LMAX Group Looking for Test Analyst at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

The Software Development Team is responsible for designing and building the software products for LMAX exchange. The Development team operates in as much of a collective ‘devops’ manner as is possible for a regulated industry. Testers are also responsible for elements of production support and a supporting the automated test first approach to development as well as managing and maintaining the build and testing environments. The tester role is automation and development focussed but still maintains elements of free ranging exploratory testing and discovery.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Core:

• Develop and maintain knowledge of LMAX domain and related financial markets and use this knowledge to challenge, refine and focus product direction
• Maintain and extend knowledge of and skills in relevant technologies including those developed within LMAX and by third parties
• Adopt prevailing LMAX development process and practises including pairing and rotation
• Strive to achieve annual performance review goals as agreed
• Writing Automated acceptance tests
• Build automated regression tests
• Manage, maintain, create and execute the manual regression test suite for individual and multiple projects
• Manually testing user stories throughout the iteration, using applicable test techniques and exploratory testing methods while producing adequate test logs to document the test results

Mainstream:

• Actively share knowledge and skills with colleagues through brown bags, intranet, etc.
• Identify, escalate and where possible mitigate potential risks impacting delivery or the team
• Promote a culture of uncompromising high standards for delivery where shortcuts are avoided and team members recognise it as normal to do the right thing
• Provide any relevant feedback whether positive or negative directly to team members as early as possible.
• Work with Business Analysts, Developers, and Business Stakeholders to gather test requirements.
• Communicate test requirements in terms of user stories, acceptance criteria, test conditions, charters and, if necessary, test plans and specifications
• Working with the development team to maintain and expand the test framework
• Monitoring test coverage and obtaining feedback on testing with the Product Owner to ensure the desired coverage level is being obtained
• Help to support our system in production

Requirements

Once more advanced into the role:

• Manage, prioritise and escalate defects with the development team and the Product Owner
• Coordinate and perform user acceptance testing activities
• Showcasing tested user stories to stake holders and Product Owner to gain their feedback
• Create and maintain documentation that serves as a knowledge base on product and industry topics
• Release readiness testing including prioritisation of defects, test coverage and communication of build states
• Performance testing
• Identifying new technology, techniques and tools to incorporate into the test process
• Contribute to innovation, maintenance and extension of LMAX processes, tools and technologies

Success Looks Like:

• Milestone plan achieved in terms of stories delivered to production
• Adherence to process
• Low level of production issues
• Positive feedback from colleagues across the business.
• Evidence of sharing knowledge of and skills, internally and externally outside of LMAX
• Evidence of prioritising team success over individual.

Benefits

• Smart, friendly colleagues keen to share their knowledge and learn new things from you
• The opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, including cutting edge technology, and interesting technical & performance challenges
• A culture where high quality maintainable code is valued over quick hacks
• Generous funding pot for training courses and conferences
• Flexible working options, and home working support
• Competitive salary
• Relaxed dress-code
• Think you know every IntelliJ shortcut? Think again. (yes, this is a benefit!)