Automation Tester / SDET - Market Surveillance / Financial Services

Project Description:

The Market Surveillance Technology team is responsible for developing and supporting applications within the Financial Services/Markets domain. The role focuses on Quality Engineering and test automation for applications built on Microservices Architecture, ensuring application quality, reliability, and data integrity.

You need to have a strong hands-on experience in test automation, microservices testing, and Financial Services, preferably within the Markets domain.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts and automation frameworks.

• Develop and implement automated testing solutions for applications based on Microservices Architecture.

• Perform functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end testing.

• Validate service-to-service interactions, data flows, and application integrations within a microservices environment.

• Develop and execute API automation using appropriate automation tools and frameworks.

• Perform database and data validation testing where required.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality practices.

• Identify, analyze, document, and track defects through to resolution.

• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment.

• Contribute to improving automation coverage, framework capabilities, test efficiency, and overall Quality Engineering practices.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years of overall experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience in Test Automation.

• Strong experience testing applications built on Microservices Architecture.

• Strong programming experience in Java and/or Python.

• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar.

• Strong experience in API Testing and API Automation using tools/frameworks such as Rest Assured, Postman, or similar.

• Good experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar.

• Good hands-on experience with Git/version control.

• Strong understanding of Quality Engineering and automation best practices.

• Good understanding and hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Financial Services domain experience is mandatory, with Markets domain experience preferred.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Experience in Capital Markets, Trading Platforms, Exchange Systems, or Market Surveillance.

• Good understanding of Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, and/or Commodity Markets.

• Knowledge of Order Lifecycle Management and Trade Lifecycle.

• Understanding of Trade Surveillance and detection of trading anomalies.

• Exposure to regulatory and compliance-related systems or applications.

• Experience working with large-scale financial or market data.

Languages:

English: B2 Upper Intermediate