At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive quality assurance in Agile teams, ensuring high-quality software delivery.
- Company: World-leading provider of market infrastructure in financial services.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, benefits package, and influence over test strategy.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with global reach and career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a tech-led company and make a real impact on quality standards.
- Qualifications: Extensive QA automation experience and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
A world-leading provider of market infrastructure within financial services, operating at genuine scale with a strong reputation for technology-led delivery.
A Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who will be a key advocate for quality within an Agile team, driving BDD and TDD practices to ensure high-quality, business-aligned outcomes. Working closely with Product Owners and Developers, you will provide in-sprint QA aligned to the team's Definition of Done, ensuring deployable software at the end of every sprint. You will lead on test strategy, balancing manual, automated and performance testing, with a strong emphasis on shift-left methodology and API-first automation, while contributing to the evolution of scalable, robust test frameworks.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Collaborate with global BA, Development and QA teams to design and coordinate effective test strategies
- Design, develop, execute and maintain automated and functional tests within CI/CD pipelines
- Leverage AI tools to optimise testing efficiency and workflows
- Develop and maintain scalable, self-healing automation frameworks
- Integrate AI-driven tooling into automation workflows to improve script creation and maintenance
- Identify performance bottlenecks and provide actionable recommendations
- Champion quality across the Agile team, promoting best practice including unit testing and code reviews
- Mentor and coach team members to elevate QA standards
- Take ownership of deliverables, managing priorities effectively and raising risks early
- Drive clear communication on progress, risks and impediments
You Will Bring:
- Extensive QA automation experience within Agile environments
- Strong automation experience using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or TestComplete
- Proficiency in Java, JavaScript and TypeScript
- Proven ability to design and maintain scalable automation frameworks (Playwright/WebDriverIO preferred)
- Experience integrating automation within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, TeamCity)
- Hands-on experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber
- Experience using AI tools to design and optimise test automation
- Strong experience in API, functional and end-to-end testing
- Experience defining acceptance criteria and aligning testing to business requirements
- Working knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, load, stress; tools such as K6 or JMeter)
- Strong understanding of SDLC and quality engineering principles
- Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments with distributed teams
- Ability to identify risks, challenge design decisions and influence quality outcomes
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Highly organised, detail-oriented and delivery-focused
Desirable: experience within financial services or trading platforms (including FIX/API), knowledge of trade lifecycle and broker/trader platforms, exposure to AWS/microservices/serverless, formal testing qualifications such as ISTQB, and TDD/BDD design exposure.
What's On Offer:
- Competitive salary plus benefits package
- The opportunity to work within a world-leading, technology-led financial services organisation
- Genuine influence over test strategy, tooling and quality standards
- A collaborative Agile environment with global reach
Senior QA Engineer employer: MCS Group
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