QA Analyst - Operations [Automation Engineer] in Belfast

About Marex Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Department description The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

Role Summary The QA Automation Engineer proactively assists with the business stream Operations with increasing the quality of the systems they build and maintain. Working with QA, developers and stakeholders, the QA strives to improve system reliability, ensure fulfilment of business requirements, and prevent regression. All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.

Responsibilities

• Test automation: Design, build, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks to reduce manual work.
• Shift-left integration: Collaborate early with developers and product managers to identify risks and define quality standards before writing code.
• CI/CD support: Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and deployment pipelines to provide rapid feedback on each code change.
• Technical Testing: Conduct specialized tests beyond UI checks, including API testing. Proactively investigating into performance/load testing, and database integrity verification.
• Defect management: Involves root-cause analysis to help developers prevent bug recurrence.
• Process governance: Establish and maintain quality standards, documentation, and select appropriate testing tools within the QA team.
• Coaching: QAs and developers on test quality, automation best practices, and testing discipline.
• Requirement Analysis: Reviewing business requirements and user stories to ensure they are clear, complete, and testable.
• Defect management: Find, log, and track bugs using Jira, collaborating with developers to confirm fixes.
• Quality reporting: Preparing reports for stakeholders detailing the software's readiness for release.
• AI: Championed AI-driven quality initiatives by leveraging Generative AI and NLP to automate the conversion of user stories into Playwright scripts, reducing script development time and increasing sprint velocity.

All staff

• Ensure compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times comply with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
• Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor as required.
• Escalate risk events immediately.
• Provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• Maintain a commitment to continuous professional development by acquiring proficiency in emerging tools and frameworks.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
• Attention to detail and a passion for driving up the quality of software.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Senior Level QA Automation Engineer.
• Experienced in the configuration and implementation of a cross section of automated testing approaches and tools; unit, UI, browser, contract/API, performance/load, Playwright, Postman, Swagger etc.
• Experienced in following application(s) all beneficial: JIRA, XRAY, WIKI, Bitbucket cloud, AWS, Splunk, SQL, MongoDB.
• Understanding of software diagnostic tools and testing methods (automation, smoke, functionality, usability, performance, regression, and user acceptance).
• Experience working closely with development teams and championing an automation-first and shift-left approach to quality control.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Agile and scrum development methodologies.

Desirable

• Experienced with testing Post Trade system(s).
• Financial background.

Company Values

• Acting as a role model for the values of the Company: Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
• Integrity - Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
• Collaborative - We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
• Developing our People - Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
• Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.