Lead QA Engineer

Project description

Our Client is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Their purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

We are seeking a Lead QA Engineer to join a highly collaborative, cross-functional, software QA team responsible for functional testing, performancetesting and data validation across a variety of technologies.

This role will be based in Beijing which will have support both locally and from the wider teams.

This role will work as part of a scrum team and may lead the integration testing across multiple scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Set project testing strategy/test plan: test environment, automation, performance, test data management, testing tools etc.

• Lead functional/non-functional testing and business-oriented end to end integration.
• Set clear automation goal and drive automation implementation
• Collaborate with Solution Architect, BA for the Non-functional requirements and set the performance testing plan
• Follow best practices and QA methodologies and processes, working across critical stages of the product lifecycle from define to build
• Understand the business use cases and carry out testing to ensure top quality of delivered solutions
• Understand and analyse the Requirement Specifications and design test scenarios
• Review and analyse completeness of test coverage
• Carry out Functional testing and Non-functional testing
• Solve technical issues and challenges in testing work
• Execute Test Scripts, Defect tracking in applicable tool, Status Reporting, Defect Reporting
• Oversees the maintenance of all customer technology solutions, ensuring all issues are resolved on time
• Drive continuous improvement from quality perspective
• Responsible for communicating the status of ongoing work to stakeholders accurately
• Provide coaching to junior staff (Associate Engineer, Engineer and Senior Engineer) as needed

SKILLS

Must have

• 10+ years experience in Software QA or Development Engieer role
• Proven ability to drive and implement test strategies/test plan, including automation, performance, E2E integration, test environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Software QA methodologies and experience of agile testing
• Strong background with test automation
• Excellent coding skills in Python or Java
• Proven record to set the quality measurement model and drive continuous quality improvement
• Excellent coaching skills
• Good communication and influence skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of SDLC, CICD and Git (source code repository)
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and TestRail
• Cloud testing experience (Azure, AWS, etc) and relevant certificates are preferred

Nice to have

•Knowledge of financial services is a plus