VP - SDET (Quality Engineering)

About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. ('Jefferies, 'we, 'us or 'our) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

Position:

Jefferies is seeking an SDET for Middle and Back Office related application suites. Candidate should have hands on experience in QA automated testing as they will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks and tools.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust test automation frameworks - functional, regression, system, and integration testing for UI, API, and backend systems.
• Develop and enhance test plans, test cases, and test scripts using tools like TestComplete, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, etc.
• Ability to work with development team and DevOps engineers to develop a priority list of manual test cases where targeted automation would most benefit the Quality Engineering process by allowing more focus on unit testing development and automated integration and regression with DevOps methodology.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo or GitHub Actions.
• Participate in Agile ceremoniessprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
• Execute and document test cases, results, and log defects for failed cases, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects and optimize performance.
• Contribute to performance and security testing initiatives.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure testability of the codebase.

Desired Experience/ Skills:

• 12 -15 Years of relevant experince.
• Strong experience automating manual test cases for applications.
• Strong experience in Windows and Linux/Unix services.
• Experience in languages like Python, Java.
• Experience in scripting language Power shell and working experience in SQL.
• Hands on experience in working on tools like JIRA, and Test Management tools
• Strong experience in DevOps integration tools such as Bamboo, GitHub, J-Frog, Jenkins, Bit Bucket, Kubernetes, FDD, BDD, TDD test frameworks
• Experience and in-depth understanding of the Software Testing principles.
• Experience in the field of IT and Capital Markets, and testing in the Banking and Financial Industry domain.
• Defect Management Articulation of defects in detailed manner, assigning defects to technical teams, capturing target fix dates and resolution comments from IT
• Co-ordinate with Project/ Program managers with clear communications.
• Ability to drive the project Initiatives on your own, plan and execute activities based on project milestones, and independently manage communications.
• Adept at providing Testing, Technical and Domain expertise by guidance to team.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.