About Marex
Marex Group plc is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. It listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in April 2024. With more than 35 offices in Europe, US and APAC, it has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
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Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
The QA Automation Engineer proactively assists the Finance development team with increasing the quality of the systems they build and maintain. Working with developers and stakeholders, the QA strives to improve system reliability, accelerate change throughput, shift-left and automate quality control, ensure fulfilment of business requirements, and prevent regression. Knowledge of PeopleSoft applications and specifically Financials and accounting practises will be an advantage.
Responsibilities:
• Know our products by verifying that all product pieces and components are functioning and meets quality standards.
• Detecting and investigating defects and liaising with developers through to resolution.
• Writing, executing, and maintaining automation test scripts. Prioritise and plan testing activities, tighten quality.
• Manual testing within Finance – Peoplesoft. Support our Manual testing of Peoplesoft application within Finance & Investigate Automation approach.
• Support the QA team maintaining a wiki and helping to develop a comprehensive knowledge base of applications, known current and previous defects and testing procedures for those applications which we shared and used by QA.
• Contributing to development standups and SCRUM ceremonies, working with developers to define testable acceptance criteria.
• Liaising with stakeholders, assisting with requirements elicitation, and providing regular updates and product demonstrations.
• Collaborate with Support assisting with resolution of support issues where appropriate.
• Convert the QA function by keeping abreast of QA trends within the software industry, proposing and implementing new ideas and tools to improve our QA processes.
Skills and Experience:
• Strong understanding of financial markets
o Experience with engaging with trading desks and Quant teams
• Track history of using Postman or Swagger for API testing
• JIRA, XRAY, WIKI, Bitbucket cloud, AWS, Splunk, Grafana all beneficial.
• Experience with using SQL Management Studio and MongoDB to query databases, as well as using data for test purposes.
• Understanding of software diagnostic tools and testing methods (automation, smoke, functionality, usability, performance, regression, and user acceptance).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to work across our company global teams.
• Experience working closely with development teams.
• Agile and scrum development methodologies.
• Demonstrable use of initiative.
• Attention to detail and a passion for driving up the quality of software.
• Creating/maintaining automation framework
o Experience with TypeScript, Python and Playwright
If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!
Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.
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What We Do
We are a diversified global financial services platform, connecting clients to global energy, metals, agricultural and financial markets. Across our businesses we provide critical high value-add services in Market Making, Execution and Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions, Price Discovery and Data & Advisory.
We have a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 38 million trades and clearing over 193 million contracts in 2021.
The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.
Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 22 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,100 employees across Europe, Asia and America.
State-of-the-art electronic and voice broking services facilitate all types of trading strategies. This is backed by decades of experience, with Marex emphasising intellectual knowledge and insight, alongside access to extensive data sets and the latest analytical tools.
In addition to its core operations, Marex's scale and expertise in commodity derivatives, as well as physical products, has enabled it to respond to client demand and offer services for financial futures & options and foreign exchange.
