The company:

The company provides the international financial community with a complete range of software solutions covering Trading, Order Management, Risk Management, Order Routing Network, Market Data and Dedicated Services. The company has 30 offices worldwide and employs more than 1400 people. It has over 3,500 clients including 500 international financial institutions. In 2007, the company turnover was €203M. The company is quoted on Eurolist.

Objective:

Part of the company is located in the City of London, employs 170 people and covers the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa and the Nordics. Keen on quality of products and services, and driven by its development in a competitive environment, the company now requires a new QA Testing Engineer to work in the Development Team to accompany the current client growth.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will become a member of the development team located in London, participating in improving our software and our technical support for other teams working essentially in Europe, US and Asia.
Required qualities include good communication (both oral and written) skills, strong. ability to work with different teams and to make the link between them. To be qualified, the candidate should possess a degree in Computer Science or similar discipline together with previous working experience in an IT company.
Validate and test the company Trading Products.
Define test data and scenarios, execute test script and produce acceptance test reports.
Maintain test environments.
Qualify and troubleshoot bugs.
Report/co-ordinate and follow-up software defects until final delivery to customer UAT environment.

Required Skills:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

Financial market and front-office business knowledge.
Good organisation skills.
Excellent communication skills.
Knowledge of the company products a plus.
Operating systems: UNIX, NT.  Oracle a plus.