Homeoffice QA Automation Engineer

GPP a Titan Wealth Company GPP is a multi-award-winning UK-based financial services firm that provides execution, structured products, clearing, and custody services to broker-dealers, wealth managers, family offices, and professional traders. Clients are able to access the global financial markets via GPP's multi-asset class trading platform, which provides trade execution, clearing, and custody services. As part of the Titan Wealth group, GPP and Titan Wealth Solutions offer a compelling alternative platform to traditional administration models through its core deliverables of scalability, efficiency and innovation. As a full end-to-end investment lifecycle services platform, we are fully compliant with CASS 6 and 7 with client assets and cash held with BNY Mellon and Barclays Bank. Our vision is to be the leading services provider for wealth management professionals by providing leading-edge, innovative solutions. As the technology team, we are committed to achieving this vision by driving innovation and excellence in what we deliver. We require creative, objective, and forward-thinking in order to develop our strengths and minimise our weaknesses while architecting scalable solutions. Our values are: - Professionalism; how we treat our clients and our colleagues - Trust; embrace innovation and adapt to change - Innovation; dare to create and don't fear failure Learn more about GPP, Titan Wealth, and Titan Wealth Solutions: - https://www.titanwh.com/gpp-cape-town/ - https://www.gpp.group/ - https://www.titanwh.com/ - https://www.titanwealthsolutions.com/ Your role as a QA Automation Engineer

• Our QA automation engineers welcome any chance to innovate and use their initiative, but they do so while implementing according to best practices in order to produce tested, secure, reliable, and scalable software and solutions
• You don't just checkboxes, you are required to think outside the box and test accordingly. When you test you try and break things, you think about security and scalability. You consider the bigger picture not just going through the same repetitive flow (automation can do that)
• Monitor the sprint queues and be aware of what is happening in the current sprint and what is planned for future sprints. Proactively contribute to the preparation and planning, story writing, estimation, identifying of risks or simply just giving advice at the right time
• Proactively engage and work as part of a highly effective and collaborative team in order to understand requirements and develop well-considered, and well-structured test plans, test cases or automated scripts
• Develop a holistic understanding of our proprietary system, business processes and the technology involved; proactively identify any shortcomings in understanding by facilitating the sharing of knowledge, ideas and insights amongst the team and contributing to our knowledge base
• Be a pioneer, help drive our innovation and chart our course with iterative improvement. Proactively assess the current testing frameworks, strategies, and plans. Identifying areas of improvement and growth for the team and how they could impact the broader tech team
• Adhere to Consumer Duty outcomes

Your skills

• Solid foundational knowledge of testing fundamentals and industry best practices
• Excellent understanding of high to low-level test case design and implementation
• Proven experience using SQL, from simple statements and queries to working with functions and stored procedures
• Experienced in risk-based testing analysis and design
• Experienced in black box and other experience-based test techniques (error guessing, checklist-based testing, exploratory testing, defect based testing)
• Experienced in conducting both technical and analytical reviews (professionally reviewing peer scripts and test cases ensuring the quality of test-related work)
• Experienced with QA automation and a strong understanding of automation tools such as Selenium, Nightwatch, JMeter, Postman, etc
• Experienced with REST APIs, JSON and the underlying protocols (HTTP/S, TCP/IP); manually testing against these endpoints using tools or scripting automated tests
• Experienced with designing, implementing, reviewing, maintaining and execution of automated tests and clearly documenting and reporting the results
• Experienced with performance, scale and load-based automated testing
• Experienced with version control (Git) and a good understanding of branching and merging
• Experienced with development tools to troubleshoot and debug web-based applications
• Experienced working as part of an Agile Scrum team
• BONUS: A keen interest in understanding and exploring the latest CI/CD, DevOps, and automated testing technologies
• BONUS: Proven experience using a programming language such as C#, JAVA, JavaScript, PHP, Python etc

Why work for us? - Flexible working environment with remote work as the focus, we use Workshop 17 at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town as a co-working location when face-to-face would be beneficial to the team. - We believe in a healthy work/life balance, especially with the shift to a remote work focus. We encourage our team members to take time off, refocus, and reenergize and that a healthy separation from work can be maintained. - We have an open, trusting, empowering, friendly and importantly informal and relaxed environment. Your ideas and experience could contribute to shaping how we work, what we work on and help us continually drive innovation and improvement. - Competitive salary – we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively. - Competitive holiday leave – 20+ days’ annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days) - Performance-related discretionary annual bonus. - Retirement, Risk, and Medical-Aid contribution – we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing. - Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study. The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities