QA Engineer Javascript Automation

About Us:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description:
The QA Analyst is a member of the Agile Team responsible for testing software developed for Capital Markets Equities Products; they apply business requirements and knowledge of software testing lifecycles to guide the testing of complex software products or customer solutions. The QA Analyst contributes through their technical expertise and talent development. They work as a part of a Scrum team using Continuous Integration and Behaviour Driven Development and adopting DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Study requirement specifications and raise clarifications to business analysts and customers.
• Able to document processes and share knowledge (helping to build up the knowledge in LSEG that we are currently dependent on EP for)
• Build, maintain and update test scenarios and test cases based on the requirement specifications.
• Report results of automated and manual tests.
• Troubleshoot issues in automated test scripts.
• Report issues and anomalies in the system in the issue tracking system.
• Communicate any unforeseen issues that's affecting own work to leads on time.
• Provide daily, weekly status updates to leads and managers.
• Act as a lead for the other QA team members.
• Create and build test plans, estimates and improvements to test process.
• Review QA project artefacts including Test scenarios, Test Scripts, Defect reports and Status reports.
• Research into new QA tools methodologies and suggest improvements to the team.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:
Key Behaviour

• Be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where needs evolve rapidly and priorities change
• A passion for learning and innovation is critical
• Employ their multi-faceted skills to create imaginative solutions as well as coaching and nurturing excellence in others.
• Be on the lookout for chances to call your team on to greater things, both individually and as a unit.
• Interested in the evolution of the Equities, FX and Derivatives trading landscape.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum of 5-year hands on experience in Software development life cycle, preferably in testing multi-tiered applications.
• Minimum of 1-year experience on Linux / UNIX environment.
• Minimum of 2-year experience in testing backend applications build on RestAPIs
• Minimum of 2-year experience using SQL
• Experience in reviewing test plans
• Build, maintain and update automated test scripts based on the test cases.
• Experience in designing and writing test automation script using the following technologies:
• Typescript
• JavaScript with Selenium WebDriver
• Mocha and chai frameworks
• Node Js
• Cucumber
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of standard software QA processes and methodologies.
• Ability to grasp technical and domain knowledge quickly is critical.
• High attention to details and strong communication skills with ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to train and mentor junior QA team members.
• Experience in testing applications deployed in cloud (AWS)
• Proficient in using Jira/Confluence
• Practices Agile principles

Nice to have

• Experience in Capital Markets domain.
• Experience using CI tools like Jenkins
• Experience using FIX protocol
• Realtime system experience
• Integration testing with upstream/downstream systems
• External teams (thinking external market teams like Quant house/Vela)

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)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

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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