Automated Functional Test Engineer

One of the world’s top investment banks is opening a position of a Automated Functional Test Engineer. The successful candidate will work within a new team creating a booking service within the European Cash area of Equities IT. This team will develop a key regional system performing the difficult task of interfacing between front office and settlement systems.
Automated Functional Test Engineer develops and maintains automated testing methodology, standards, templates, etc. The test engineer can create an automated testing framework from scratch when necessary. In addition, the test engineer writes data-driven scripts, creates and works with custom functions, writes technical and functional documentation for automation scripts, and creates scripts for GUI applications and Oracle databases.

Responsibilities Include: 1. Possessing all the skills of a manual test engineer (described above); 2. Creating automated test scripts and test sets needed to be executed according to business requirements or previously created manual test cases; 3. Executing test sets, effectively and accurately analyzing and documenting results; 4. Remediating scripts according to changes to new application releases; 5. Ensuring proper testing conditions (baseline) in QA environment are maintained; 6. Reporting results to QA management and proactively working to resolve any issues; 7. Storing test scripts and sets, and maintaining a test data repository within TestDirector; 8. Working in an dynamic and fast-paced environment with time-sensitive deadlines; 9. Reading, understanding and interpreting a variety of documents (e.g., business requirements and technical specifications); 10. Problem analysis combined with problem solving.

Business & Technical Expertise:
WinRunner (TSL) and QTP (Visual Basic) with the JAVA add-in (Scripting and Debugging) [Expert Level];
TestDirector – All Modules (Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defects) [Intermediate to Expert Level];
TSL scripting language [Intermediate to Expert Level].
Nonessential but preferred skills:
WinRunner certification preferred, but is not required. C is a plus.


Work conditions:
This assignment requires a permanent move to London, UK. The company provides the work permit in the UK. After a year spent on-site, the candidate will have an option either to stay in London, or join an off-shore part of the development team in a senior technical or managerial role. The company offers very competitive compensation package for successful candidates.