Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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