Senior Test Engineer - Investment Data Platform

Overview

We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited). We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003.

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G’s ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world.

Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

Job Description

Job Title

Senior Test Engineer – Investment Data Platform

Grade

2C

Level

Colleague

Job Function

Asset Management Tech & Change

Job Sub Function

Investments Data Platform

Reports to

Sr. Lead/Sr. Manager – Investments Data Platform (India)

Location

Mumbai

Business Area

M&G Global Services

Overall Job Purpose

Working with M&G Plc. means becoming part of a brand with a global reputation and our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly.

M&G plc is a firm built on a rich and long history and with a commitment to an innovative future centred on the needs of customers and clients. There is a genuine opportunity to drive competitive advantage with value creation through the formation of this new organisation.

The role is for a Senior Test Engineer in the Asset Management/Investment Management domain. Carry out rapid release testing, supporting development of automation test frameworks across one or more interrelated data platform teams and capabilities and are proficient in multiple test scripting languages, mainly C#. Collaborate closely with leads to implement test strategies that support complex deliveries.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Deliver Testing and Automation solutions to support the Asset/Investment Data platform, addressing demands from investment teams, clients, and regulators, while considering cost and risk.
• Create, maintain, and run functional and non-functional tests. Perform root cause analysis and create automated tests to prevent defect recurrence.
• Contribute to building a test automation framework or creating generic test automation utilities to reduce manual efforts.
• Work with event-driven data processing architecture and various Azure services.
• Handle various data file formats (csv, json, xml) and Azure services (Data Lake, Data Factory, Service Bus, Function App, SQL Server).
• Validate end-to-end data flow and content per business requirements.
• Use C# for Test Automation, with SpecFlow as the BDD tool, and Groovy with Java. Stay current with domain knowledge, programming languages, and testing tools (e.g., Groovy, SpecFlow, Selenium, Cucumber).
• Execute and deliver testing activities through rapid releases/processes, ensuring successful production deployment using a daily Kanban/Scrum/Agile approach.
• Explore various automated/technical testing techniques to enhance the test approach.
• Build, package, and deploy software through environments; manage configuration settings and ensure deployment success while maintaining the deployment framework.
• Contribute to the Automation & Testing community, continuously improving testing frameworks, identifying improvement opportunities, and promoting process standardization and knowledge sharing within the team.
  
  

• Testing and Automation experience with any programming language such as C#, Java, or Groovy (preferably C#). Practical implementation of different collections (eg: List, Set, Dictionary/Maps).
• Able to write code using OOPs concepts (Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Encapsulation, etc.) in Test and Automation projects.
• Familiar with Testing Frameworks (e.g., NUnit, JUnit, TestNG) and BDD tools such as SpecFlow, Cucumber, or JBehave (preferably SpecFlow)
• Experience in backend Automation (Eg. Rest APIs, Database etc). API testing and automation using tools and libraries using RestSharp, RestAssured, Postman.
• Good knowledge of Relational & Non-Relational databases management systems.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, TDD and BDD methodologies.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and orally, within a project team
  
  

• Exposure to financial markets & asset management processes and understand analysis into a wide variety of asset classes and associated analytics (e.g. Equity, Fixed Income, Private Assets etc).
• Any prior test automation experience with any cloud services (preferably Azure)
• Experienced in setting up build pipelines for test automation projects
• Any prior experience in testing large & complex/dependent data sets.
  
  

• 5+ years of total experience in Technology/Software Development/Data Engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in a Test Engineer role.
  
  

• Graduate in any discipline.