QA Engineer

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

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 equities to mutual funds and fixed income, master an exciting world of wealth management tools.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: The QA Engineer will plan work for the Functional/automation Testing, Testing work items ,review team’s work output, perform training,and be hands-on automation contributor. S/he will provide testing results /test automation test scripts creation as well as continuous improvement within the software testing discipline. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Primary duties will include: 

• Design, develop, and implement software testing solutions.
• Analyze and recommend test strategies, process improvements and standards.
• Assist in demonstrating developed solutions to business partners and stakeholders.
• Participate in user story refinement with developers and other team members.
• Document test results and communicate to the project team.
• Maintain traceability of test cases to project requirements.
• Develop and execute application performance testing.
• Work towards learning new tools and technology as and when required.

• This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and can be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities that management deems necessary.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need: 

• 5+ years of experience performing manual testing on variety of applications - desktop, web based
• Analyze requirements (business, functional, technical, and design) to create test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures.
• Experience in the overall quality of releases and create/execute test scripts for a wide variety of applications - desktop and web based.
• Technical depth to create and run test scripts that cover a wide variety of scenarios such as smoke, functional, regression, integration, usability and performance testing but not limited to these.
• Working with tools such as JIRA/Azure DevOps, Confluence, Test Rails to log any bugs and test results.
• Perform all aspects of quality assurance during the sprint cycles including test strategies, test case documentation, and test execution.
• Support QA process and activities during software engineering in an agile, scrum team environment, including Story Pointing, Sprint
• Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Identify, evaluate and recommend QA process and activities supporting software engineering in an agile, scrum team environment, including Story Pointing, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Detail-oriented, demonstrated ability to show initiative, good judgment, and resourcefulness.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented, results driven culture.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact across all levels of the organization.
• Work with development teams to establish/maintain test environments, including test data and automation framework.
• Partner with the delivery and support teams to review and understand business requirements, assist with technical implementations, and help to resolve escalated client issues
• Knowledge of quality assurance & QA automation tools and experience of writing unit and other type of tests
• Readiness to learn & adopt new technologies.
• Ability to work with the business analysts, peers and project managers to understand their requirements.

What makes you stand out:  

• Exposure within the Financial services sector
• Previous experience in investment banking, or in the financial industry, or knowledge of finance, investment banking, and/or trading is preferred but not essential
• Experience in software testing stateless platforms (SOAP, RESTful web services or message queue systems).
• Strong knowledge of writing SQL queries, procedures, Database Development tools and concepts.
• Experience with enterprise tools and CI tools such as, Azure pipelines, Git, Jenkins.
• List here your desired/preferred levels of education, experience, skills/competencies, etc.

Education / Certification Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Working environment:

• Hybrid