Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Lead Software Engineer (Automation/Manual QA Engineer)

What Makes Us, Us

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

We're looking for a Senior QA Engineer with extensive experience in test automation and a solid foundation in manual testing to ensure our product remains robust and reliable. You'll also have the opportunity, and need, to learn APL, a functional programming language used in key parts of our stack. Prior experience with APL isn’t required, we provide comprehensive training and a supportive environment to help you succeed. Our company also partly owns Dyalog APL, ensuring the language remains actively maintained and relevant.

This role is ideal if you're an engaged QA engineer who enjoys digging into code, designing automated tests, and wants to broaden your programming skills in new paradigms.

As our new Senior QA Engineer, you will join the Product Division, Transactions & Private Debt product area. It consists of four teams, each with four to seven software engineers across several geographical locations.

This role is pivotal in accelerating delivery cycles while maintaining high product quality. By automating critical test scenarios and integrating them into the CI/CD pipeline, you’ll help reduce manual testing effort, catch defects early, and ensure faster, more reliable releases—directly affecting customer satisfaction and business agility.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks using C# and related tools
• Execute manual and exploratory testing to validate complex financial solutions and edge cases
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and product owners to define clear, testable requirements
• Analyze and report bugs with clarity and precision
• Help maintain product quality
• Learn and apply APL to automate solutions built in this language (full training provided)
• Contribute to continuous integration, quality gates, and deployment pipelines
  
  

• 3+ years of experience in QA or software engineering with a focus on test automation
• Proficiency in C# and .NET testing frameworks like SpecFlow/Reqnroll
• Thorough understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Comfortable with manual testing in complex business domains (ideally finance or data-heavy systems)
• Solid experience testing APIs, services, and data pipelines
• A willingness and curiosity to learn APL, no prior experience required, but motivation is essential
• Effective problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Agile and BDD practices
  
  

• Working with others to leverage the knowledge of everyone on the team
• Taking responsibility for your work and focusing on effective solutions
• Trying new approaches to handle both new and existing challenges
• Learning new skills and enhancing existing ones
• Continually seeking ways to improve our processes and the way we work
• Giving and receiving feedback in a way that promotes growth and understanding
  
  

Competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, at SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an excellent work-life balance: flexible work hours, a hybrid workplace model.

Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

On top of that, we have IP sprints; where you have 3 weeks per quarter to spend on mastering your skills as well as contributing to the company development. There is never just only one route - we practice an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness

and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

Who We Are

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law.

We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.