Senior Test Automation Engineer, London Stock Exchange

• Excellent communication skills will be vital in this role
• Extensive automation testing experience in Investment Banking IT, preparing and executing automated tests on a Financial platforms
• Extensive experience of creating automated tests for various layers of applications
• Working knowledge of investment banking products - OTC Derivatives, Listed Derivatives, FX, Equity, Fixed Income
• Experience of requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers and resolving issues
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude
• Min 5 years recent experience on QA Java automation – backend
• Agile testing delivery
• Test execution using GUIs and APIs
• JIRA
• SQL
• Cucumber
• Git
• Zephyr
• Bachelor degree in Business or Computer Science preferred
• ISEB or ISTQB testing qualification preferred
• Test automation using a variety of test automation tools and frameworks
• Test Engineer developing test strategy and process flows, for at least 2 large IT projects
• Test analysis techniques
• Test execution on the Murex Platform
• Investment banking testing
• Results Analysis
• Defect Management
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Ability to work with and interact with other departments throughout the organization

Desirable

• Looking to hire an Automation Test Engineer, the role spans the automation of low-level business functional tests through to mid-level system integration tests
• The successful candidate will have to co-ordinate with Operations Change Business Analysis team, Development teams, and Project managers, as well as testing teams
• The successful candidate will have an excellent QA background with experience of a variety of automation test tools, technologies and have business domain expertise and experience of delivery in complex fast moving environments
• The role will report to the Test Manager and work day to day with the Test Lead
• Be able to lead and champion a stream of work
• Contribute to enhancement of the automation packs and test automation framework
• Work with QA Engineers and Development Team to enhance testing tools and processes
• Develop Test Scenarios and Cases from business requirements ensuring there is traceability back to all requirements
• Work with the business and technical sponsors to qualify the requirements and if identified, track and monitor gaps until sign-off
• Prepare the test data
• Maintenance and execution of tests, recording of results and undertaking defect fix re-testing, integration and regression testing
• Reporting defects and progress in a clear and concise way in accordance with defect standards
• Working with the technical teams to help resolve issues
• Performing results analysis
• Work to agreed timescales
• Identify risks and escalate issues to the project stakeholders
• Providing feedback where procedures improvements are suitable
• Implementing test plans to deliver test phases on time

• End Date: December 25, 2025