Quality Lead Engineer

The Role:

Euroclear is modernising their technology and is moving from COBOL to Java and use Event Hub technology (such as Kafka) for integration between the new migrated services and non-migrated legacy CREST system. The Quality Assurance Engineer will join our GBS division.

We are looking for a forward thinking ISEB/ISTQB certified Quality Assurance Engineer with extensive test experience, who is pragmatic, self-starting and who believes testing is a pivotal role in the development of systems that meet the business needs. It is important that the candidate understands T-Shaping and is willing to grow into a T-Shaped Role.

We expect you to work closely with the Scrum Teams to contribute to:

• Work within the squad on CREST transformation programme, focusing on the delivering in an agile fashion, primarily in testing with the ability to help developers.
• Build business and technical knowledge to enable you to contribute to various projects that will be handled by the squad you are in and build / feed into Test strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of the Agile team to deliver migration of legacy application to new event based and service-oriented architecture solution working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Product Owner, Technical Lead, CREST application architects and other stakeholders.
• Deliver and lead a coherent end-to-end Testing solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Establish estimation principles for phases of the migration program.
• Write the Test Strategy and must be able to propose the most optimum Test Approach. Present the approach to key stakeholders. Propose an alternate approach if required.
• Peer Review Test Scenarios / Test Cases and execute the scenarios / test cases.
• Excellent Defect Management Skills. Be able to challenge other teams / perform required analysis where required.

Skillset:

• Strong analytical mind-set with the ability to extract relevant information from documentation, system data, clients and colleagues and analyse the gathered information.
• Derive manual and automated test scenarios and cases from collated information, documented to standards to enable review and execution by other team members as well as enabling traceability.
• Automation Experience using Cucumber, Java and ADS.
• Reviewing of team members deliverables to ensure completeness, suitability and accuracy of test specification and contribution to reporting.
• Identify and escalate risks and issues proposing associated mitigating actions considering the criticality of the domain of the underlying business.
• Ability to facilitate discussion, extracting information to devise test approach and risk/issue mitigation.

Essential Experience:

• Analytical and systems design and development skills in building distributed multi-platform solutions.
• Hands-on Object-Oriented Design and Java programming skills.
• Implementing Event Hub technology, especially Kafka and Kafka streams.
• Database design skills in database technologies such as Oracle. Strong in implementation of Java and SQL queries.
• Very Strong Experience of working in an Agile Environment and working knowledge of BDD and TDD.
• Implementing Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Pipeline (ADS).
• Understanding and experience of risk-based testing.
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.
• Leading testing and defining Strategy