StoneX - Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer - Application Testing

Business Segment Overview :

Retail : Empower individual investors and yourself in the world of retail through a range of different financial products rooted in innovation and market intelligence.

From FX and CFDs to precious metals, master an exciting world of wealth management tools.

Job Purpose and Responsibilities :

Position Purpose :

The MetaTrader team looks after the integration with Meta Quotes platform to provide full trading functionality, as well as an additional distributed system based on Windows Services that communicate via message broker systems.

The solution relies heavily on multi-threading and low-latency communication.

As a Senior QA Team member, you will be responsible for end to end testing of all MT services/components.

Technology Ecosystem : Birds eye view of the technology one will be exposed to in role.

Front-End : C++

Back End : C++, C#, .NET, SpecFlow, Gherkin, REST

Architect : N/A

Cloud : N/A

Primary duties will include :

- Liaise with the business/developers/BAs at concept stage to determine testing strategy and coverage

- Determine if the software will perform according to the user request and conform to guidelines

- Assess the impact and risks of new functionality introduced into the system

- Actively participate in sprint planning sessions and ensure requirements are clear and complete

- Provide accurate estimation for sprint planning

- Create test cases, BDD specifications and data (manual and automated)

- Ensure that adequate test coverage is provided

- Participate in team stand ups

- Actively implement Test Automation where possible

- Understand and maintain the existing test automation suite where required

- Execute test scripts and analyze and record results

- Identify defects/anomalies and investigate their cause.

- Document and track these defects.

- Recommend improvements or corrections to developers or system analysts

- Review logs and reports to identify program processing errors and possible improvements

- Document high level user guides and train others in new functionality areas or software tools

- Monitor multiple projects/software changes from concept to release and confirm correct behavior after release to live

- Understand and adhere to the StoneX Change Request process

- Be responsible for all phases of testing across various test environments

- Coordinate with Service Delivery teams to ensure the timely and correct release of software to live

- Contribute towards improving the QA process and quality standards across the organization

- Evaluate testing tools and software that can be implemented to aid QA and maximize testing coverage

- Be an active participant in sprint retrospectives and take any actions forward for continual improvement on the teams ability to deliver

- Actively participate in knowledge sharing and team building exercises and be a champion of knowledge sharing

Qualifications :

To land this role you will need :

- Minimum years of experience, type of experience, etc (including supervisory experience if applicable)

- Include must have hard skills

- Include must have soft skills

- Include other skills (and the level) that is minimally required

What makes you stand out :

- Relevant degree or equivalent training

- Good knowledge of the software development lifecycle

- Good knowledge of QA practices and processes

- Experience of testing web and client-server applications

- Experience working in an Agile environment and BDD/ATDD

- Experience in testing financial applications especially Trading platforms and services and reporting solutions

- Experience in testing RESTful, SOAP, messaging services

- Experience working in all phases of software testing right from requirements analysis up until QA/UAT sign off and release to live

- Basic SQL skills

- Experience in building, deploying and releasing software by working with developers

- Experience working with version control, build & deployment and test management tools, preferably Git, TeamCity, Jira, TestRail

- Experience in debugging software

- Experience in reviewing application code

- Experience in building tools and utilities for automating testing tasks

- Strong in Programming fundamentals and ability to program in at least one programming language (preferably C#) would be beneficial

- Experience in test automation using a BDD tool

- Good business/ financial knowledge especially Trading CFDs, spread betting and Forex would be helpful

Working environment :

- Hybrid/In-office/Remote

- Travel Requirements (if applicable)