting to all levels of management and across different departments.
- Proven track record of delivering to Risk/Middle Office/Front Office.
- Should carry an analytical mind-set.
- Provide cross-functional training and support for other members of the team to ensure that objectives of the team are met.
- Agile and flexible approach to delivery.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to ensure clarity of communication to users and Technology colleagues.
- Prioritize and structure own workload according to delivery requirements.
- A fast learner with the ability to understand, retain and apply new information quickly.