Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

You will be a part of the team who develops the SimCorp Client Reporting software suite, part of the Data Communications offer. SimCorp Client Reporting is a best-in-class client communications and client reporting solution used by private wealth and asset management firms to increase operational efficiency, enhance client service and enrich client experience. SimCorp Client Reporting automates the business processes that generate personalized client reports, pitchbooks, client meeting packs and other client communications

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

As a Software engineer specializing in Quality Assurance, you will work within an agile development team to deliver enhancements to existing functionality, new features and to identify continuous improvements to the work processes. You will be involved in all phases of the development process, and your tasks will include requirements (use case) review, planning and writing test specifications, test execution, test automation and support.

What we require:

• At least 5 years’ experience in a full-time testing role working on complex systems (both web-based and desktop applications)
• Experience of manual functional testing
• Comprehensive understanding of testing methodologies, principles, levels, types and techniques
• Good test design skills and product documentation
• checklists
• test cases
• test suites creation
• functional areas identification
• user stories
• specifications
• Experience with SQL, ability to write basic scripts to create and manipulate data
• Experience with QA tools (e.g., Playwright, Postman) and API testing
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines client server architecture
• Practical experience with automation frameworks or scripting
• Good understanding of the development life cycle
• High self-organization skills
• Investment and effective communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to enhance QA processes and establish quality guidelines
• Experience working in Agile teams with a pragmatic, quality-focused mindset
• Fluent in English language (verbal and written)

What is nice to have:

• Experience with retrofitting automated tests to legacy systems
• Experience with C# or other programming languages
• Programming experience
• Experience with reporting systems

BENEFITS

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Swati Pal(Swati.pal@simcorp.com), Talent Acquisition Partner. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.