Job Description
Initially, this role will be remote, but will likely to switch to a hybrid working model (Manchester City Centre). Applicants that are not able to commit to a hybrid working model (In Manchester) need not apply. Who we are Company Background: CITIGROUP is one of the largest players in the financial industry, employing more than 200,000 people across the globe. Global Markets deals with clients and investors who wish to trade in the international markets of FX , Equities, Interest Rates, Bonds, Commodities and Credit derivatives. Each of these sectors alone are large multi-billion dollar revenue operations and each has its own technology team and range of bespoke and shared applications, built on a variety of different technologies. Our key applications are developed in house, rather than using vendors, in order to give our trading operations a competitive edge through speed , flexibility and customised functionality. What our Team does Commodities Technology: Our Commodities technology team comprises some 350 people across London, Houston, India & Singapore. Our IT teams are organised to support the key business operations of Pricing , Risk Management, Trade Lifecycle, Electronic Trading, Market Data and Data Analytics. There is a strong .NET focus within Commodities and the majority of our systems are Windows / C# based but there is also an increasing emphasis on Java / Linux and Python. Our UI's are mostly React. HADOOP, Couchbase, MongoDB and MS SQL server are all used for data caching and storage. Architecture: As the business has expanded in recent years, we have embarked on an ambitions re-engineering program across our platforms. We are retiring legacy applications, modernising and rationalising our technology stack. Our objective is to provide quicker time to market for new products and faster trading capability. What you will do Our Role We are looking to build a QA team to help support our Commodities trading system. Remote workers will augment IT staff in our main offices who now work on a hybrid model. The team develops and supports a strategic platform which calculates, manages and stores risk data for front office trading and we need to increase the size of our team to support build out of the Oil, Metals, Gas and Power trading operations. Our roles offer motivated candidates the chance to engage with our trading, quants and sales teams in an agile way and learn the vital role that risk plays across a wide range of commodities financial and physical products and we offer the chance to gain experience of industry leading, real-time pricing and risk techniques. Responsibilities include The primary responsibility of the QA team is the operational management of the SIT / UAT cycle Other responsibilities include: Preparing test strategies and test plans. Awareness of application architecture, data flows and component dependencies. Obtaining user sign offs. Data analysis on results, impacts and reasons for numbers change. Improving the functionality in testing tools and shortening / automating the time taken on regression cycles. Build out of software for testing our applications (Python , C#) , either independently or in conjunction with development teams. Coordination with upstream booking systems, market data , reference data and quant library teams on change. Scrutinising development releases/plans to understand scope and change impact. Holding the development teams to account on issue resolution. Managing test environments across the team and ensuring that we have sufficient capacity. Manage metrics on production release issues Long term aims Build out of a professional QA team with wider coverage of all risk applications within the Simpliciti platform. Expanding beyond numbers impact to performance impact and functional features. Build out of stress / volume testing features. Management of the BCP process. What you will bring / Key skills required Test Automation experience Technical skills in Python and or C# SQL skills Experience in test case automation using an existing test automation framework Experience translating software requirements/stories into accurate and complete test scenarios, including identifying the detailed test data needs Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (nice to have) ------------------------------------------------- Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------- Job Family: Technology Quality ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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