The Department and position

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market applications used by worldwide users covering Market Risk, Front Office and Back Office domaine. The applications are in-house developments with a mix of Microsoft and open source technologies.
Recent years have seen unprecedented evolution to the technical infrastructure available to answer still more challenging regulation. The open position is to join one major investment project to answer to FRTB regulation. To be ready to tackle the regulatory requirement, the Market Risk Information System platform is being redesign to be global and adaptable enabling automated reporting and real-time processing and monitoring. The MArket riSk dAta Intelligence project will transform the Market Risk application landscape as it was known to bring it to the next level.

Main responsibilities

As Test Automation Engineer:
-       Ability to define a testing solution design using cucumber, selenium or java or any other relevant technologies
-       Coordination with application team member (BA and developers) and other tester colleagues on creating the automation test suite.
-       Understand the business process of regulatory reporting capabilities across jurisdictions (SFTR, CFTC, MIFID, HKMA, JSFA, EMIR, etc…)  and its challenges to propose the most efficient solution. Undersand the complexity of the data pipeline and reconciliation challenges.
-       Preparing good documentation of each automated test process.

As Integration Tester:
-       Under the supervision of team head, the candidate should be able to handle the different integration test phases (planning, test functional coverage and adequacy with functional content) and to manage regression test, integration test on functional test campaign.
-       Maintain up to date test libraries (test cases)
-       Handle application testing (manually and automated)
-       Prepare regular reports on test results

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties while maintaining close communication with rest of project/support team.

Qualifications and Profile

Mandatory
·         Knowledge in Jira X-Ray
·         Knowledge in java development and solution design
·         Knowledge on Cucumber/Fitness implementation
Working experience in BDD automation framework
Build tool - Maven/sbt/ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.

Good to have

• Knowledge of Big Data environment (experience with HortonWorks distribution is a plus)
• Experience in Java, C#, Python programming
• Basic understanding of finance and investment banking especially Market Risk.
  
  
  

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Proficient software development life cycle
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities
• §  Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’s skills
• §  Interest in mentoring and guiding junior team members on the path of high quality deliverables.

Degree and above in relevant discipline