We
are looking for a highly motivated professional who is ready to take on
the challenges of working in a fast-paced, world class environment and
ready to own the quality of mission critical trading software that
processes millions of transactions and trillions of dollars on a daily
basis. The individual will assist in defining the departments Test
Governance model and have specific ownership of key functional Testing
activities. The individual will partner with development, business and
support teams to build an understanding of the varied and complex
business functionality supported by the financial trading systems.
Job Background/context:
The
global Foreign Exchange business operates on a twenty-four hour basis,
covering trading centers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pac. The FX
Essential Services department provides testing services for Electronic
internal sales & trading systems. Our mission is to deliver world
class quality assurance to the business and provide ongoing support to
technology and business users. This is a hands-on role that will offer
exposure to the full testing cycle, whilst working closely with the
front office business and development teams across the globe. In this
role you will have the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing team
that is seeking to use leading-edge technology to automate and
streamline the Testing process. We are looking for a creative problem
solver, who can drive innovation in the Testing process.
Key Responsibilities
The role will include, but not limited to the following
- Work directly with key Business stakeholders to
develop a deep understating of the Velocity product how it is used, and
how to transfer this back into the QA process.
- Responsible for line management, include performance and career development, of QA team.
- Assist in defining and implementing process and practices for Test Governance with FX Essential Services
- Coach project teams on Testing best practice throughout the lifecycle
- Foster a spirit of innovation and collaboration in regards to Testing
- Collaborate and partner closely with program
managers, development leads, test leads and production support teams to
ensure that software is tested to highest quality.
- Playing an active role in re-shaping the way that UAT is managed.
Key Relationships:
Partner
with technology teams across FXLM and the wider Citi technology group
to drive quality across the software development life cycle.
Development Value:
The
candidate has the opportunity to be a major contributor to the FX
business in succeeding in their goals of increasing revenue, while
decreasing system errors and outages. This also gives the candidate an
opportunity to work with bright, innovative individuals both on the
business and technology side and the successful candidate will make a
significant difference to FX business performance. As this is also in
support of a global business, the candidates will be exposed to the
internal workings of a global operations and appreciate the challenges
and complexity of a global system environment.
The successful candidate will also face the following challenges:
- This challenging role will require the candidate
to be involved in the full project lifecycle, to ensure that new
developments provide the anticipated functionality, and to ensure
current functionality is unaffected.
- The production of metrics surrounding the quality
of software, trend analysis of the underlying causes, and
implementation of remedial actions
- The role provides opportunity to work on a range
of projects, normally with several tasks ongoing at any one time. The
work will provide the candidate with numerous chances to deliver
concrete business benefits.
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