Senior Lead QA Engineer

<h2>ForexClear team delivers strategic and tactical change across the commercial, resilience and regulatory space in an agile manner.</h2><h2>Our new colleague will cover different work streams within ForexClear Quality and will work closely with the respective agile squad and existing Quality team.</h2><h2>The Lead Quality engineer additionally will interact closely with any relevant parts within the organisation including business analysts, development, business operations, risk and support.</h2><h2></h2><h2>The successful candidate will have strong QA &amp; Testing background (both exploratory and automation) with experience of a variety of test design techniques, technologies and have business domain expertise and experience of delivery in sophisticated fast paced environments. Excellent interpersonal skills and time management will be vital in this role. This will be the first QE in the location so will be responsible to own the function locally.</h2><h2></h2><h2>Main Responsibilities</h2><ul><li><h2>Represent and foster Quality function within an agile team.</h2></li><li><h2>Implementing test plans to deliver test phases on time.</h2></li><li><h2>Design efficient functional and non-functional test scenarios and cases ensuring there is traceability back to all business requirements.</h2></li><li><h2>Prepare the testing data.</h2></li><li><h2>Design, creation and improvement of the test automation packs.</h2></li><li><h2>Maintenance and execution of tests, recording of results and undertaking defect retesting.</h2></li><li><h2>Reporting progress and issues clearly and concisely.</h2></li><li><h2>Running test environments.</h2></li><li><h2>Work with the team to resolve issues.</h2></li><li><h2>Work to agreed timescales.</h2></li><li><h2>Identify risks and raise to the project team members.</h2></li><li><h2>Express feedback and implementation where process improvements are suitable.</h2></li><li><h2>Support external testing phases as required.</h2></li></ul><h2></h2><h2></h2><h2>Required Skills</h2><ul><li><h2>Min 5 years  recent experience on QA Java automation – backend</h2></li><li><h2>Degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics</h2></li><li><h2>SDLC methodologies</h2></li><li><h2>Finance or investment bank knowledge/ experience;</h2></li><li><h2>Agile testing delivery</h2></li><li><h2>Test design techniques</h2></li><li><h2>Test execution using GUIs and APIs</h2></li><li><h2>Results Analysis</h2></li><li><h2>Defect Management</h2></li><li><h2> SQL</h2></li></ul><ul><li><h2>Cucumber</h2></li><li><h2>AWS Cloud (or other)</h2></li><li><h2>Git</h2></li></ul><h2></h2><h2></h2><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li><h2>Test automation on Murex</h2></li><li><h2>ISTQB or ISEB Software Testing Qualification</h2></li><li><h2>FpML, FIXML and XML</h2></li><li><h2>Foreign Exchange instruments (NDF, NDO, Option, Forward, Spot)</h2></li></ul><ul><li><h2>Clearing workflows</h2></li><li><h2>Risk management</h2></li><li><h2>Regulatory reporting (incl. CFTC, EMIR, BoE...)</h2></li><li><h2>Clearing and/or investment banking testing (L)</h2></li></ul><ul><li><h2>JIRA</h2></li><li><h2>Zephyr (</h2></li><li><h2>ORQA</h2></li><li><h2>ControlM</h2></li></ul><h2></h2><h2></h2><h2>Benefits</h2><h2>We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!</h2><h2>We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:</h2><ul><li><h2>25 days’ holiday per year</h2></li><li><h2>1 additional day off for your Birthday</h2></li><li><h2>Annual wellness allowance</h2></li><li><h2>Share Purchase Plan</h2></li><li><h2>Medical Health Insurance</h2></li><li><h2>Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)</h2></li><li><h2>Dental Coverage</h2></li><li><h2>Life insurance</h2></li><li><h2>Pillar 3 Private Pension</h2></li><li><h2>Meal Vouchers</h2></li><li><h2>Flexible Benefits</h2></li><li><h2>Bookster</h2></li><li><h2>Volunteering Events</h2></li></ul><p></p><p>LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.</p><p></p><p>Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.</p><p></p><p>Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individual