QA Engineer

The purpose of this role will be to design and implement an appropriate test automation framework, build, and maintain test automation solutions, and contribute to the wider automation strategy. The incoming Test Automation Engineer will also as well as be the advocate for quality within the team and broader organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement an appropriate test automation framework and help develop the wider automation strategy in partnership with the Software Engineering Leadership team
• Write, design, and execute well-structured automated tests that adhere to industry best practice.
• Aim to achieve high test coverage for critical features of the product.
• Work closely with the engineering team to build a quality first mindset and ensure a high quality standard from the start.
• Be an advocate for quality and seek to implement software quality best practices with the team and broader organization.
• Meticulously document testing processes, procedures, and test cases.
• Raise potential technical issues early for the engineering team to consider in the build.
• Consider and implemented performance testing to confirm system performance, resilience, and capacity requirements.
• Log and track defects on the company’s defect tracking system.
• Review project progress and feedback honest status reports to the team and stakeholders.
• Be able to meet tight deadlines whilst adhering to industry standards in an FCA regulated environment inclusive of complying and responding to internal/external audits

Required Skills and Experience

• Previous QA Automation experience operating within the Financial Services or FinTech industry
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and principles
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing test automation with proficiency in writing code-based solutions.
• Knowledge of existing QA/testing tools, working in React / .NET.
• Awareness of test automation best practices.
• Experience of using JIRA and Zephyr for creating test cases.
• ISTQB qualified.
• Ability to track key quality metrics, produce M.I, and communicate findings regularly to stakeholders.
• Computer Science / IT degree or equivalent experience

Desired Skills & Experience

• Previous QA Automation experience within the FinTech industry
• Certification in Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster, Agile Certified Practitioner).
• Knowledge of financial markets, especially within the Equity and Fixed income asset classes
• Experience of API testing
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server

Benefits

• Competitive salary inclusive of discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• Work Abroad Policy for up to 15 days per year
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional well-being day
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Pension scheme up to 10% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private health care via BUPA
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Variety of travel to work schemes

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.

The Company

Winterflood Business Services (WBS) is a business to business (B2B) platform provider whose award-winning service has seen us grow to over £15bn AUA with an expanding client list. Our highly skilled and experienced team is dedicated to providing the standards our clients rightly demand.

Our aim is to help solve client problems and ease their regulatory and administrative burden with secure, integrated, and bespoke end-to-end solutions to achieve their investment objectives. Execution quality and excellent service are at the core of our business, all set out in our service level agreements for full transparency.

The WBS service is provided through our EOS platform, which is a proprietary system developed by our in-house development team. EOS is built using the latest technologies and is based on micro-service architecture, making the platform easy to scale and deploy new functionality. We are also market innovators, capable of recognising unfilled needs and developing products to suit our customers’ needs and changing regulatory requirements.

We became a separate division of Winterflood Securities in 2010, in response to demand from clients who were looking for ‘whole of market access and ‘custody services’. Our strategy remains to continue to invest in people, process, and technology to allow us to scale for the growth in our existing business, as well as taking on new clients