Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with the business/developers/BAs at concept stage to determine testing strategy and coverage
• Actively participate in sprint planning sessions and ensure requirements are clear and complete
• Provide accurate estimation for sprint planning
• Create test cases, BDD specifications and data  (manual and automated)
• Ensure that adequate test coverage is provided
• Assess the impact and risks of new functionality introduced into the system and plan regression testing and/or highlight any potential issues
• Participate in team stand ups
• Actively implement Test Automation where possible and ensure that it is up to a certain standard
• Understand and Maintain the existing test automation suite where required
• Execute test scripts and analyze and record results
• Identify defects/ anomalies and investigate their cause. Document and track these defects.
• Recommend improvements or corrections to developers or system analysts 
• Review log files and reports to identify program processing errors and possible improvements
• Actively seek to gain and improve knowledge of systems and functionality
• Train and Mentor new members of the QA team
• Conduct Peer reviews of test artifacts from coverage and correctness perspective
• Transfer system and functional knowledge to team members and other QAs as required
• Monitor multiple projects/software changes from concept to release and confirm correct behavior after release to live
• Building Testing Efficiencies within the team
• Understand and adhere to the GAIN Capital Change Request process
• Understand and adhere to the GAIN Capital QA processes
• Be responsible for all phases of testing across various test environments
• Coordinate with Service Delivery teams to ensure the timely and correct release of software to live
• Contribute towards improving the QA process and quality standards across the organization
• Evaluate testing tools and software that can be implemented to aid QA and maximize testing coverage
• Actively participate in knowledge sharing and team building exercises within the QA organization

Skills, Knowledge & Experience Required

Required:

• Good knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Good knowledge of QA practices and processes
• Experience of testing web and client-server applications
• Experience working in an Agile environment and BDD
• Experience in testing financial applications especially Trading platforms and services and reporting solutions
• Experience working in all phases of software testing right from requirements analysis up until QA/UAT sign off and release to live
• Understanding of Programming fundamentals
• Basic SQL skills including joins
• Experience in test automation using a BDD tool
• Experience in building, deploying and releasing software by working with developers
• Experience working with version control, build & deployment and test management tools preferably  Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Jira
• Experience testing Webservices and Windows services

Desired:

• Business/Financial knowledge
• Experience in debugging software
• Experience in reviewing application code
• Experience in building tools and utilities for automating testing tasks

Qualifications Required

Required:

• A degree in Computer Science or related IT experience