Test Automation Engineer

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We drive the transformation of the financial markets. That’s why we invest in bright minds, in their ideas, knowledge and development. We do that by combining our best sides.

If you would like to find out why stability makes us so agile, why experience makes us so curious and why empathy makes us so impactful, apply now for the position of

Test Automation Engineer

Zurich | 80-100 % | Reference 2654

SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), a company owned by the Swiss Stock exchange, is building the first market infrastructure in the world to offer a fully integrated end to end trading, settlement and custody service for digital assets. This is an extraordinary opportunity to work at the heart of the financial industry that is at the tipping point of a major change. If you like to work in highly collaborative team with a sense of purpose, then SDX is the right place to be.

What You Will Do
  • Work as part of the development team to carry out in-sprint testing activities and support QA leadership in the automation of testing activities
  • Co-ordinate with different test teams both inside and outside of the organization to ensure optimal quality at various testing stages namely System / System Integration Testing
  • Design Test Scenarios using Gherkin until validated with the PO/BA
  • Automate the test scenarios designed at appropriate level:  API or UI – the design should be highly flexible, re-usable and modular
  • Define, create and maintain the test data needed for testing and detect bugs until successful closure
  • Support the Product Owner/Business Analysts during User Acceptance Testing phase
What You Bring
  • At least a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar plus a minimum of 5 years of test automation experience, ideally within Financial Services
  • Solid hands on exposure on automating REST, SOAP Webservices - GQL will be an added advantage
  • Understanding of Testing frameworks – Cucumber, Robot,  Junit test framework
  • Familiarity with Java, Kotlin, GraphQL, REST will be a definitive advantage
  • Domain experience of trading environments – investment banking, broking etc.
  • Hands on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift

What We Offer

Flexible Work Models
We trust our employees – that’s why you can arrange your work-from-home and in-office times with the team flexibly.

Personal Development Programs
You can periodically attend training sessions, in-house classes, SIX Academy seminars, and mentoring or coaching sessions.

Agile Working Methods 
Whether through scrum or design thinking, we solve exciting tasks together in teams.

If you have any questions, please contact Simon Clarke simon.clarke@sdx.com.

For this vacancy we only accept direct applications.

Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking forward to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.

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