Test Engineer - Investment Data Platform at M&G plc

Mumbai, maharashtra, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

10 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Test Automation, Agile Methodologies, Object-Oriented Programming, Relational Databases, Non-Relational Databases, Groovy, SpecFlow, Selenium, Cucumber, API Testing, Microsoft Azure, TDD, BDD, Attention to Detail, Interpersonal Skills, Root Cause Analysis

Industry

Financial Services

Description

We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited). We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003. Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions. M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G’s ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world. Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. Job Description Job Title Lead Test Engineer – Investment Data Platform Grade 2B Level Experienced colleague Job Function Asset Management Tech & Change Job Sub Function Investments Data Platform Reports to Lead/Sr. Manager – Investments Data Platform (India) Location Mumbai Business Area M&G Global Services Overall Job Purpose Working with M&G Plc. means becoming part of a brand with a global reputation and our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly. M&G plc is a firm built on a rich and long history and with a commitment to an innovative future centred on the needs of customers and clients. There is a genuine opportunity to drive competitive advantage with value creation through the formation of this new organisation. The Lead Test Engineer is expected to deliver platform testing for the investment data platform. Carry out the development of automation test frameworks across one or more interrelated data platform teams. Promoting the use of best tools for a particular job and are proficient in multiple test scripting languages. Work closely with leads across and collaborate to design test strategies which will support complex deliveries. You will be required to manage communications between teams, resolve dependencies, whilst promoting knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice. Your key priorities will gravitate around development of solutions to support the Investment Data platform to meet increased demands across the investment teams, clients and regulators. Accountabilities/Responsibilities Key accountabilities and responsibilities Be accountable for delivering and maintaining significant portion of the Investment Data Platform Test capabilities and design/develop testing frameworks in support of the same.. Applies judgement to deliver outcomes, evaluating solutions, considering the impact for customers, cost and risk. Manages conflicts that may impact delivery. Promote the use of the best tools for a particular job and keep up-to-date with domain, business, programming languages (e.g. scripting language, C#, Java) and testing tools & technology (e.g. Groovy, Specflow, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.) Explore different types of automated/technical testing techniques to drive the test approach. Understand and build key testing design principles and be able to create testing tools to aid with testing from scratch. Be able to build, package and deploy software through environments; manage configuration settings and check the success of a deployment whilst being able to maintain the deployment framework. Creation, maintenance and subsequent running of functional and non-functional tests within the team and analyse and present results to stakeholders. Perform Root Cause analysis against the issue to provide as much information in the report and create automated tests where relevant for defects to ensure they do not reoccur. Drive the code/test review process across the whole discipline and participate in code/test reviews written by other engineers. Consistently identify improvement opportunities within the team and implements processes to address improvement opportunities. Influence testing process standardisation and stimulate knowledge sharing initiatives within the team. Key Stakeholder Management Internal All M&G Plc Business Areas M&G Plc Support Groups External Partner(s)/Vendor(s) Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification Knowledge & Skills (Key): Good knowledge of Object-Oriented programming and Relational & Non-Relational databases management systems. Experience in building Test Automation frameworks using Groovy, SpecFlow, Selenium, Cucumber etc. Experience working in an Agile environment, TDD and BDD methodologies. Familiarity with Unit testing frameworks e.g. MS Unit Testing Framework, NUnit, Mocha as well as BDD tools e.g. Spock for Groovy. Experience in Microsoft Azure - App Services, Service Bus, Azure VM, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Function Apps. API Testing, and an understanding smoke testing and performance testing. Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and orally, within a project team Excellent attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and work efficiently to project deadlines Knowledge & Skills (Desirable): Exposure to financial markets & asset management processes and understand analysis into a wide variety of asset classes and associated analytics (e.g. Equity, Fixed Income, Private Assets etc). Experience in Snowflake. Experience: 8+ years of total experience in Technology/Software Development/Data Engineering. 4+ years of experience in a Test Engineer role. Educational Qualification: Graduate in any discipline. M&G Behaviours relevant to all roles: Note: *We are in Hybrid working with min. three days’ work from office (subject to policy change) We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks. M&G is a leading international savings and investments business, managing money for around 4.6 million individual clients and more than 900 institutional clients in 38 offices worldwide. As at 31 December 2024, we had £345.9 billion of assets under management and administration. Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Responsibilities

The Lead Test Engineer is responsible for delivering platform testing for the investment data platform and developing automation test frameworks. This role involves managing communications between teams, resolving dependencies, and promoting knowledge sharing and good practices.