Junior QA Automation Engineer

At HedgeServ, we’re redefining what’s possible in fund administration. With more than $700 billion in assets under administration, we partner with the world’s most forward-thinking investment managers – across private equity, private credit, endowments, hedge funds and more – to deliver seamless, tech-enabled solutions that drive performance.

Our proprietary platform, enhanced by machine learning and robotic process automation, gives clients real-time insights and unmatched control over their operations. Alongside our technology, we offer award-winning service through our team-based approach -- led by a deeply experienced team of industry experts. Our solutions span the full investment lifecycle, including fund accounting, middle office, risk, compliance, tax, and investor services.

We’re a future-focused company, empowering our people through a robust career development framework, clear career trajectories with structured learning paths, training, and progression plans. We invest in leadership development and in our collaborative culture, creating space for talent to grow. Our corporate values – Relationships, Support, Innovation, and Expertise – create a sense of shared purpose and belonging, and we recognize our employees sit at the core of our success. We continue to innovate and evolve through our employees, working together to achieve our shared vision and mission.

HedgeServ supports employees through a variety of offerings, including remote and hybrid working arrangements, and fully paid comprehensive health and well-being benefits. We’ve been recognized as an employer of choice, earning a top 100 workplaces designation.

Founded in 2008, HedgeServ has grown into a global organization with over 2,000 experts across the globe, with offices in the United States, Grand Cayman, Ireland, Poland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, the Philippines, and Australia. We’ve earned numerous accolades, including Top Overall Administrator, along with #1 rankings for providing alternative asset services in Accounting, Technology, Client Service, Investor Services, Alternative Fund Expertise, Reporting, and Regulatory Expertise.

Role Overview:
As a QA Automation Engineer, you will work on a development team that builds security-master subsystems for HedgeServ that model financial securities, maintain accurate up-to-date securities data, integrate with numerous external data vendors, and feed data to applications serving internal and external clients. You will develop and maintain automated test suites to comprehensively test real-world, end-to-end business scenarios, collaborating with other engineers to ensure delivery of robust, high-quality software. This is a software engineering role focused on solving problems through test development, architecture, process, and interpretability.

A successful Junior QA Automation Engineer is a:

• Strong problem solver who can reason and communicate about complex problems and systems.

• Accountable team member who prioritizes stakeholder value and technical excellence.

• Curious, open-minded engineer who enjoys learning and working with new technologies, practices, and ideas.

About the Team:
The Security Master Development team is based out of the US and Sofia, BG and consists of 5-10 engineers working closely with business analysts and stakeholders to develop a comprehensive security master solution serving all HedgeServ clients. We have strong technical proficiency in python backend-development, distributed service architectures, databases, and AWS. We have strong business proficiency in the modeling of financial instruments including listed instruments, derivatives, swaps, and syndicated credit and in the products offered by external data vendors like Bloomberg, Refinitiv, S&P Global and more.

Responsibilities of a Junior QA Automation Engineer:

• Work with business stakeholders to develop testing requirements and test plans for new features.

• Create and extend automated test scenarios using Python, Pytest, Playwright, and Gherkin Behavior-Driven-Development tools.

• Triage and troubleshoot regressions in the automated test scenarios and collaborate with team members on solutions.

• Implement improvements to testing methodologies to improve accuracy, performance, and coverage of regression tests.

• Design and maintain test fixtures, tools and utilities to extend the team's testing capabilities.

Minimum Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience writing Python code.

• 1+ years of experience with test-driven-development (TDD) or behavior-driven-development (BDD).

• Experience using Web UI test/automation frameworks such as Playwright or Selenium.

• Experience with Git.

Nice to have:

• Degree in computer science or equivalent.

• Familiarity with AWS and running software in the cloud.

• Familiarity with writing basic queries for SQL and/or MongoDB databases.

• Familiarity with continuous integration technologies like AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, or Github Actions.

The opportunity offers: 

• Strong and resourceful company,  HedgeServ is a well-established corporation with $700+ billons asset under administration and more than 2000 employees worldwide, in 10+ worldwide office locations. Yet the development team is divided into independent, small, agile and cohesive teams. 

• Working with collaborative team on challenging problems – due to the complex nature of the product, new technical and algorithmic challenges occur every day. The successful candidate will be part of a strong united team that has open communication and works together to solve problems and share knowledge. 

• Open communication – company respects everyone’s opinion and it encourages contribution of ideas and participation in decision making.

• Quality code – we strongly believe in testing the code. We do unit, integration and acceptance testing, following the best development practices. We strive for great quality and performance. Business is supportive of development quality and allow capacity for refactoring, improvement and innovation. 

• Innovations in the solutions – having the opportunity to translate requirements into code, going through the whole development cycle. This will include improving a highly profitable financial application, as well as working on green field innovative projects. 

• Recognition & Development - HedgeServ invests in its employees with many company-wide trainings, mentoring programs, sponsoring conference attendances, supporting personal growth, giving access to online courses and books. 

• Professional growth– HedgeServ is a big company, providing opportunities for growth. Good work and performance are recognized and valued; career progression and promotions are based on merit. 

Benefits:

• Attractive compensation package including extensive set of benefits, such as platinum health insurance, sport membership, food vouchers, employee assistance program, etc. 

• 25 vacation days per year. 

• Additional vacation days with 1 added for every year in the company (up to 3 additional days). 

• Flexibility in working hours and locations (WFH available). 

• Professional environment with great development opportunities. 

• Tuition reimbursement program (personal budget up to 1000 EUR).