Senior QA Automation Engineer

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.
Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.

Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate

Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.

Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.

Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.

Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing

Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required. 

Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth

Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Skills

Must have

Core Skills:

Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing

Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar)

Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build/release workflows

Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development

SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification

Domain Experience:

Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms is strongly preferred

Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an asset

Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plus

Nice to have

AWS cloud testing experience

Performance and load testing exposure

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior