Business Intelligence Senior Test Engineer

London Clearing House (LCH) is a leading multi-asset class and multi-national clearing house, serving major exchanges and trading platforms as well as a range of OTC markets.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Business Intelligence Test Engineer with previous exposure of data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI). It is a techno-functional role with a primary focus on enhancing testing capabilities and best practices within the BI arena.

LCH is looking for a talented individual to innovate and support our BI product, within test automation, regression testing and performance testing areas. This is an exciting opportunity to join an area of the business in growth mode with a full and varied book of work, underpinning the stability and growth of the firm.

Key Responsibilities Of The Role

• Define industry best practices in BI testing
• Testing of the data warehouse
• Testing of data report outputs
• Analysing any breaks and allocating them to the relevant SMEs for further investigation,
• Cross training of other Collateral IT testers
• Working with other teams such as regression test and performance test to ensure full coverage of the BI deliverables are covered by other areas
• Ability to clearly articulate any differences from expected behaviour to other team members, users and management if required
• Ensures all quality control tests are carried out accurately and documented in full
• Assists with continuous improvements of the automation process to minimise manual testing efforts
• Develops new tests and tools for our collateral components, APIs and services, test related CI/CD pipelines
• Develop working knowledge of the collateral application stack including tests at all levels -junit, component tests and end-to-end
• Track and communicate test results in a timely, effective, and automated manner
• Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile centre of excellence
• Actively contribute to our continuous improvement culture.
  
  

Skills Required

Mandatory:

• Experience in data warehousing testing
• Significant experience in testing data report outputs such as csv, XML, JSON
• Good working knowledge of SQL
• Understanding of test management tools such as JIRA/Zephyr
• Knowledge of different phases of testing e.g. SIT, UAT, Regression, Performance
• Ability to work with engineers to investigate test failures
• Test automation.
  
  

Preferable

• Previous experience testing using a batch scheduler e.g. Control-M
• Advanced or mid-level professional qualification relating to software testing or quality assurance
• Ability to manage various stakeholders’ expectations (Business Leads, Technical Leads)
• Experience of financial markets (e.g. Clearing, Trading)
• Experience using tooling such as Jenkins, Bitbucket and Ansible.
  
  

Personal Skills

• Attention to detail, disciplined and reliable, results oriented
• Good analytical skills capacity to think outside the box/get creative to solve issues
• Excellent interpersonal skills / stakeholder management – effectively able to communicate with colleagues in QA, Development, BA teams and Business users
• Proactive, motivated individual, committed to excellence
• Strong Problem Solving / Analytical skills
• Team first mentality with the capacity to fit into a multicultural team across a minimum of 4 entities (London, NY, Paris, Bengaluru)
  
  

Education

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electronics / Electrical Engineering, or equivalent to grade 2.1 or equivalent.
  
  

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.

We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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