QA Engineer (Backend Test Engineer) - Rates e-Trading QA – Manchester – (Hybrid)

25828766 QA Engineer (Backend Test Engineer) – Rates e-Trading – Manchester – (Hybrid)

Initially, this role will be remote, but will switch to Hybrid working once the new office is Open (city-centre).

Therefore applicants who are not able to commit to a hybrid working model (3 days onsite in the Manchester office) need not apply.

Overview

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

What We do / The Team

Citi is one of the top global dealers on the street in Fixed Income. We are key players as an end-to-end Tester in the Global Fixed Income Electronic Trading team. Our goal is to gain strong business knowledge to manually perform functional and non-functional testing, design test suites, and develop automation strategies for trading applications, delivering quality products as a strong QA team. Our team is primarily based out of Mississauga (Canada), Manchester (UK), and Shanghai (China) and works with global Dev teams. Our projects are fast-paced, business-critical, and focus on regulatory requirements.

Role Overview/What will you do:

• Identify and recommend requirements for STLC through analysis on the impacted area.
• Design, develop, execute test cases and scripts.
• Develop Test plans, Test Strategy, and Estimations for Quality Engineering projects.
• Play a key role in Functional and Automation test case development, execution, test script maintenance, and defect tracking approach.
• Collaborate with different project stakeholders to help define and document testing requirements and scope.
• Collaborate closely with global BA, DEV & QA Teams for efficient test planning, test design, and coordinate test efforts between global teams.

Key Skills and Experience required

Essential Technical skills

• Proven QA Testing experience on Systems/Applications written in Java Core Java/Python.
• GIT, Bitbucket, JIRA, or similar project management tools.
• Cucumber-based Automation Testing, Server Side Automation/Manual Testing, API Automation, Swagger, Microservice testing.
• SQL, NoSQL Databases (Oracle, MongoDB).

Added | Essential skills

• Proven experience working in a SCRUM or Agile engineering environment.
• Experience in developing Test Strategy, Test Plan, and performing Functional and Non-Functional Testing.
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining Automated Testing Framework for Backend applications and database testing.
• Document all details and findings and perform preliminary root cause analyses to provide recommended improvements for issues/bugs identified.
• Ensure all corrective actions are assigned, documented, and completed.
• Ensure project standards and procedures exist, are clearly documented, and followed throughout the software development life cycle; make recommendations for enhanced documentation.
• Gather, maintain, and create reports on quality metrics.
• Good to have programming/scripting experience using various languages such as Java/Python, RUST, etc.
• Good to have experience in working CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in Performance testing and performance engineering.
• Nice to have previous development or performance testing experience.

Bonus points for

Experience with a Financial Service industry background working on Trading platforms (Pre & Post Trade Systems).

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
• A discretional annual performance-related bonus.
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Pension Plan.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.
• Access to an array of learning and development resources.

Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Technology Quality

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Time Type:

Full time

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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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