Your role

Are you passionate about designing, building and deploying robust automation frameworks, that serve our products and services? Do you know how to work effectively with numerous stakeholders, to improve our application landscape? Do you have the ability to stand by agile principles, while delivering sustainable solutions?

We are looking for an expert Software Development Engineer in Test, with very good Java development skills to help the team build robust test automation tools and solutions. Someone, who would like to

• design, develop, enrich and improve the test automation framework and test cases, ensuring consistency on different testing environments, taking responsibility for test management within the team
• ensure the quality, security, reliability, and compliance of our solutions by applying our digital principles and validating both functional and non-functional requirements
• ensure our solutions are monitored for production health, help to resolve incidents, and remediate the root cause of risks and issues
• share knowledge and expertise with colleagues, help with hiring, and contribute regularly to our engineering culture and internal communities
• become a subject matter expert for the applications you are testing, if required, by contributing to its development, implementing new simple features, fixing bugs, helping support teams in root cause analysis and problem resolution
• design, develop, enrich and improve our CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), ensuring that our software solutions are built, packaged, tested, deployed and monitored in an optimal way
• learn new technologies and practices, reuse strategic platforms and standards, evaluate options, and make decisions with long-term sustainability in mind

Your team

You will be part of the Test Automation pod in Qatar, one of several Operational Accounting pods which are working out of Zurich, Manila and Qatar. We are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining a large z/OS mainframe based application portfolio, consisting of batch and online services, which plays a crucial role in our day-to-day operation. This by taking care for the IT management of our customer’s Cash Accounts in Switzerland, parts of EMEA, Hong Kong/Singapore and the US, providing intraday cash positions and cash availability checks for internal customers and by enhancing and harmonizing booking feeds to several internal booking systems. The current mainframe z/OS-centric setup is seeing a fundamental change in the next years, as we’re heading towards a cloud based setup, which gives you the chance to be part of this transition and its challenges from the very first moment and can accompany us on this journey.

Your expertise

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in the development, design, maintenance and integration of test automation frameworks using Cucumber / Selenium on Java stack
• experience in test data preparation using APIs, data generators, mocking of APIs calls
• experience with Test Driven Development, Unit testing, performance, and integration testing frameworks (Junit, TestNG, Mockito, JMeter, MockServer, GreenMail)
• experience in test management (ITQSB certification is a plus)
• strong expertise with Cloud concepts and strategies (Azure certifications is a plus)
• good scripting knowledge in at least one of the following Groovy, Ruby, Python, Linux shell, Powershell
• strong experience with CI/CD implementation, from source code management to production monitoring
• strong communication skills, from making presentations to technical writing