Calypso Test Engineer

Location: Greater London

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** Role Profile**# This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Calypso Test Engineer with previous exposure to test driven delivery of both functional and component testing using CATT (Calypso Automation Testing Tool). It is a techno-functional role with a primary focus on implementing test automation strategies and best practices for our technology solutions.

We are looking for talented individuals to innovate and support our collateral automation framework. This is an exciting opportunity to join an area of the business in growth mode with a full and varied book of work, underpinning the stability and growth of the firm.
** Key Objectives
** As a key member of the Collateral Technology Team, the Calypso test engineer will join one of our scrum teams to help deliver our IT/Business initiatives. As a member of the scrum team, they will actively work with Calypso implementation and software engineers to automate the testing of our requirements and complete all quality assurance activities.#
** Key Responsibilities of the role
*** QA testing the Calypso platform and solutions as per the defined requirements & assisting with the creation of documents in conjunction with other technical staff,
* Performs all quality assurance activities for one of our scrum teams,
* Ensures all quality control tests are carried out accurately and documented in full,
* Assists with continuous improvements of the automation process to minimise manual testing efforts,
* Enhances our existing test automation framework and test coverage,
* Develops new tests and tools for our collateral components, APIs and services, test related CI/CD pipelines,
* Investigate testing failures, with the ability to debug code and effectively communicate the underlying issues,
* Develop working knowledge of the collateral application stack including tests at all levels
-junit, component tests and end-to-end.
* Collaborate with the Business users, Scrum leads and the test engineering team to understand how new features should be tested and to contribute to automated tests for these new features.
* Collaborate with other application engineers to define and implement mechanisms to inject automation testing earlier into the software development process (TDD or BDD),
* Configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD environments.
* Track and communicate test results in a timely, effective, and automated manner,
* Assist the application support team in resolving production issues where necessary,
* Ensure cross-team coordination, between onshore and offshore teams,
* Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile centre of excellence. Actively contribute to our continuous improvement culture.#
** Reporting
* * The Calypso Test Engineer will report to the Collateral Technology Senior Delivery Manager, and work closely with the IT development and Product teams as well as key stakeholders from Collateral Operations, Risk, Finance and Front Office.#
** Skills Required
*** Experience in test automation using Calypso & CATT (Calypso automated testing tool) is a must,
* Knowledge of different phases of testing e.g. SIT, UAT, Regression, Performance, Load,
* Understanding of test management tools such as JIRA/Zephyr,
* Ability to work with engineers to investigate test failures beneficial,
* Knowledge in a programming language e.g. Java / Python is an advantage,
* Database and SQL skills to write and execute queries,
* Ability to manage various stakeholders’ expectations (Business Leads, Technical Leads).
* Experience of implementing and testing Back-office and Collateral management solutions,
* Preferrable Fixed Income and Repo asset classes and their associated life cycle events,
* Expert on standard back-office processing Cash and Security Settlement (Swift), messages (confirmation, advices and statements), Operation (Task Station), Corporate Action, Accounting (General Ledger, P&L Accounting, etc and Collateral Management (GMRA, CSA and Triparty),
* Workflow, Exception Management & Static Data (SSI, Entities, Contacts, etc.),
* Previous experience testing using a batch scheduler e.g. Control-M an advantage,
* Knowledge of Cloud & Container…