QA Engineer at FASTMARKETS COMMODITIES SINGAPORE PTE LTD

Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

15 Dec, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

16 Sep, 25

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Quality Assurance, Automation Testing, End-to-End Testing, SQL, Agile, Cucumber, CI/CD Pipelines, Behavior Driven Development, Test Scenario Analysis, Collaboration, Communication, Microservices, Debugging, Test Frameworks, Software Development Processes, Test Coverage Measurement

Industry

Information Services

Description

Company Description Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability. Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times. We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital. Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey. Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies. Job Description This is a unique opportunity to join the Fastmarkets Technology Team to help continue grow our technology and build a highly skilled team that will enable us to accelerate our product delivery and scale our business. The Technology team at Fastmarkets develop, enhance and support our flagship digital platform, serving global customers with critical data, news and analytics in the commodities markets we serve. We make this data and intelligence easily accessible though multiple channels including web, desktop, API, Excel and mobile iOS and Android applications, enabling customers to integrate our digital offering into their business workflows. The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer works is a full-time position working within a Scrum team reporting to the Engineering Manager. In this role, they will be working as part of a global a team of Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Product Managers to successfully develop and deliver new features. This includes contributing to major projects that make a difference to Fastmarkets customers both in our existing markets such as metals, forest products and agricultural commodity sectors. The QA Engineer will be principally working within an expert group such as Market Data, Platform Services, News, Prices, and Analytics and from there develop knowledge across all dimensions of the Fastmarkets platform, enabling them to be equipped with both business and technical expertise to tackle Fastmarkets’ most exciting business challenges. The QA Engineer will be responsible for the set-up, execution, and on-going maintenance of manual tests and automation test frameworks to ensure the quality assurance of software and services. The role is a hands-on, individual contributor role, working in close collaboration both colleagues within Technology and Product functions within Fastmarkets. Principal Accountabilities Quality Assurance Work closely with other QA Engineers and Software Engineers to develop and maintain test frameworks and test environments for the execution of automated and manual tests. Work closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners to understand, write, refine, and implement various test scenarios. These will be used to help build a robust and efficient test suite for functional, non-functional and regression testing purposes. Within the Scrum team, work closely with other members to ensure software solutions meet our quality assurance standards. Proactively ensure that requirements are clear for any new feature, and that the acceptance criteria are appropriate prior to implementation. Prepare release plans and coordinate with the Release Manager for effective software delivery Work within the agile software development framework used across Fastmarkets Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained Leadership and Collaboration Participating in and contributing to team meetings and stand ups, bring in new ideas Working collaboratively with other engineers, product developers and business analysts Helping to resolve support issues where appropriate Qualifications We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on... KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly. Strong background testing software solutions in a microservice environment Experience in at least one automation framework of the following: Cucumber + Playwright (ideal) Cucumber + Selenium Cucumber + Cypress Python Behave Framework Experience in end-to-end (e2e) testing Ability to integrate backend and frontend tests for e2e data assertion Ability to integrate testing solutions to CI/CD pipelines Experience in SQL and creating test data Excellent background in Analysing and setting up test scenarios Exploring positive and negative journeys Measuring and tracking test coverage Good understanding of development processes Agile (including Scrum and Kanban) Behaviour Driven Development Automated build and deploy processes including CI/CD pipelines Some basic knowledge of a modern programming language Knowledge of tools used for fault diagnosis and debugging of software applications Good communication skills, collaborative attitude with a strong desire to help deliver quality software to customers If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway. Additional Information Our Values Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values. Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are: METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day. CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences. You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you! If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.

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Responsibilities

The QA Engineer will be responsible for the set-up, execution, and ongoing maintenance of manual tests and automation test frameworks to ensure the quality assurance of software and services. They will work closely with other QA Engineers, Software Engineers, Business Analysts, and Product Managers to develop and deliver new features.