Test Automation Engineer, Rates E-Trading

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Job Description – Test Automation Engineer, Rates E-Trading

Description:

A successful candidate will solve interesting technical challenges whilst developing solutions that have a measurable impact to enable automation of server-side components and enable QA efficiencies. The candidate will work closely with developers, automation, and manual QA team members to implement strategies and procedures to deliver high quality test automation solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop common, reusable automation framework, server-side components and services that execute against the automation strategy and drive future improvements.
• Partner with multiple technology and automation teams to understand the flow, evolve automation architecture roadmap and deliver timely solutions to support the automation efforts.
• Evaluate, design, implement and integrate automated testing technologies for backend and component testing and evolve them as the technology changes.
• Develop automated testing strategies that can run in a CI/CD environment
• Set up an integration testing framework with mock endpoints so that apps can be quickly validated.
• Assist in planning, creation and control of test environments and test data.
• Suggest policies and procedures for test code (Unit Tests & Integration Tests)
• Enhance and extend existing test automation frameworks

Qualifications:

Technical:

• Proficiency in Java (5+ years of experience) with demonstrable success in developing high performance, multi-threaded applications.
• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object-orientated programming
• Hands-on experience functional/manual and automated testing of micro-service based applications (is a plus).
• Experience/knowledge about RUST Programming language(is a plus)
• Proven ability to develop clean, testable code.
• Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Github/Git/Bitbucket, Gradle and CI/CD tools, e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity and Urban Code Deploy.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Hands on experience with Testing framework such as Cucumber (BDD)
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, e.g. Antifactory, Docker and OpenShift.
• Experience with at least one mocking framework such as easyMock or Mockito.
• 3+ years hands on experience in design, implementation, and maintenance of server-side automated testing solutions.
• Experience with project management software such as JIRA, Zephyr.
• Experience in BDD testing frameworks like Cucumber or SpecFlow
• Experience with automation of Desktop based apps is a plus
• Experience with API automation using Rest Assured, Postman
• Experience with Performance testing and  tools like JMeter ,will be a plus.
• Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols preferred.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong passion for technology, especially Java, with a keen interest in driving adoption of new technologies and tools.
• Self-motivated individual and with ability to manage own work slate.
• Excellent collaborative skills; ability to work with others and contribute to global projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-pace environment; flexible and able to deliver results in the required timeframe

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology or similar)

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