Lead Quality Engineer

Role Description:

We are seeking an expert Lead Quality Engineer to join a highly collaborative, multi-functional, agile product development team responsible for delivering high quality and timely software systems for our Analytics product in Analytics division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops testing programmes throughout the entire technologies’ lifecycles that address areas such as functionality, compatibility, reliability and usability.

• Leads a wide range of quality control planning and execution activities in alignment with the organisation's standards and strategy to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified business and customer needs.

• Brings together testing requirements by evaluating the product requirement specifications (functional / non-functional) and raise clarifications with product owners, business analysts and customers.

• Develops, performs and maintains test scripts/cases autonomously– manual, automation, performance, and supporting analysis. Assigns required tests to Associates.

• Leads the ongoing maintenance of customer technologies, resolving issues and intensifying where vital.

• Recommends and supports the implementation of improvements to quality control frameworks, processes and standard methodologies.

• Builds positive relationships with team and colleagues, collaborating closely with the team.

• Communicates clearly with team and keeps clear lines of communication open to ensure full understanding of tasks, asking questions where needed.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

Crucial Skills and Experience

• Analyse software and quality requirements and document test plans.

• Design, develop, review and implement integration, system, acceptance and end-to-end test strategies.

• Assess and report on software risk and release readiness.

• Proven track record in building test automation for backend services solutions including API, working with programming languages Python/Java, and api test or database automation.

• Automation and manual testing for multi-tier, on prem and cloud based coordinated solutions.

• Hands-on experiences with automation frameworks like Pytest, Cucumber, JMeter, etc.

• Experience with DevOps tooling including GitLab, pipelines. Understanding of CICD methodology.

• Understanding of financial markets, experience testing financial software a plus.

Crucial Personal Skills and Values

• Strong analytical skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Stays up to date with the best tooling and new technologies.

Desired Skills

• Experience in other SDLC stages like business requirement analysis, development, production service support.

• Experience in multiple programming languages.

• Experience with performance test.

• Experience with test data management like synthetic data generation, test data selection and coverage analysis.

• Familiarity with various cloud technologies like Azure or AWS.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Dev Ops.

• Agile methodologies, Scrum, SAFe.

Benefits

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!

We enhance each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.

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.

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.

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 individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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.

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.

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 individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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