Software Engineer in Test

Who we are:

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 12th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center (“ISAP” or “Information Systems Asia Pacific”) is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office)” for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
• Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

The Position

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

The team is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide by the Sales Front Office Desks. The team works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration (thru integration of new financial products, optimizing and automating front to back business processes).

As a QA specialist, you will be immersed in real life projects, shaping the future of Capital Markets IT. Unleash your creativity, collaborate with industry leaders, and drive innovation that sets new standards. This is your chance to be a catalyst for change and make your mark in the dynamic world of capital markets. You will have the support and guidance of identified subject matter experts, dedicated communities, as well as established leaders.

You will be working on Sales applications and taking care of day-to-day QA release cycles of multiple apps. You will be closely associated with business analysis and development team to forecast/plan new upcoming QA releases, add/revamp existing test repo both functionally and technically.

You will also be instrumental in taking an automated approach by exploiting the modern CI/CD techniques. Maintaining strong coding standards and modularity. Align yourself with bank’s initiatives and strategies.

Main Responsibilities

• Liaise with business analysts and development team for clarification and understanding of requirements.
• Design and develop and test code using a modern CI-CD pipeline
• Run the non-regression release cycles of different applications within Sales. Lead the release cycle.
• Perform Capacity and Scope forecast for each Sprint. Work actively to optimize the QA life-cycle in order to manage the book of work of multiple applications.
• Lead the automation initiative of the existing test scenarios and enhance the test-coverage with new scenarios in parallel.
• Prepare and maintain technical test documentations and keep the test repo updated in real-time.
• Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in Java and QA methodologies.
• Participate in proof of concept for new technology R&D.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives for software and QA development processes.
• Must be able to mentor new/junior resources, impart knowledge and collaborate effectively within Sales and whole CMI.
• Self-motivated and starter with demonstrated ability to lead new initiatives, advise on design and approach, perform POCs and explore latest market standards and tools to gain time and cost efficiency.
• Flexibility to accept additional responsibilities and be able to multi-task.

Qualifications and Profile

3 years of relevant experience in:

• QA Design Methodologies.
• Object-oriented language: Java
• Load/Performance, API and Micro-services testing abilities, GUI Test Automation.
• Testing automation tools and frameworks (e.g., JUnit, TestNG, and Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber).
• UNIX/LINUX Scripting skills.
• Relational DB and language: MySQL, SQLServer, Sybase.
• DevOps Pipeline tooling GIT, Maven, Jenkins, GitLab, Docker / Kubernetes.

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Strong passion for software development and quality assurance.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a dynamic software development environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Excellent Aptitude, Curious to learn and inquisitiveness.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
• Web scripting language will be an advantage: JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Angular, React