Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: Greater London

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The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.  We are 5,300 people strong.  We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
** Role Overview
** The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (SQA) will work within an Agile team as an advocate of Quality. The SQA will drive Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) to ensure business outcomes are delivered. They will work closely with product owners and developers to provide In-Sprint QA to match the team’s definition of Done and provide working software at the end of each Sprint.

They will ensure quality of both the product as well as the test framework as it evolves. Each Sprint, the SQA will be expected to identify necessary testing strategies and drive their implementation whether it is manual session based, automation or system performance related.  The SQA will work alongside like-minded, skilled engineers, solving complex problems and delivering great software to support successful, award-winning products.

Strong in automation skills, they will lead the Agile team in a shift left methodology to have a high level of automation, of which the key focus should be API level testing.
** Role Responsibilities
*** Collaborate closely with global Business Analyst, Development and QA teams for efficient test planning , test design and co-ordinate testing efforts between global teams.
* Play key role in functional and automated tests, supporting design, development, execution and maintenance of scripts that run in CI/CD environment.
* Mentoring and coaching the team members to stretch quality achievements
* Consistently strive to empower the full Agile team in understanding the importance of QA
* Promote delivery of quality software – unit tests, code reviews etc.
* Demonstrate a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership and prioritization of tasks.
* Experiment with multiple technologies and methodologies as part of delivery, to help guarantee the best solution and approach.
* Take Ownership/Accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.
* Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.
** Experience / Competences
** Essential* Strong proven experience operating as a senior QA automation engineer
* Proficient in programming or scripting language such as Java, JavaScript or similar
* Demonstrable experience using JIRA, Zephyr, UI Automation tooling (Test Complete,  Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
* Adept at analysing and identifying key areas for automation using development, data manipulation and scripting skills
* Experience and developing end to end functional automated tests
* Experience of designing Acceptance Test Criteria for functional requirements, writing and maintaining end to end tests with an Automated Framework.
* Skilled in using CI/CD tooling such as Git Lab, Team City, Jenkins.
* Experience of using BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber and performance/ NFR testing tool J-Meter or similar.
* Non-Functional testing including, Performance, Load, Stress and Security testing
* Knowledge of FIX Client / FIX API automation.
* Understanding of trade life cycle and knowledge of broker/ trader platforms
* Identify and raise risks to the project and product to key stakeholders.…