Our services enable our clients to provide best-in-class wealth management solutions to financial advisers, end-investors and the workplace. We pride ourselves on creating solutions that are flexible, transparent and scalable, reflecting the latest market, demographic and regulatory trends worldwide.
FNZ has experienced exceptional growth in the past decade, both in terms of assets-under-administration and also through the substantial expansion of our international footprint.
Today, we are responsible for over 1.5 trillion in assets-under-administration, held by around 20 million customers of some of the worlds largest financial institutions, including Aviva, Barclays, BNZ, Generali, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, National Australia Bank (NAB), Quilter, Santander, UOB, Vanguard, and Zurich.
In total, FNZ partners with over 150 financial institutions across Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and North America and we employ around 4, 000 people worldwide.
The company is owned by a combination of CDPQ-Generation, the unique sustainable equity partnership and FNZ employee shareholders.
Role Description
Automated Tester will join a dynamic development team working on cutting edge emerging technologies and integrating them into traditional finance systems. They will create and maintain automated test plans, support the development of testing infrastructure, and work with developer and other project team members to produce world class software. The successful candidate will have enthusiasm for troubleshooting, analysing and resolving complex problems, and must demonstrate strong problem solving and communications skills.
Specific Role Responsibilities
Automated Testing
- Plan and prioritise all incoming testing. Provide detailed and accurate test estimates. Create and maintain testing data and records.
- Understand and analyse business requirements to enable the design of detailed test requirements for traditional and blockchain based solutions
- Establish functional and automated test objectives, acceptance criteria, workload profiles and use case scenarios
- Document and report issues arising from testing in a timely manner and manage their resolution and tracking
- Issue testing status and completion reports to project teams and clients where necessary
- Provide estimates of testing effort to the Test, Delivery or Project Manager as required
- Solve complex problems and provide clear and concise reports with recommendations
- Work closely with development teams, architects and engineers to test their products under load and make recommendations to improve solution performance, reliability and stability
- Promote the testing team both internally and externally. Ensure that creative solutions, robust testing infrastructure, tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the FNZ development community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients; and
- Collaborate with other developers and testers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
- Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
- Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.
- Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods best suited to FNZ;
- Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers; and
- Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.
Primary requirements
- First class bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or equivalent experience;
- 3+ years of experience using automated testing test approaches and tools (including use of Cucumber) and conducting automated testing;
- Experience with UI testing, using tools such as Selenium
- Experience managing automated testing pipeline and reporting testing results;
- Experience with the Java programming language;
- Strong self-driven collaborator with ability to work in diverse teams;
- Proven data analysis and problem solving skills; and
- Participated in end-end deliveries of software products.
- Experience testing the following types of applications: Windows Software, Database applications, websites, mobile applications;
- Experience testing blockchain or distributed ledger technology solutions;
- Experience working in an agile environment;
- Experience with JavaScript, JSON or React programming languages;
- Experience with public cloud (Google Cloud or AWS);
- Experience with Linux (Unix) commands and scripting languages;
- Familiar with Azure DevOps & Agile development tools (including Jira);
- Familiarity with financial products and markets; and
- Experience testing in AWS and working with AWS Lambda Functions.
