Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
The successful candidate will be able to work with stakeholders in the business as well as technical project managers and team leads to analyze requirements, deliver projects on time, and use a disciplined approach towards software development. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a small, global team working on an enterprise build out of a strategic product.
contribute to the development of reference data solutions
- perform work estimation for QA activities; monitor the progress of testing activities within the team and regularly inform the stakeholders about the current status; escalate issues quickly and to the right people in order to achieve full transparency of the process
- develop and implement Test Strategy and Test Planning to support software development process applying best QA practices in the project
- help to develop and maintain continuous integration, automated system tests and test packs as well as system front-to-back testing suites
- work closely with the Product Owners and other stakeholders to analyze stories and help creating test cases and testing scenarios
- ensure that requirements and quality standards are recognized, understood and maintained
- monitor and evaluate testing practices and tools to improve the testing process and quality of test results
- ensure processes conform to in-house policies and procedures as well as other applicable regulations and guidelines
- lead standardisation of QA processes and tools
- support the global team in coordinating releases
- ensure that release requirements are maintained and understood by the global team
- monitor and evaluate release practices
- good understanding and knowledge of test methodologies and tools (Jira or similar)
- prior responsibility for Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- good understanding of and experience with Automation and Performance Testing
- experience deploying complex technologies
- good understanding of reference (static) data in an environment of multiple, interconnected, distributed systems
- a background in the financial industry, or similar enterprise
- powershell scripting or experience coding for automation
- Have the ability to understand pseudo-code, SQL, Java, Scripting, Linux & - Shell scripting
- Experience with Jenkins or equivalent would be ideal
This role is for a Test & Release Analyst for the Equities reference data platform. In this role, the successful candidate will collaborate with peers in London and Stamford to continue the development of our global data services platform. This platform delivers instrument and configuration data to a variety of Equities IT systems including the electronic trading platforms. The system is deployed globally on a UNIX platform and has both web and server components backed by MS SQL database. This is a mission critical system for Equities technology and its continued improvement is key to our success.