Test Automation Lead - Investment banking products

• Understanding of use case base test scenarios, review product requirements
• Estimate all testing activities and deep knowledge on QA methodologies and tools
• Understand functional and design specifications to determine and prepare automated test scripts and maintain test case suite
• Prepare reusable and scalable test automation framework
• Communicate application / product progress to senior leadership on regular basis
• To participate in functional as well as technical discussions with the client and team.
• Work closely with product owners and business analyst to ensure acceptance criteria are accurately captured and share feedback as needed.
• Develop test strategies, plans, and maintain test data
• Develop and continuously improve automated tests as new system features and enhancements are developed
• Execute automated tests and manage the resulting defect log through the point of defect fix validation
• Ensure the appropriate test environments and infrastructures are in place and kept up to date
• Identify and report to product teams questionable functions, performance concerns, and inconsistencies

• Functional:
• Good understanding of investment banking products such as fixed income, equities, derivatives (futures & options), FX.
• Basic knowledge of financing risk, underwriting, forecasting, portfolio analytics and monitoring
• Experience with electronic trading platforms & ECNs (e.g. Bloomberg). Technical:
• 9+ years of relevant working experience
• Strong knowledge of Java programming language
• Candidate should be hands-on with coding in current role.
• Possess excellent communication skills to facilitate accurate and efficient communication across globally distributed development and test teams.
• Experience in Selenium, Rest Assured and at least one performance testing tool (preferably Load runner)
• Experience in BDD framework design with tools such as Cucumber
• Should have deep understanding of websockets, gRPC & Protobuf
• Be SMEs on the testing and proven experience on large scale FM projects.
• Possess proven UNIX and SQL and No-SQL skills.

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