Equity Finance IT has a requirement for a QA Engineer to assist with the ongoing development of a synthetic swaps application. Based in Kiev, this individual will join a distributed team of 4 SCRUM teams (2 in Kiev and 2 in London).

The team is responsible for designing, developing and supporting a synthetic swaps system for trading Total Return Swaps, Synthetic Equity Swaps, Basket Swaps and Contracts for Difference. Project latest initiatives include extending system functionality to support new products and markets, as well as improvement of system scalability and resilience, migration to new technologies.

The new system is based on a C#.NET GUI communicating with a J2EE WebSphere server, backed by a C# server side calculation engine and Oracle 11g database.

Responsibilities:
 

• The candidate will be required to work within a SCRUM feature team.
• Performing new fuunctionality and regression manual testing. Development of acceptance criteria, test design.
• Active participation in distributed agile process
• Creating and running automated scripts, increasing test coverage for existing code

Skills Required:

Mandatory:

•  2+ years experience in IT
•  0.5+ years of experience with manual tests, test design document development
•  knowledge of testing methodologies
•  Basic knowledge of SQL
•   Good communication skills and good English skills (spoken, read and written)

Highly desirable

•  Experience with agile and working in cross-functional teams
•  Understand the basics of business processes related to electronic trading on the exchange, in relation to an investment bank or similar financial institutions.
•  Financial domain knowledge
•  Basic knowledge of any programming language, desire to learn Java
•  Experience with automated tests, tools, methodologies.