Associate - Senior QA Engineer

About Deutsche Börse Group:

Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, Deutsche Börse Group is a leading international exchange organization and market infrastructure provider. They empower investors, financial institutions, and companies by facilitating access to global capital markets.

Their India centre is located in Hyderabad, serves as a key strategic hub and comprises India's top-tier tech talent. They focus on crafting advanced IT solutions that elevate market infrastructure and services. Deutsche Börse Group in India is composed of a team of capital market engineers forming the backbone of financial markets worldwide.

Your area of work:

For our new office in Hyderabad, we are looking for an experienced Test Engineer supporting the further development of our leading-edge Trading System T7 offering order and quote management, on- and off-book trading services in simple and complex instruments.

You will shape a motivated team, working in an international environment, driven to keep up the highest levels of service quality while constantly allowing for integration of functional and technical improvements in a fast-changing domain. Your effective collaboration with the business, operations, specification, build and system test teams working in our distributed environment is crucial and relies on clear communication, trust, and usage of digital tools.

Quality Assurance serves as a final quality gateway for the Trading System T7 before customers get access to fixes, enhancements, changes, or new releases in Member Simulation and Production. Quality Assurance takes care of the appropriate measures to achieve the high quality of the software from a functional, technical and performance perspective.

Your responsibilities:

• Plan and perform functional testing of the Deutsche Börse Group Trading System T7 and of the trading regulatory reports, with timely and high impact feedback.
• Closely align with the business, operations, functional and build and system test teams for a streamlined efficient delivery process.
• Self-organize software testing for your area of expertise with focus on responsibilities, contents, and schedule.
• Create and update test models and scripts for test automation.
• Constantly enhance (automated) smoke test and regression test portfolios to ensure high functional coverage.
• Ensure that the software deliveries fulfil the defined quality requirements for the installation in Simulation and Production.
• Support ad hoc inquiries from Simulation and Production.
• Drive the continuous improvement of software testing activities / processes and test reporting.

Your profile:

• University degree in business studies or in engineering or comparable qualification.
• Strong expertise in functionality of cash and derivatives trading systems is essential.
• Deep knowledge of test methodology, management, planning and execution. A professional tester certification, e.g., ISTQB is a benefit.
• Deep experience in iterative and agile development methods with dedicated expertise for testing of software from a functional perspective.
• Deep experience with creating, executing and analyzing automated functional tests.
• Solid user experience in Linux operating system, GitHub, Jira and continuous integration.
• Expertise in scripting for test and test automation; scripting in python preferred.

Inter-personal skills are essential to successfully fill this position:

• Highly self-motivated and self-directed.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.
• Ability to organize work and drive results in our international team.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.