Description: Outside IR35 Opportunity Hybrid - 3 Day's per week in London 6 Month Contract Exciting QA opportunity within a leading commodities firm - Please note, if you have experience in back office, risk, or product control combined with excellent knowledge in Trading Derivatives, Power Trading/Derivatives or Power experience within the Energy Markets please also apply. The QA Engineer role is responsible for all day-to-day testing of prioritised change delivered through Agile (Scrum)/Kanban with implementation into production on a regular basis with at least one release every two weeks. The QA Engineers will play a key role in shaping the testing practices and ensuring quality is at the heart of the product, as per the Agile ethos. . QA Engineers will play a key role in shaping the testing practices and ensuring quality is at the heart of the product, as per the Agile ethos. Specific Requirements • Current role must be working on Commodities Trading (essential) – preferable Power • At least 3 years recent experience with a Power ETRM (essential) • Experience testing ETRM Systems (essential) • Experience working in a commodity trading business (Front, Middle and Back Office), with proven ability to manipulate deal data to test scenarios (essential) • SQL experience writing queries to interrogate data sets (essential) • Significant experience of interface/integration testing to interface contracts between multiple systems (preferable) • Excel used as a test tool for data analysis (essential) • Experience running value (numerical) comparison testing approaches preferably on reconciliations and PnL (preferable) • Automation Framework architecture design and development in, SpecFlow, TFS (preferable) • XML, JSON message structure, interpretation, and communication between components (preferable) • Experience of NFT for the understanding of system stacks and log file analysis (preferable) • Performance testing experience of hardware and software (preferable) Essential • Experience in one of the following: Commodities House, Investment Bank, Broker, Exchange • Experience of trade lifecycle and manipulating trades and their data • Demonstrable experience of application testing and familiarity with application lifecycle management (ALM) tools such as Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Mingle, Jira, Rally or similar • Experience testing Data as a primary QA goal with large data sets • Data flow and data mapping testing experience • Good SQL capability • Building Experience of deciding when to automate tests and when execute them manually. • Utilising BDD tools such as SpecFlow, Cucumber, FitNesse or similar, to evolve a robust automation pack. • Continuous integration approaches leveraging reporting tooling • Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Solid working knowledge of Agile methodologies and associated test practices • Ability to define test techniques and coverage for testing of requirements • Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills • Attention to detail while remaining succinct Skills: • Quality assurance • Endur • Specflow • SQL Job Title: QA Tester/Engineer Location: London, UK Rate/Salary: 500.00 - 600.00 GBP Monthly Job Type: Contract Trading as TEKsystems. 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