Senior Test Automation Engineer

Technology London, England Full-time Company Description

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

The Role

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our European Regulatory Operations Scrum team. The Senior Test Automation Engineer will have a background in trading or investment banking domain and will be working within the scrum team to design and run automated tests and to help deliver value via features/user stories each sprint.

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Designing test suites for automation to validate functional and non functional requirements
• Designing test automation framework in Java, Selenium and creating Automation scripts for regression
• Maintaining and improving existing regression test suites
• Executing automated and manual test cases
• Leading offshore test team members on feature/project delivery
• Keeping up to date with new developments and strategies within their area and the general IT marketplace
• Offering ideas, advice, and support regarding improvement initiatives within the team
• Doing what is necessary to ensure all team tasks are completed on schedule
• Working closely with Product Owners, Developers and Client Support staff

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years' experience in automated testing and creating test automation framework
• 2+ years' experience in Financial Services
• Ability to analyze and develop test cases for trading applications
• Ability to build on trading system knowledge and provide inputs to the team
• Experience with Java, C# and other object oriented programming languages to create/modify automation framework
• Experience testing FIX APIs
• Hands on experience working on the Cucumber framework for behavior driven development (BDD) to automate software testing
• Experience with Selenium is a plus
• SQL knowledge with SQL Server or Oracle experience
• Experience working with offshore teams
• Exposure to systems developed on various platforms (Windows and Linux)
• ISEB/ISTQB certification to at least Foundation level is a plus
• Agile Ways of Working, preferably SAFe framework

What You Can Expect from Us

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days
• Reward for your service: We offer a two week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a "Share Incentive" plan
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying.