Job Description
Overview
Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
Job Summary:
The Equity Finance team are seeking a skilled Quality Assurance Test Engineer to join our team in Belfast. Citi is embarking on a bold multi-year transformation for the Prime Services business. If you are someone that can work in a fast-paced environment with a pragmatic approach to delivery and diligence, then please look to apply for this role. You will need to employ strong communication skills, ensure a first-class service of quality to our internal clients. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Java and SQL, with proven experience in developing and maintaining automated test scripts through the use of practices such as BDD.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement and work within a BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development) automation framework.
- Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases, test estimation, regression testing, test automation development, and other project artifacts.
- Acting as a quality gate and identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs before software products are delivered to our clients.
- Implementation and execution of API based automation test for functional and non-functional testing using Citi approved tools.
- Identifying and highlighting ways to continuously optimize the way in which QA function operates to create an efficient, scalable team.
- Work with the business and Production Support to investigate issues and prevent production defects.
- Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
- Together with the team contribute to innovative & best-in-class solutions for our business.
- Apply proven software testing concepts and methodologies to daily tasks.
- Collaborate with the development team to identify and resolve issues.
- Adapt to changing business needs and effectively shift focus on priorities as required.
Required Qualifications:
- Proven industry experience in automation testing with strong hands-on experience in Java.
- Solid experience with BDD automation frameworks (Cucumber).
- Strong hands-on experience in API automation/testing.
- Prior experience in the usage of SQL for database validation and testing.
- Fair working knowledge of CI/CD process, Jenkins, Git, etc
- Excellent logical, analytical, problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing business requirements and priorities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exposure to the Finance industry or a background in financial applications is a significant advantage.
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
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— Michael L. Corbat, CEO
| Workplace Initiatives | |
| Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? | Yes- Open for vacancies in November 2019 |
| Leadership development programs? | Yes |
| Mentoring programs? | Yes |
| Coaching programs? | Yes |
| Employee-led diversity networks? | Yes |
| Internal women’s networking groups? | Yes |
| Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? | Yes |
| No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: | up to 26 weeks |
| Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: | 26 weeks |
| No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: | 2 weeks |
| Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: | 26 weeks |
| Workplace Initiatives | |
| Gender pay gap reporting information 2017 (UK): | |
| Average pay gap: | 43.50% |
| Median pay gap: | 32.00% |
| Average bonus gap: | 71.60% |
| Median bonus gap: | 71.40% |
| Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? | Yes |
| Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? | Yes |
| Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? | Yes |
| Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? | Yes |
Returner Programme
The Citi Returner Programme is a supportive hiring programme, designed to help you transition from a career break into a career within financial services. You may have worked in the finance sector, the tech sector or another industry all together! We value your knowledge, skills and experience, regardless of how and where you have developed them. We believe that hiring people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives brings advantages to our teams.
The programme will start in January 2020 and Returners will benefit from a structured and in-depth induction to help them transition successfully back into the workplace, followed by a tailored programme of professional development and learning delivered over a period of 15-18 months, dependent on the role and career pathway.
Returners will undertake professional qualifications as part of the programme and enjoy the benefits of being part of a supportive cohort. Citi recognises the importance of flexible working arrangements and is happy to explore these with you.
Eligible candidates will –
• Have been on a career break for at least two years
• Be looking to start the next phase of their career in financial services, in a range of roles, including operations and technology
• Demonstrate natural curiosity and be motivated to learn new skills
• Exhibit excellent leadership and communication skills
The returner programme will be open for applications on the 1st September 2019.