Insight Investment is looking for a Principal QA Engineer to join the OTC Order Management team in Manchester. The role combines hands-on testing for the Product team, ensuring the delivery of high quality, performant products, alongside responsibility for setting and leading the technical direction for QA practices across the department. You will work closely with the business and be involved in all aspects of the secure systems development life cycle (S-SDLC) across different business areas within Insight.
Role Responsibilities
- Provide technical advice to other QA Engineers and take the lead in designing new technical standards
- Be responsible for and define learning needs across the function. Understands capabilities required in the medium and long term and implement steps to achieve this
- Take ownership for driving change and innovation, bring relevant teams together and lead continuous improvement within the practice
- Own and implement test automation strategy to reduce manual testing and improve test coverage
- Direct QA strategy based on functional and non-functional requirements
- Evaluate and integrate new testing technologies and methodologies
- Be a spokesperson for our technology brand and engineering practices, both internally to evangelise and energise our teams and externally to attract and compete for talent
- Mentor the wider team to support the Team Lead and help optimise team performance
- Write clear and concise tests, recognizing the need to address technical debt
- Evolve as a subject matter expert with product behaviour and domain understanding
Experience Required
- Proficiency in test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Bruno, Specflow)
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript, Node.js, C#, Java, Cucumber, SQL)
- Hands on experience building test automation frameworks and setting up test harnesses
- Experience working in Agile teams performing iterative development
- Fundamentals and approaches:, TDD/BDD/ATDD, OOP, SOLID principles
- DVCS with Git or Mercurial
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Artifactory)
- Experience with Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
- Confident in collaborating with end users, stakeholders, and team members
- Programming as part of a team and performing peer code reviews
- Comfortable working with complex data on large systems with multiple integration points
Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected]
About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.
Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: www.insightinvestment.com
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What We Do
Insight* is one of Europe’s largest investment managers** responsible for £626.2bn/€757.3bn*** in assets under management (AUM) across fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Based in London, Insight is a specialist asset manager with a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. Our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and supranationals.
Insight's mission is to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility.
Read our mission statement here: www.insightinvestment.com/uk/introducing-insight/our-mission-statement/
We believe responsible investment means helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes and reflecting their priorities. We aim to identify, assess and manage factors that we deem to be financially material, while also reflecting our clients’ sustainability preferences. We were a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006.
For more on Insight’s approach to responsible investment, visit https://www.insightinvestment.com/investing-responsibly
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*Insight is the corporate brand for certain companies operated by Insight Investment Management Limited (IIML).
**IPE, ‘Top 500 Asset Managers’ survey, June 2024. Insight is ranked fifth out of the top 120 European institutional managers by total AUM for external Europe-domiciled institutional clients.
***As at 31 December 2024. AUM are represented by the value of cash securities and other economic exposure managed for clients.
