We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineering Tester to join our newly created sub-practice, dedicated to serving a mature and impactful long-term client in the financial services industry. This role requires a balance of independent work and teamwork, focusing on advancing the client's agenda. The ideal candidate will possess some understanding of the financial services sector, coupled with a proven track record of independent work, team collaboration, and client relationship management. Join us to make a meaningful impact and contribute within our innovative team.

What you’ll do:

• Developing configurable, maintainable, reusable, and dependable test automation components and enabling DevOps through continuous testing
• Creating test approaches and understanding how a system works. Ensuring that test plans properly align with business requirements and are kept up to date
• Designing, developing, and maintaining integration testing suite to ensure reusable common components meeting quality and security standards
• API Testing
• Data profiling included end to end starting with data ingestion and all related data tasks including test data creation
• Develops, executes, and maintains complex test cases to ensure the system functions according to requirements and document defects with supporting documentation
• Analyze moderate to complex problems to determine the root cause of the issue and conduct tests that will help in duplicating or troubleshooting
• Assists with setup and maintenance of test environments; developing and maintaining metrics related to software testing and ongoing application performance; implementation, upgrades, and training of automated test management tools; research and evaluation of testing tools and frameworks; planning and development of test strategy and plans; and analyzing test process automation strategy and framework
• Collaborating in Agile cross-functional teams to deliver solutions with high quality across different technical environments

• Experience in Java programming language
• Experience with automation testing frameworks (Selenium, Cypress etc.)
• Experience in Cloud performance testing with tools such as LoadRunner
• Hands-on experience designing and masking test data based on the user scenarios/rules and building scripts to test data pipelines for data lake/ data warehouse ecosystem
• Data validations using SQL, strong understanding of the relational database concepts and models
• Experience building test automation have used automated frameworks, tools, and strong SQL, data management concepts including data profiling, data mapping and data integration
• Strong debugging/analytical skills including dissecting transformation rules, data inconsistencies, incompleteness of data
• Demonstrated ability of working with AWS services such as Data Glue, Data Bricks, Athena, and Collibra Data Quality Platform
• Experience working in a DevOps environment, Gitlab, SCD and hands on experience using CI/CD systems preferred to enable test data pipeline
• Experience in hands-on Python programming language experience used to build test automation
• Quality Assurance Engineer methodologies and practices
• Solid knowledge in Spark and experience in leveraging Spark
• Experience in REST APIs
• Experience in Postman

Lab49 is a specialist strategy, design, and technology consulting company dedicated to the financial services industry. We were founded in 2002 to fill a need in the Financial Technology marketplace for high-end execution and reliable delivery of technology projects.

We have office hubs in Midtown Manhattan, Washington DC, London, Budapest, New Delhi and Sydney.

Our Hybrid Work Model 

At Lab49, we embrace a hybrid work model, offering you the flexibility to work from the office or remotely. We expect our Lab49ers to average 2-3 days per week in person and this could be at our midtown office in NYC or at a client site. We believe that both the flexibility and in person connection to each other and our clients build a collaborative culture and the opportunity to accelerate growth and innovation.

Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.

Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.