About the Company
We're looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a major financial services organisation delivering critical technology change across a complex enterprise environment.
About the Role
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in Agile teams, enjoys owning test strategy and approach, and has a passion for automation and quality engineering.
Responsibilities
- Reviewing business requirements, functional specifications and technical designs to create high quality test scenarios and test cases.
- Defining, documenting and presenting Test Strategies and Test Approaches to stakeholders.
- Executing both manual and automated testing across multiple workstreams.
- Designing and maintaining automation frameworks and regression test suites.
- Managing defects through the full lifecycle, including investigation, triage and resolution support.
- Working closely with developers, business analysts, product owners and release teams.
- Providing regular status updates and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Reviewing and assuring the quality of testing artefacts produced across the team.
- Supporting Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives.
- Collaborating with teams across onshore and offshore locations.
Qualifications
Essential Skills & Experience
Proven experience working as a Quality Engineer, QA Engineer, SDET or Test Automation Engineer.
Strong background working within Agile delivery environments.
Experience creating and owning Test Strategies and Test Approaches.
Financial Services experience.
Strong SQL skills.
Solid automation experience using:
Selenium
Java
UFT
Playwright
Experience testing APIs and integration services.
Strong defect management and root cause analysis capabilities.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience working with Azure DevOps and/or ALM.
ISTQB or ISEB Foundation Certification.
Required Skills
Technical Knowledge
Any of the following would be highly beneficial:
SWIFT Messaging
ISO15022 / ISO20022
CREST
Capital Markets
Securities Settlement
Financial Messaging Platforms
Unix / Linux
Kafka
OpenShift
BDD / TDD practices
Preferred Skills
An engineering mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
The confidence to challenge existing approaches and propose better solutions.
A collaborative approach and ability to work across multiple teams.
A passion for delivering high-quality software in fast-paced environments.
If you're an experienced Quality Engineer with strong automation skills and financial services experience, we'd love to hear from you.