Test Engineer (SimCorp Dimension)

Project overview

We are looking for an experienced test engineer with strong understanding of automation strategies and a good understanding of the asset management business to join our client on a 12 month contract.

This is a hybrid working role, to be based in City of London 2-3 days per week

Responsibilities

Required Skills:

Technical Skills

• Enable & drive a culture of "Shift-Left" and "Automation-First" in the Agile Delivery Organization especially QA space.
• Collaborating with multiple IT & Business stakeholders at all levels across the bank, including international locations.
• Execute hands-on manual testing (functional, regression, UAT support) and ensure appropriate test coverage where automation is not suitable.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated frameworks and test scripts that are scalable, reusable and robust.
• Development of custom tools and integrate with existing tools to increase test engineering productivity.
• Develop test automation strategies/approaches/plans to deliver efficiencies and productivity improvements via test automation.
• Hands-on with automated testing methods for conducting multi-layer testing of Desktop, Web applications, APIs & Micro services, Database & Data Services, ETL, and Cloud based applications.
• Perform in-sprint automation testing and build a regression test suite.
• Comprehensive analysis of any errors found using logs, database queries, Legacy and Unix file system, etc.
• Expert in complete test and defect management lifecycle across agile methodologies and tools.
• Generate test reports and status to be shared across multiple levels.
• 5+ years of proven development and/or Automation Testing experience, ideally in the finance sector.
• Proven ability to create test strategies and test plans covering both manual and automated test approaches.
• Product (domain) experience with SimCorp Dimension (core accounting platform for Asset Management) is required.
• Strong hands-on experience in end-to-end manual testing including test design, exploratory testing, defect triage, and release sign-off in an Agile environment.
• Good understanding of functional & non-functional testing and automation concepts and patterns (eg availability, scalability, performance and security).
• Strong understanding of Agile Scrum methodologies and DevOps tooling (eg GitLab)
• Knowledge of the Asset Management domain would be a plus
• Hands-on experience on Python/Java Development for Testing. Preferably latest versions Python (3.x.x)/Java (17+)
• Hands-on experience on Python test frameworks like PyTest, PyUnit(Unittest), PySpark. Chispa and pytest-spark would be a plus.
• Hands-on experience on multiple test automation tools/libraries/methodologies (ie TOSCA, Selenium, BDD, Cucumber, UFT, HP ALM, Maven, MS Azure Test Plans, GitLab & MS Visual Studio)
• Hands-on experience with Agile QA practices and BDD approach of testing

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 12 months + ext
• Location: City of London, UK, GB