TradeAgent Senior NFR Quality Engineer

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 successful candidate for the TradeAgent Senior Test Engineer role, reporting to the Director of Solution & Delivery for Trade Agent, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG.  This exciting opportunity requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivery excellence with excellent logical and technical skills. They will need a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business. They should have a keenness to ensure quality of the platform is at a very high level and can be easily maintained by using modern automation frameworks 

Key Responsibilities:

Help deliver and maintain the multiple components of the Trade Agent platform ensuring timely delivery of work items. Willing to take new responsibilities based on projects need and circumstances. Actively guide and help improve engineering excellence withing the program and promote a culture of learning and development. Ensure work is well documented and communicated with various collaborators expectations managed. Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted. Some key responsibilities as below

• Engage with senior business partners, senior technology stakeholders and product owners to understand NFR requirements needs to support product functionality needs.
• Establish, adapt, or optimise test automation frameworks and tools necessary for Performance testing, load/balance, and soak testing.
• Implement automation test performance, soak and load balance working closely with the development scrums.
• Track and report on the tests, providing traceability against requirements.
• Help improve platform level NFR test coverage including performance, resiliency, chaos & SOAK tests.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• A good understanding of shift left testing principles. A testing mentality with an ability to grasp complex requirements and ensure quality of a product against functional, non-functional aspects of a product, including security performance, resiliency Automation testing experience in both frontend and backend
• Experience of working in agile teams and good understanding of agile (esp. scrum) frameworks
• Knowns and builds cucumber testing framework
• Knows to create effective automated tests and to produce reports, illustrations, and test documents.
• Knows the best ways to use performance test tools i.e., Gatling , JMeter
• Understands chaos engineering and develop cases, preferably using AWS Fault Injection Service or another.
• Thinks about security profile testing and knows how to understand and monitor the security profile and alignment to stands for the platform
• Working in an Anthos, Gitlab and Kubernetes echo system
• Strong background in software delivery, ideally in the financial services industry
• Understands product development lifecycle and how to relate this to modern development processes and practices.
• Good experience of using JIRA

The successful candidate will:

• Take a proactive approach to work, handle uncertainty and manage their work without close supervision.
• Drive good practice and ensure the bes