Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

at  CMC Markets

Join CMC’s Stockbroking Technology Team as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual focused) and bring your passion for testing and financial markets. This permanent role will be based onsite in our Barangaroo office. Please note that this role is only open to Sydney based candidates with full working rights (Citizen/Permanent Resident).
CMC Markets is a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Our vision is to provide the ultimate online trading experience so everyone can achieve their financial potential. Since our launch in London in 1989, we’ve expanded globally with offices across Europe and Asia Pacific. Over 1.2 million clients make 67 million trades with us every year, and we’re still growing.
What is in it for me?
This is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly growing FinTech (2nd largest stockbroker in Australia) undergoing a global transformation program where you will get the opportunity to work in a quality assurance role across our Trading Platforms. You will join a high-performance team developing new services and delivering breakthrough solutions for existing and new customer segments worldwide. You will be backed by a fantastic group of people in a can-do, supportive structure that offers career development and flexible working.
Please note that we operate onsite working and would require you to come into our Barangaroo office 5 days per week.

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Test planning and design, including test data and environment requirements
• Creating and maintaining test plans and test scripts, ensuring proper test coverage for all functional requirements
• Preparing and managing test data
• Executing test scripts, recording and analysing results for variance against expected outcomes
• Logging and tracking identified defects & monitoring them through resolution
• Analysing defects to identify what is causing them
• Providing feedback to the development team
• Preparing regular test status & test completion reports for progress tracking
• Develop testing schedules to optimise the availability of testing resources
• Perform usability testing for system performance, reliability, scalability, and security
• Provides internal quality assurance

We look for teammates who have:

• 5+ years experience working on med/ large IT projects (ideally within financial services) as a QA/Test Engineer (Manual testing focused).
• Experience using Jira and Git
• Experience with API testing
• Testing experience in both back end C# server and UI JavaScript environments
• Testing experience in Mobile apps eg. iOS &/or Android
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile/frequent releases environment and adapt to significant amounts of change in work assignment
• Knowledge of primary database engines (SQL Server) with a demonstrated ability to write complex queries to be used for data validation & troubleshooting
• High standard of attention to detail and tenacity
• Highly analytical and a problem solver (problem ownership)
• Full working rights (Australian Citizen/Permanent Resident)

Benefits

• Competitive salary + bonus.
• Charity give-back days.
• 1 extra annual day of leave for your birthday.
• CMC Benefits hub, Social Club, Women@CMC, LinkedIn Learning, Novated Leasing + more.
• Generous L&D program so you can continue to build new skills to grow your professional career.

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyon

• Test planning and design, including test data and environment requirements
• Creating and maintaining test plans and test scripts, ensuring proper test coverage for all functional requirements
• Preparing and managing test data
• Executing test scripts, recording and analysing results for variance against expected outcomes
• Logging and tracking identified defects & monitoring them through resolution
• Analysing defects to identify what is causing them
• Providing feedback to the development team
• Preparing regular test status & test completion reports for progress tracking
• Develop testing schedules to optimise the availability of testing resources
• Perform usability testing for system performance, reliability, scalability, and security
• Provides internal quality assuranc