Senior Quality Automation Engineer Typescript/Javascript

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Data today improves performance tomorrow. This is why crafting data driven solutions so businesses can make informed decision is so crucial. This means we are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join a growing team and to support testing initiatives in conjunction with the development of our software applications. Ensuring the quality of our business systems is paramount, so our customers can get behind data that really matters.

Responsible for the automation of quality control and testing across the technology lifecycle, identifying and addressing issues in alignment with standards and technology strategy.

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• Oversees technical implementation of quality control, testing and analysis, providing guidance where issues arise.
• Assigns required tests to Associate Engineer, Engineer and Senior Engineer as required.
• Develops technical testing programmes throughout the entire technologies’ lifecycles which address performance, 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.
• Working with Product and Business owners to transform non-functional requirements into automated pipeline solutions
• Reviews and approves test plans and scripts to ensure alignment with standards and technology strategy.
• Oversees the maintenance of all customer technology solutions, ensuring all issues are resolved on time.
• Recommends and implements, as assigned, improvements to quality control frameworks, processes and best practices.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
• ISTQB Core Advanced/Specialist Certified or equivalent
• Exhibits strong knowledge in software quality assurance processes and methodologies
• Exhibits strong experience in test automation, with knowledge of performance testing and manual testing.
• Exhibits strong experience in the software development life cycle and one programming language, preferably in multi-tiered applications.

Main Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and deliver automated test frameworks to maintain and improve the customer experience in terms of availability, performance, and usablity
• Perform automated testing to validate the single-user experience remains performant
• Maintain existing automation frameworks
• Implement new test cases in Playwright in accordance with the project schedules
• Track and communicate task progress, status, and key performance metrics
• Identify, report and actively handle defects via the defect tracking system
• Handle quality assurance testing and bug/fix resolution
• Collaborating with developers, business and client specialists
• Analysing performance data
• Providing recommendations based on test results
• Monitoring system and application performance
• Documenting processes and procedure

Required Skills:

• 7 + years experience with automation testing with Typescript/Javascript
• Significant experience working with Playwright, Python
• CI/CD, testing automation tools and frameworks
• Agile methodologies, Scrum, SAFE
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Stays up to date with current tooling and technologies.

Bonus skills

• Comfortable working with statistics
• Knowledge of Financial markets
• Experience of API testing (Postman, k6, JMeter)
• AWS, Azure
• PowerBI

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 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:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines

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.

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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