Hybrid Senior Test Engineer

at NEC Corporation

• Job title: Senior Test Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Oracle, SQL, Swift
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Kandanchavadi, India

About the role

• Senior Test Engineer managing testing processes and stakeholder interactions in a hybrid role at NEC Corporation in India. Leading QA initiatives with hands-on experience in financial systems and software testing.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate testing with the vendor Onshore QA Team.
• Escalate issues when necessary.
• Interact with key stakeholders from various areas of the business (e.g., Front Office, Back Office, Middle Office, Sec Lending, FX, and BPP) to analyze requirements and produce test plans.
• Knowledge and Hands-On experience with Corporate Actions, SWIFT Messages, Standards and BaNCS.
• Must be able to meet deadlines and be flexible to manage changing priorities.
• Must be able to work in high-pressured environment.
• Collaborator – willing and able to drive collaborative efforts across the QA organization to improve product quality.
• Willing to support over the weekend / extra efforts to complete testing deliverables as and when needed.
• Coach, lead and mentor other team members.
• Participate in knowledge transfer with the team and business units.
• Create, review, and approve test plans, requirements traceability matrix, test scenarios, test summary reports, scripts, or procedures such as database impacts, software scenarios or usability.
• Work closely with product owners, BA, development, offshore and onshore QA teams in gathering, reviewing, and clarifying business requirements and functionality, BRD, Release Notes and Impact documents.
• Estimate Test Design and Test Execution efforts, assign Complexity and Priority to test cases.
• Analyze project release problems and take corrective action, escalating as needed, to resolve and prevent future production incidents.
• Enforces code branching for the releases.
• Be a gatekeeper of Test Environments (QA & UAT1) and control what versions and when it deployed to these environments.
• Propose Hardware & Software upgrades for QA Tools or necessary improvement methods.
• Identify opportunities to enhance testing efficiency and automation.
• Create SQL queries and utilize SQL Server Management Studio; MS SQL 2008 and 2012 environments.
• Oracle 11G
• Performs all functions as assigned by management
• Experience on Cloud Based Testing

Requirements

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in Computer Science, business or related field
• 8 – 18 years of experience in Quality Assurance, software testing and test automation
• Strong knowledge of Quality Assurance standards and methodology
• Experience in leading/coordinating work with the onshore team
• Knowledge of Fixed Income and Equity markets. FI: US treasury and government agency, major European bonds, corporate bonds, and supranational bonds. Equities: US, major European and Asian stocks.
• Knowledge on SWIFT, B@NCS with hands-on experience on any one of the modules (Corporate Action, Payment, Trade & Settlement and FX Modules)
• Experience working in a rapidly changing and fast paced business environment.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities