Lead QA Engineer

Lead QA Engineer

Fitch Technology is currently seeking a Lead Engineer based out of our Manchester office.

We are in search of a Lead Engineer to elevate the quality assurance processes for our Fitch Ratings Workflow Analytical applications. This role entails close collaboration with the systems supporting the Fitch Ratings operations and analytical communities. The position offers a unique opportunity to gain a profound understanding of the business domain and to ensure the highest standards of system and data quality for Fitch Ratings.

What We Offer:

• Opportunity for career growth and advancement
• Access to the latest technologies
• Ability to contribute to the ongoing evolution and innovation of Fitch Technology's working methodologies
• An open and collaborative atmosphere where new ideas are welcomed and encouraged

We’ll Count on You To:

• Serve as the Lead Testing Engineer on an agile squad, Mentor other engineers
• Contribute to and develop sophisticated automation frameworks that are efficient, flexible, and reusable in Selenium
• Integrate test case execution and reporting within the CI/CD pipeline to align with the DevOps strategy, criteria, requirements, and user stories
• Work with cross-functional teams including business analysts, developers, and users to build and refine test strategies for your team as well as to ensure integrity of dependent systems
• Influence the team to design and build for testability
• Implement BDD practices and frameworks to enhance test automation and acceptance criteria
• Work in the SDET capacity to automate early in conjunction with other engineer’s efforts to build systems.

What You Need to Have:

• 8+ years of experience with automation testing, recent experience with Selenium and translating requirements into test cases using Selenium Java or Python
• 4+ years integrating automated testing with DevOps tools (Bamboo/Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket) and working in Scrum-based Agile teams
• 4+ years of visual/UI testing and Rest Assured / Open API testing
• Experience testing event-driven services, message queues, and event brokers (Kafka)
• Proficient in performance testing tools (JMeter, K6, Neoload, LoadRunner)
• Skilled in writing SQL/NoSQL queries for data verification
• In-depth knowledge of Selenium WebDriver and DB testing with SQL
• Solid understanding of BDD concepts, acceptance criteria and testing
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to deliver high quality results in a complex environment by driving initiatives forward.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Python code for testing and use of Python frameworks (Pandas, Numpy, Requests)
• Exposure to Code quality metrics, and shift-left principles
• Experience testing container resiliency (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience designing large end to end performance scenarios
• Experience adding performance validation to CI pipelines
• Exposure to the financial industry domain and data platforms (data warehouses, data lakes)

Why Fitch?

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone.

Every team member is essential to our business and each perspective is critical to our success. We embrace a diverse culture that encourages a free exchange of ideas, guaranteeing your voice will be heard and your work will have an impact, regardless of seniority.

We are building incredible things at Fitch and we invite you to join us on our journey.

For more information please visit our websites:  

www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com | www.CreditSights.com

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

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