At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead QA teams and ensure top-notch quality in tech projects for an investment bank.
- Company: Join a diverse and inclusive tech company at the forefront of innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and a vibrant work culture.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities to mentor and grow.
- Why this job: Be part of groundbreaking technology that impacts global trading and critical applications.
- Qualifications: Experience in QA Automation, performance testing, and Agile methodologies required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Must be local to Chester or Bromley. Want to work in technology at an investment bank? We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on QA Application Development; Cyber Data Science and DevOps areas. Join us to work on groundbreaking technology projects, from international trading platforms to critical applications for leading airlines.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the QA and Stability workstream whilst remaining actively involved in day-to-day testing activities.
- Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and regression suites using modern automation tooling.
- Own performance, load, stress, volume and latency testing activities for a high-throughput platform processing millions of emails each month.
- Set up, configure and manage QA, UAT and performance testing environments.
- Define and implement quality gates across CI/CD pipelines.
- Execute hands-on testing of AI-powered classification and workflow automation capabilities.
- Perform root cause analysis of complex defects, performance bottlenecks and stability issues.
- Work closely with Java Developers, DevOps Engineers, Architects and Business Users to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
- Manage test planning, execution, reporting and defect triage activities.
- Drive continuous improvement of automation coverage, testing processes and release quality.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other QA Engineers within the programme.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s in computer science or related field.
- Extensive hands-on experience in QA Automation and Test Engineering within enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with LoadRunner, JMeter or similar enterprise performance testing tools.
- Experience testing distributed systems and high-volume transaction processing platforms.
- Strong SQL and database testing experience.
- Experience working within Agile and DevOps delivery models.
- Experience working within Investment Banking or Global Markets environments.
- Experience testing workflow, task management or case management systems.
- Exposure to AI, Machine Learning or Large Language Model solutions.
- Experience with Oracle, Hadoop and Elasticsearch.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the UK on a full-time basis.
We think you need these skills to ace Quality Assurance Team Manager
QA Automation
Test Engineering
Performance Testing
Load Testing
Stress Testing
Volume Testing
Latency Testing
