SimCorp - Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Application Testing

<p><p><b>What Makes Us : </b><br/><br/> Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology.<br/><br/> If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!.<br/><br/> At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous.<br/><br/> Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success.<br/><br/> We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.<br/><br/> If you like what were saying, keep reading!.<br/><br/> <b>WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US :</b><br/><br/> You will be a part of the team who develops the SimCorp Client Reporting software suite, part of the Data Communications offer.<br/><br/> SimCorp Client Reporting is a best-in-class client communications and client reporting solution used by private wealth and asset management firms to increase operational efficiency, enhance client service and enrich client experience.<br/><br/> SimCorp Client Reporting automates the business processes that generate personalized client reports, pitchbooks, client meeting packs and other client communications.<br/><br/> <b>What You Will Be Responsible For :</b><br/><br/> As a Software engineer specializing in Quality Assurance, you will work within an agile development team to deliver enhancements to existing functionality, new features and to identify continuous improvements to the work processes.<br/><br/> You will be involved in all phases of the development process, and your tasks will include requirements (use case) review, planning and writing test specifications, test execution, test automation and support.<br/><br/> <b>What we require:</b><br/><br/> - At least 5 years experience in a full-time testing role working on complex systems (both web-based and desktop applications)<br/><br/></p><p> - Experience of manual functional testing<br/><br/></p><p> - Comprehensive understanding of testing methodologies, principles, levels, types and techniques<br/><br/></p><p> - Good test design skills and product documentation, checklists, test cases, test suites creation, functional areas identificatio, user stories, specifications.</p><p><br/></p><p> - Experience with SQL, ability to write basic scripts to create and manipulate data<br/><br/></p><p> - Experience with QA tools (e.g., Playwright, Postman) and API testing<br/><br/></p><p> - Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines client server architecture<br/><br/></p><p> - Practical experience with automation frameworks or scripting<br/><br/></p><p> - Good understanding of the development life cycle<br/><br/></p><p> - High self-organization skills<br/><br/></p><p> - Investment and effective communication skills<br/><br/></p><p> - Demonstrated ability to enhance QA processes and establish quality guidelines<br/><br/></p><p> - Experience working in Agile teams with a pragmatic, quality-focused mindset<br/><br/></p><p> - Fluent in English language (verbal and written).<br/><br/> <b>What is nice to have :</b><br/><br/> - Experience with retrofitting automated tests to legacy systems<br/><br/></p><p> - Experience with C# or other programming languages<br/><br/></p><p> - Programming experience<br/><br/></p><p> - Experience with reporting systems.<br/><br/> <b>Benefits :</b><br/><br/>- Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement.<br/><br/>- However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more.<br/><br/>- Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model.<br/><br/>- Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.<br/><br/>- Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.<br/></p><br/></p> (ref:hirist.tech)