Senior QA Engineer - Madrid, España - Pico

Descripción

Who We Are

Pico provides agile and transparent technology solutions to the Financial Markets community including infrastructure hosting, network connectivity, market data, Corvil analytics, and cloud services giving your organization the freedom to move fast.

As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets.

From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Dublin, Madrid, Krakow, Singapore and Tokyo


The Role

PICO is expanding its test engineering team which is responsible for ensuring the quality of its Big Data Platform and real-time analysis products.

This team delivers innovative, automated testing solutions to verify the accuracy, performance, functionality, stress, resilience and use case validation of the company's products.

Working from our Madrid office you will be part of a collaborative and highly technical QA team, which is passionate about quality.

Operating in an agile environment, you will be responsible for designing comprehensive functional and system testing strategies that ensure our industry leading product is high quality.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the quality of industry leading financial and enterprise core product features in all stages of the product life cycle, from requirements analysis, to test design and implementation
• Working within a crossfunctional team following agile software development methodologies to test new product features
• Implementing functional and system test strategies that are costeffective and follow QA best practice
• Executing manual and automation tests covering all QA cycles: functional, regression, performance and system testing.
• Identifying product defects, logging them in the system and verifying the fixes.
• Tracking test progress, reporting results, forecasting areas of risk and providing mitigation plans
• Using scripting and programing skills to automate tests using python and selenium

Requirements:

• Third Level Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related field
• 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Strong scripting/ programming skills using Python or similar and selenium webdriver
• Detailed knowledge of manual and automated testing best practice
• Good working knowledge of IP networking protocols and systems
• Ease with Linux/Unix OSes
• Excellent problemsolving, debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written Englishlanguage communication skills
• Selfmotivated, highly enthusiastic team player with strong analytical skills
• Results oriented, works to achieve high levels of personal and organizational performance to meet or exceed objectives.

Desirable

• Experience working with big data related technologies such as Kafka, Druid, Hive, Hadoop and Spark Applications
• Industry certifications such as ISTQB, CCNA, CCNP highly desirable
• Experience developing test automation frameworks
• Familiarity with technologies such as LDAP or Active Directory