Test Engineer

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Job description

JOB SCOPE

The Derivatives Pricing team is responsible for cross-product transactional pricing of derivatives within Standard Chartered. The development team is driven to provide world class technology to support the bank's Financial Markets business. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial markets' domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.

Position: Test Analyst

Job Description:

We are seeking an energetic, talented and motivated individual for the role of hands-on Test Engineer on an ongoing Front office Green field project. The job entails testing of a Front Office trading application using the modern technology stack and integrating it with the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing.

• Completely own an entire stream of testing including test planning, execution, automation, recording and reporting, stakeholder engagement
• Build the functional test plan and strategy for a high volume and low latency application.
• Analyse the change requirements, assess impact, come up with test strategy & plan, generate & execute test cases.
• Developing automated test scripts for a strategic application using inhouse automated testing tool and Java.
• Work closely with the application development and dev-ops to improve performance, scalability and resiliency of the system.
• Development of common tools and utilities in Java to capture more detailed metrics from the system logs.

Primary Skills

• 10+ years of experience in designing, developing and executing the functional & automated testing scripts for a large scale, high volume, low latency enterprise applications.
• Knowledge and Application experience of programming concepts in Java technology stack required.
• Strong understanding in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and related tooling like Cucumber, Selenium
• Strong understanding of FX pricing, trade lifecycle and risk management
• Good understanding of Micro-Services Architecture.
• Good understanding of Rest APIs and Web Sockets based communication.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex software development/design issues using clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
• Must possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of QA and testing standards, methodologies, tools and processes
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly
• Analytical Skill: Candidate should have good analytical skills

Secondary Skills

• Experience working with Banking Front Office applications.
• Good understanding of asynchronous messaging systems like kafka, solace, MQ or similar.
• Knowledge of QA and testing standards, methodologies, tools and processes
• Working understanding of Dockers, Kubernetes and other deployment and infrastructure as code technologies
• Ability to succeed in high energy, dynamic environment
• Self-driven, good communication skills