Automation Test Engineer

job board search:

("commodity" or "commodities" or "ETRM" or "CTRM" or "Energy trading risk management" or "commodity trading risk management" or "endur" or "findur" or "allegro") and ("tester" or "test*" or "QA" or "quality assurance") and ("automation" or "automated" or "c#") and "API"

 

Triangle - Their product automates regression testing, trade lifecycle testing, risk, settlements, etc.

JOSH - KEY THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR

1) Reqnroll or Specflow

2) SQL

3) API & Integration testing

3) ideally trading or financial services or gambling or energy

 

brief:

integration testing 

API testing 

A self starter 

Bright

Personable 

Database, SQL knowledge 

BDD gherkin/cucumber specflow knowledge 

Not necessarily C# or .Net knowledge required 

Someone who has the confidence to work as a consultant with the customer but with our product

Ideally with trading knowledge so they understand the data they are working with 

 

interview prep:

 

• Extract in to BD (is that BDD?)
• Went through the lifecycle of a trade – Darren has fx background
• Front end dugging, back end debugging
• SQL questions in his head – slight struggle – would be easier if written down

 

• SQL questions
• Left join question
• Then inner join question

 

role overview:

 

“They need someone who can understand trading workflows, translate requirements into BDD/feature files, write strong test scenarios, validate data with SQL, and work with automation/development teams — not necessarily someone who is building frameworks or writing heavy C# code.”