QA Test Automation Analyst - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Initially, this role will be remote, but will likely to switch to a hybrid working model (Manchester City Centre).

Applicants that are not able to commit to a hybrid working model (In Manchester) need not apply.

Who we are

Company Background:

CITIGROUP is one of the largest players in the financial industry, employing more than 200,000 people across the globe.

Global Markets deals with clients and investors who wish to trade in the international markets of FX, Equities, Interest Rates, Bonds, Commodities and Credit derivatives.

What our Team does

Commodities Technology:

Our Commodities technology team comprises some 350 people across London, Houston, India & Singapore. Our IT teams are organised to support the key business operations of Pricing, Risk Management, Trade Lifecycle, Electronic Trading, Market Data and DataAnalytics.
There is a strong.

NET focus within Commodities and the majority of our systems are Windows / C# based but there is also an increasing emphasis on Java / Linux and Python.

Our UI's are mostly React.
HADOOP, Couchbase, MongoDB and MS SQL server are all used for data caching and storage.

Architecture:

What you will do

Our Role
We are looking to build a QA team to help support our Commodities trading system. Remote workers will augment IT staff in our main offices who now work on a hybrid model.

The team develops and supports a strategic platform which calculates, manages and stores risk data for front office trading and we need to increase the size of our team to support build out of the Oil, Metals, Gas and Power trading operations.

Responsibilities include:

The primary responsibility of the QA team is the operational management of the SIT / UAT cycle

Other responsibilities include:

Preparing test strategies and test plans.
Obtaining user sign offs.
Data analysis on results, impacts and reasons for numbers change.
Improving the functionality in testing tools and shortening / automating the time taken on regression cycles.
Coordination with upstream booking systems, market data, reference data and quant library teams on change.
Scrutinising development releases/plans to understand scope and change impact.
Holding the development teams to account on issue resolution.
Managing test environments across the team and ensuring that we have sufficient capacity.
Manage metrics on production release issues
Long term aims
Expanding beyond numbers impact to performance impact and functional features.
Build out of stress / volume testing features.
Management of the BCP process.

What you will bring / Key skills required:

Test Automation experience
Technical skills in Python and or C#
SQL skills
Experience in test case automation using an existing test automation framework
Experience translating software requirements/stories into accurate and complete test scenarios, including identifying the detailed test data needs
Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (nice to have)

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Technology Quality

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Time Type:

Full time

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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