Test Automation Engineer - Web and Mobile
About the role
Daily responsibilities:
- Be an advocate for quality in the project lifecycle.
- Write moderate to complex code/ scripts to test systems.
- Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible, and reusable test automation framework to enable continuous testing in an agile environment.
- Collaborate closely with other team members to develop test approach that effectively covers the functional performance characteristics of features in the applications.
- Collaborate with Delivery Lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
- Report defects and work closely with the team so that solutions can be determined, prioritized, and scheduled.
- Prioritize testing of projects effectively across various businesses, to drive efficient work.
- Conduct root cause analysis of post-production issues and plan to prevent them in future.
- Have in-depth and up-to-date understanding of the organization’s products, applications, systems, environments, processes and tools.
- Introduce and influence overall process improvements and act as an agent for change to the organization.
Must Have Skills:
- 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on and in-depth Test Automation experience - testing on both web and mobile applications.
- 5+ years of Test Automation experience with Java or JavaScript.
- 5+ years of Test Automation experience with frameworks, and utilities (e.g. Selenium WebDriver or WebDriverIO).
- 2+ years’ recent experience with API testing.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Experience within an FI.
- Behaviour driven development (BDD) using Cucumber.
Soft Skills Required:
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence decision making across stakeholders.
- Effective organization, planning, and time management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work as part of a team and encourage both individual and collaborative innovation.
- Positive and resilient personality - Able to embrace feedback and have a desire for continuous iteration and improvement.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred.
About Finance Professionals Inc.
WHO WE ARE
We are a specialist FinTech and Financial Services recruitment consultancy. We have been helping clients attract, hire and retain staff across all areas from technology to finance. By being specialists in our sectors, we are able to use our deep and active network of professionals to quickly match the best people with great permanent and contract job opportunities.
WHAT WE DO:
We deliberately work on a small number of assignments allowing us the time to deeply search for talent for your business. By partnering with an excellent client base including Banks, Financial Services Firms, FinTech companies at various stages and established multinationals, we are able to present compelling career opportunities to industry professionals.
SECTORS WE WORK IN: -FinTech -Infrastructure -Financial Systems -Banking & Securities -Wealth Management & Advisory -Fund Management -Fund Services -Payment Services -Financial Services -Insurance -Real Estate Investment Trusts -Real Estate Development -Construction Finance and Private Equity
SKILLS WE PLACE: -Accounting & Finance -Banking Operations & Middle Office -Risk & Compliance -Fund Accounting -PMO -Business Analysts -IT Manager -Cloud Professionals -DBA -Data Specialists -Design -QA & Testing -Developers
Test Automation Engineer - Web and Mobile
About the role
Daily responsibilities:
- Be an advocate for quality in the project lifecycle.
- Write moderate to complex code/ scripts to test systems.
- Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible, and reusable test automation framework to enable continuous testing in an agile environment.
- Collaborate closely with other team members to develop test approach that effectively covers the functional performance characteristics of features in the applications.
- Collaborate with Delivery Lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
- Report defects and work closely with the team so that solutions can be determined, prioritized, and scheduled.
- Prioritize testing of projects effectively across various businesses, to drive efficient work.
- Conduct root cause analysis of post-production issues and plan to prevent them in future.
- Have in-depth and up-to-date understanding of the organization’s products, applications, systems, environments, processes and tools.
- Introduce and influence overall process improvements and act as an agent for change to the organization.
Must Have Skills:
- 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on and in-depth Test Automation experience - testing on both web and mobile applications.
- 5+ years of Test Automation experience with Java or JavaScript.
- 5+ years of Test Automation experience with frameworks, and utilities (e.g. Selenium WebDriver or WebDriverIO).
- 2+ years’ recent experience with API testing.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Experience within an FI.
- Behaviour driven development (BDD) using Cucumber.
Soft Skills Required:
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence decision making across stakeholders.
- Effective organization, planning, and time management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work as part of a team and encourage both individual and collaborative innovation.
- Positive and resilient personality - Able to embrace feedback and have a desire for continuous iteration and improvement.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred.
About Finance Professionals Inc.
WHO WE ARE
We are a specialist FinTech and Financial Services recruitment consultancy. We have been helping clients attract, hire and retain staff across all areas from technology to finance. By being specialists in our sectors, we are able to use our deep and active network of professionals to quickly match the best people with great permanent and contract job opportunities.
WHAT WE DO:
We deliberately work on a small number of assignments allowing us the time to deeply search for talent for your business. By partnering with an excellent client base including Banks, Financial Services Firms, FinTech companies at various stages and established multinationals, we are able to present compelling career opportunities to industry professionals.
SECTORS WE WORK IN: -FinTech -Infrastructure -Financial Systems -Banking & Securities -Wealth Management & Advisory -Fund Management -Fund Services -Payment Services -Financial Services -Insurance -Real Estate Investment Trusts -Real Estate Development -Construction Finance and Private Equity
SKILLS WE PLACE: -Accounting & Finance -Banking Operations & Middle Office -Risk & Compliance -Fund Accounting -PMO -Business Analysts -IT Manager -Cloud Professionals -DBA -Data Specialists -Design -QA & Testing -Developers