Market Data QA Engineer

at  LSEG London Stock Exchange Group

Overview

The role is for a QA tester/engineer - will be responsible for analysing, scoping, and performing Test sets/cases manually both in functional and regression.

• There will also be a requirement to be a point of contact for areas of SIT and UAT testing with the relevant business lines.
• However, we do encourage resources to broaden their skills and experiences, becoming multi-functional and thrive in the profession, and since this is an engineering role, would be involved in QA automated engineering.

The Market Data platform

• Is used in LCH to manage and maintains most of the instrument market data and reference data used within the organisation.
• The Market Data platform is part of the shared services area so gets exposure to many business areas and instruments, and as well as being a shared service, it is a critical service for the business lines to function.

The product

• Is based off Alveotech (formally Asset Control), which is a third-party application.
• The core application is built using the core Alveotech functionality as well as Perl, Python, shell script and Java. A scheduler is also used to drive some of the core processes, using Control-m, which is a third-party application.
• The application uses MQ and REST API services to integrate with the business lines.

The team

• Has recently moved towards a more Agile way of working and is adapting more core Agile principles, so the team is mostly made up of squads.
• The squads are typically made up of QA testing skills, QA automation development skills, software development skills, Business analyst skills, and DevOps skills.
• However, there are instances when squads are made up of very focused skills such as Cloud Engineering. There are resources that are not part of the core squad resources, which is generally the senior management.

The QA Automation

• Is built using cucumber and java technologies, triggered using dedicated Jenkins pipelines.
• There are several tools that are used to perform core processes and activities such as JIRA, GIT for source control, Jenkins pipelines, Nexus repository, HashiCorp Vault, and Ansible to manage our deployments, package builds, among others.
• The application is nearing its end of the AWS migration journey so is using other more Cloud based technologies such as Terraform, Packer and AWS technologies.

Key responsibilities:

• Execution of functional, end-user, UAT business tests.
• To create and maintain test data concerning test in the plan for execution.
• To write detailed reusable test cases, ensuring they represent the full set of functionalities being tested
• To complete test cases as per the test.
• Record and analyse test results, instigate, and progress error procedures for any defects found.
• Clear vision and adoption of testing best practices.
• Act as a point of reference for business user test teams during their testing phases.
• Escalation of risks and working proactively to resolve issues where necessary.
• Bring pragmatic thinking to drive up testing for both functional & automation.
• Get into the details, be hands on and find the biggest challenges in our current process and innovate solutions to improve productivity and quality of testing.
• Adhere to Test strategy guidelines, and processes when applicable
• Playing a major role in carrying out day to day responsibilities of testing, to ensure the delivery of the new technology on time and with minimal risk to BAU
• Raise defects, manage, and report updates, retest and review issues and requirement variations.
• Use Jira to record results per strategy guidelines and adapt to frequent variations in results gathering.

Essential experience:

• Over 2 years test/quality analysis experience in a financial organisation
• Experience working in scrum methods (Agile)

Benefits:
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
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The role is for a QA tester/engineer - will be responsible for analysing, scoping, and performing Test sets/cases manually both in functional and regression.

• There will also be a requirement to be a point of contact for areas of SIT and UAT testing with the relevant business lines.
• However, we do encourage resources to broaden their skills and experiences, becoming multi-functional and thrive in the profession, and since this is an engineering role, would be involved in QA automated engineering

Key responsibilities:

• Execution of functional, end-user, UAT business tests.
• To create and maintain test data concerning test in the plan for execution.
• To write detailed reusable test cases, ensuring they represent the full set of functionalities being tested
• To complete test cases as per the test.
• Record and analyse test results, instigate, and progress error procedures for any defects found.
• Clear vision and adoption of testing best practices.
• Act as a point of reference for business user test teams during their testing phases.
• Escalation of risks and working proactively to resolve issues where necessary.
• Bring pragmatic thinking to drive up testing for both functional & automation.
• Get into the details, be hands on and find the biggest challenges in our current process and innovate solutions to improve productivity and quality of testing.
• Adhere to Test strategy guidelines, and processes when applicable
• Playing a major role in carrying out day to day responsibilities of testing, to ensure the delivery of the new technology on time and with minimal risk to BAU
• Raise defects, manage, and report updates, retest and review issues and requirement variations.
• Use Jira to record results per strategy guidelines and adapt to frequent variations in results gathering