Senior QA Automation Engineer

Project description Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments. Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to: • Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders • Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment • Accelerated exposure and responsibility • Global career development opportunities • Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles • A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance Responsibilities • - Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams. - Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate - Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning. - Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability. - Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards. - Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing - Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.  - Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners. SKILLS Must have • Core Skills: • Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing • Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar) • Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build/release workflows • Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development • SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification Domain Experience: • Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms is strongly preferred • Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an asset • Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plus Nice to have • AWS cloud testing experience • Performance and load testing exposure