About Us:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.
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Role Description:
The successful candidate for the TradeAgent Senior Test Engineer role, reporting to the Director of Solution & Delivery for Trade Agent, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG. This exciting opportunity requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivery excellence with excellent logical and technical skills. They will need a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business. They should have a keenness to ensure quality of the platform is at a very high level and can be easily maintained by using modern automation frameworks
Key Responsibilities:
Help deliver and maintain the multiple components of the Trade Agent platform ensuring timely delivery of work items. Willing to take new responsibilities based on projects need and circumstances. Actively guide and help improve engineering excellence withing the program and promote a culture of learning and development. Ensure work is well documented and communicated with various collaborators expectations managed. Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted. Some key responsibilities as below
- Analysing requirements, user stories and business flow diagrams
- Design relevant test cases that provide the proper coverage of the features to be tested
- Design, develop, maintain, and extend automation scripts
- Ability to deliver all levels of testing including manual brute force
- Managing client and stakeholders’ interaction
- Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies
- Apply quality engineering principals throughout the Agile product lifecycle, following a shift-left approach
Candidate Profile / Key Skills:
A good understanding of shift left testing principles. A testing mentality with an ability to grasp complex requirements and ensure quality of a product against functional, non-functional aspects of a product, including security performance, resiliency Automation testing experience in both frontend and backend
Functional Test Framework
- Working experience with Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, JUnit
- Experience in designing and implementing testing frameworks
- Experience with testing REST API services, both manually and automated
- Good knowledge in SQL querying, preferably PostgresSQL
- Experience with Messaging queues, preferably Kafka and IBM MQ
- Knowledge of AWS DevOps pipelines to set up automated builds and enable CI/CD
- Knowledge of GitLab pipelines
- Knowledge of Zephyr integration
- Working with performance test tools i.e., Gatling, JMeter
Optional skills:
- Experience of working with cloud infrastructure and GitLab pipelines
- Ability to set up environment and be able to flex into infra set up tools such as Terraform
- Ability to stand up cloud environments for testing based on provided pipelines
- Ability to write simple Jave applications for tests and test mocks and the ability to package and run it
Agile ways of working:
- You understand and believe in the ethos of agile working.
- You have experience of working in Scrum/Kanban model.
- You can participate and actively collaborate in sprint ceremonies including Product Backlog Refinement
- You have the experience of collaborating with multi-functional teams in scaled agile setups.
Key Behaviours:
- You have demonstrated a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing your partners’ expectations.
- You can demonstrate ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
- You can work well within a team, is able to be helpful and collaborate with each other
- You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
- You can be critical and challenging while maintaining respect.
- You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
- You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
- You have very high standards, especially for quality
- You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies have an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.
Benefits:
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!
We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:
- 25 days’ holiday per year
- 1 additional day off for your Birthday
- Annual wellness allowance
- Share Purchase Plan
- Medical Health Insurance
- Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
- Dental Coverage
- Life insurance
- Pillar 3 Private Pension
- Meal Vouchers
- Flexible Benefits
- Bookster
- Volunteering Events
- All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
