Quality Assurance

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Kraków, Małopolskie
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
As a senior QA engineer, you will develop and support the software test automation infrastructure, create automation scripts, execute manual and automated tests, and mentor junior staff. You will collaborate with various teams to enhance quality methodologies and ensure efficient product delivery.
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  • Who we are:

    Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street. Together with State Street’s Middle and Back-office services, Charles River’s cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the State Street Alpha® Platform, the first front-to-back solution in the industry.

    Our vision is to be the world’s leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.

    CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilising next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.

    Industry momentum has seen CRD grow over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years, and we continue to grow. As a digital innovation leader, we invest into our solutions, processes, systems, and talent.

    As a part of our talent growth strategy, CRD Engineering is actively hiring in Poland (Krakow and Gdansk) as we are investing in growing our European presence. Our senior leadership team will be hosting in-person interview panels during our recruiting drive in the late October 2024.

    Summary:

    Work as a senior member of a Scrum team to execute the overall quality plan for one of Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.

    The candidate should be a sharp automation engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a solid software testing foundation. This role requires a talented, detail oriented, enthusiastic individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well engineered, high-quality solutions.

    We are looking for a strong software engineer to build out the next generation of our software test automation infrastructure as part of our Quality Assurance Infrastructure team. The candidate will be responsible for developing, delivering and supporting the software infrastructure that enables automated product validation. This position provides services for planning and the execution of central automated regression runs for all product departments. In addition, this candidate is responsible for maintaining and expanding the labs which host both automated and manual testing as well as conducting staging and certification of the product media during the ship-stage of a release.

    Financial services industry experience is preferred.

    Responsibilities:

    • Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
    • Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity
    • Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
    • Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence
    • Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
    • Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
    • Participate in “testathon” activities as required by releases
    • Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts.

    Qualifications:

    Education:

    B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.

    What we are looking

    • 5 - 10 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment
    • Demonstrated experience programming with C#, SQL and shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash
    • Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
    • Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices
    • Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.

    Nice to Have

    • Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
    • Demonstrated experience implementing automation tests with Silk4Net strongly preferred
    • Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
    • Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications

    Supervisory Responsibility:

    ☒ Individual Contributor ☐ Team Lead ☐ Manager of Managers

    Travel:

    May be required on a limited basis.

    We offer
     

    • Permanent contract of employment from day one
    • Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off)
    • Gold medical package for employees and their families (partner and children)
    • Premium life insurance package and private pension plan
    • Employee savings plan
    • MyBenefit Cafeteria benefits platform including Multisport Card
    • Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs
    • Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
    • Variety of well-being programs including Employee Assistance Program
    • Technical or leadership career pathway

    #CRDPoland

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The Company
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39,782 Employees
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What We Do

At State Street, we partner with institutional investors all over the world to provide comprehensive financial services, including investment management, investment research and trading, and investment servicing. Whether you are an asset manager, asset owner, alternative asset manager, insurance company, pension fund or official institution, you can rely on us to be focused on your challenges. We are committed to doing what it takes to help you perform better — now and in the future

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