Automation Engineer

As a Software Automation Engineer and a member of a team of elite, highly skilled forward-thinking, passionate software engineers working on product development in an agile and collaborative environment, you will work with cutting-edge technologies and learn how these technologies are applied in the global capital markets. In addition to the design and development work, you will also gain exposure to the financial services industry. You will take initiative and collaborate extensively with the stakeholders and within the development team to achieve ambitious goals. This is an exciting opportunity to become a critical part of a fast-growing, global organization, at what is arguably the most exciting time in the rapid evolution of our company.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable, and maintainable automated regression suites & test harnesses
• Use tools and frameworks to build automation scripts with quality code to simplify testing scenarios
• Design and develop test plans, and test cases based on functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams
• Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria
• Reviews and approves the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results, and defect descriptions. Ensures standard methodologies are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
• Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, and Database testing requirements.

What Were Looking For

• 3+ Years of experience in software testing or development with a deep understanding of testing, coding, and debugging procedures
• Experience in programming using C#/JavaScript or other languages
• Experience in the design and development of automated tests using automation tools (e.g. Selenium) across the application layers (UI/Service/Data layers)
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases, Exploratory Testing, refactoring and extending test automation/performance frameworks and suites as necessary
• Experience working with SOAP and REST service and understanding of SOA architecture
• Experience in testing using Git, CI, DevOps, rolling deployment/upgrade model
• Experience with Test Data Management and mapping automated test code coverage

Benefits

• Cash incentive plan
• Team of great professionals
• Reimbursement of your Wellbeing and Education activities
• Days off for charity/volunteering
• 4 additional Wellbeing days in year
• Additional day off on birthday and work anniversary
• Paid parental leave of 26 weeks for all parents
• 10 days of fully paid sick leaves
• Options to work from home
• Remote recruitment and onboarding process
• Chillout & fun room at the office (table tennis, table football, Xbox, billiards)
• Attractive benefits package (private health care, life insurance, MultiSport card)
• Fruit days, Coffee, tea, chocolate at the office

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:EEO.Compliance@spglobal.comand your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdfdescribes discrimination protections under federal law.

20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH203 - Entry Professional (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning)

Job ID: 280833

Posted On: 2023-05-02

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa