Senior QA Automation Engineer (Java/Python)

Role Overview:

The DataScope suite of applications is part of our Pricing and Reference Service business. It is a respected application used in the wider finance industry where clients can download both market data in bulk form or in customized reports. The application has 4k+ external clients who consume financial data to analyse funds and the market position of global industry players.

In this role, you'll be joining our Enterprise Data Solutions as a Senior QA Automation Engineer: serving the entire spectrum of data needs across asset classes, latency and delivery mechanisms including real-time data and news, reference and legal entity data.

Responsibilities:

• Develops knowledge and understanding of technologies in LSEG and utilises these in their own scope of work, to create a network within the company
• Liaise with Project Management and other stakeholders, to ensure correct reporting of work to business stakeholders
• Present and communicate effectively to all levels of the organisation including technical and non-technical audiences, leadership, and management
• Provide leadership and clear guidance, based on evaluation of development of tools and frameworks and best industry practise, for the automation of testing of Cloud-based applications
• Understands LSEG's commercial position in the market and how our products and services fits into the company's strategic direction
• Promotes services and customer focus culture within team
• Design, develop, review and implement integration, system, acceptance and end-to-end test strategies
• Assess and report on software risk and release readiness
• Collaborate with QA Teams in Beijing to make sure the same testing strategy, automation solutions, frameworks and toolset are used.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years in Quality Assurance / Software Development / Test Development.
• Very proficient in at least one programming or scripting language - Eg: Python, Java
• Proficient in automation frameworks and understand the technical details of different types of testing frameworks including: Module-based, Library Architecture, Data Driven, Hybrid, Behaviour Driven etc.
• Experienced with Linux and at least one RDMS like MySQL/Oracle/SQLServer/Sybase etc.
• At least proficient on one automation frameworks like: JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, Selenium, JMeter etc.
• Experienced in building End-to-end automation included test automation management, test execution and test reporting for SFTP and Database solutions
• Very proficient in analyse software and quality requirements and document test plans
• Very proficient in design, develop, review and implement integration, system, acceptance and end-to-end test strategies
• Experienced with automation and manual testing for multi-tier, on prem and cloud based integrated solutions
• Experience with build and test integration tooling including Jenkins, GitLab
• Familiar with Agile methodology and have a good sense of quality ownership and risk assessment
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills and excellent communication ability
• Experience and the ability to thrive in a cross-cultural / multiple time zone work environment
• Flexibility with working hours to accommodate multiple time zone work environment (for example adjusting work day hours slightly to be available for meetings with employees in another time zone)
• Capable of motivating and energizing others, as well as gaining their respect, both within immediate and external teams
• Passionate about new knowledge
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Honest, open, passionate, positive "can-do" attitude, self-sufficient
• Ability to rapidly absorb new concepts - either technological, or industry related
• Ability to establish external/internal resources to aid the team in reaching its goals
• 3+ years experience of test project management.

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent knowledge on large data, near-realtime systems
• Experience as a test project owner
• Experienced in implementation of automation in Cloud based Projects AWS/Azure experience
• Experienced in Analytic Tools like Tableau, PowerBI
• Understanding of financial markets, experience testing financial software
• Experience with financial market data.

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

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.

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