Citi Hiring for eTrading Senior QA Engineer at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

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Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.

FXLM Technology is focused on delivering IT solutions to the FX and Local Markets Sales & Trading business. We have around 400 people with the core of our development effort based in the financial hubs of London, New York and Singapore where we face off directly to the trading desks. Our core strength is providing the technical expertise and software development skills that directly affect the ability of our business to generate revenue and several of our client facing applications such as Citi FX Velocity and FX Click are leaders in their respective markets. We are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction on projects from electronic and algorithmic trading to grid based computation of real-time risk metrics.

The FX eTrading Technology team is looking for a Test analyst based in Chennai, India who will work within the FXLM Technology group specialising in the testing of our FX Algorithmic Pricing and Trading platform. The team are responsible for Front Office facing applications for Pricing and Electronic Trading. Each tester is involved in the complete project lifecycle from requirements analysis and to design and implementation. The candidate will have experience of working in a fast paced environment with extensive analysis and manual testing skills.

The candidate will report into the FX eTrading QA Lead located in London, and interact with local development teams as well as business and technology teams across the world.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Delivering independent testing for at least one major application or project belonging to the FX eTrading stack.
Test case design & development, manual test case execution, reviews of requirements, and other project artifacts.
Implementation and execution of manual testing for functional with consideration of non-functional testing.
Assist the QA lead in the quantification and tracking of manual test coverage, designing testing KPIs, and reporting on corresponding metrics.
Acting as a quality gate before software products are delivered to our clients.
Identifying and highlighting ways to continuously optimise the way in which QA function operates to create an efficient, scalable team.
Work with the business and Production Support to investigate issues and prevent production defects.

Requirements

Experience / Background

8+ years of experience of working within a global functional QA Test team in a complex environment.
Extensive experience in test analysis and manual testing.
Experience of both UI and server side testing.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:
Experience of working within the financial sector or for a major bank or client.
Experience of developing, extending and executing test automation frameworks.
Experience of working in Agile development teams.
Experience with high-volume low-latency highly available IT systems, understanding of their architecture and SLAs.
Business domain knowledge of front office trading in FX, Rates or commodities, e.g. Pricing, Order Execution, and Trading/Auto hedge risk management.

Personal Characteristics

Effective and confident communicator with a strong passion for testing & quality.
Open minded team player, good at building networks and leveraging resources.
High attention to detail.
Responsible, active, persistent and showing initiative.
Proactive, and able to work independently.
Excellent analytical skills.
Result-oriented and client-focused.
The ability to work in a demanding environment.

Skills Required

Strong test analysis and test case creation skills.
Professional experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools for example Atlassian Jira.
Basic Unix / Linux skills.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:
Working knowledge of UI test automation tooling.

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Job Family Group:
Technology

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Job Family:
Technology Quality

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