Project Description:

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a qualified investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.

Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders

- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment

- Accelerated exposure and responsibility

- Global career development opportunities

- Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles
- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Responsibilities:

- Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D; partner teams.

- Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate

- Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.

- Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.





- Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.

- Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing

- Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.

- Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth

Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Mandatory Skills Description:

Core Skills:

- Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing

- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar)

- Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build/release workflows

- Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development

- SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification

Domain Experience:

- Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms is strongly preferred

- Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an asset

- Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plus

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- AWS cloud testing experience

- Performance and load testing exposure

Languages:

English: C1 Advanced

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