Lead Automation QA Engineer (Calypso)

Description

The company is an AI-first global technology firm with over 25 years of engineering leadership, more than 2,000 staff and over 500 active projects for Fortune 500 clients such as HBO, Microsoft, Google and Starbucks.

The role supports a multilateral development lender that offers loans, grants and technical help for economic growth and sustainable infrastructure. The lender works with private-sector affiliates and focuses on climate change, innovation and digital transformation.

Responsibilities

• Write and keep up the master test strategy and detailed test plans, setting scope, objectives, entry and exit criteria, dependencies, schedules and quality gates.
• Lead System Integration Testing, regression, performance, security and position conversion testing, and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Build and improve automated test frameworks and reusable suites using the Calypso Automated Testing Tool, Selenium, JUnit and Cucumber.
• Connect automated test runs to CI/CD pipelines.
• Guide test-case writing and execution across front-to-back Calypso workflows, checking trade capture, pricing, risk, settlements, collateral, SWIFT messaging and accounting postings.
• Organise test environments, including setup, configuration, availability and upkeep.
• Plan, provide, check and refresh test data.
• Set up and maintain tools for manual and automated testing.
• Coordinate SIT and UAT with technical teams, functional leads and available business testers.
• Run defect logging, triage, severity rating, prioritisation, escalation and resolution tracking, using Jira and Xray for tests and defects.
• Track defect response and fix progress, and escalate anything that threatens test completion.
• Oversee load, stress, batch and performance tests with JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Coordinate security testing and vulnerability assessments following OWASP principles.
• Keep requirements traceable to tests and make sure coverage is complete.
• Report weekly test execution metrics, readiness assessments and overall quality status.
• Prepare test summary reports, audit-ready evidence packs and final sign-offs.
• Tell project leadership about testing risks, dependencies, blockers and recommendations.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading QA and testing on complex Calypso implementations.
• Strong understanding of Calypso front-to-back workflows: trade capture, pricing, risk, settlements, collateral, SWIFT messaging and accounting postings.
• Experience writing and running master test strategies for large financial-services transformation programmes.
• Hands-on use of the Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT).
• Strong test automation skills with Selenium, JUnit and Cucumber.
• Experience putting automated test frameworks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading SIT, regression testing and UAT support.
• Strong knowledge of test environment coordination and test data management.
• Experience validating position conversions and complex financial data.
• Hands-on work with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
• Knowledge of security testing and OWASP vulnerability assessment principles.
• Advanced use of Jira and Xray for test and defect management.
• Experience producing test metrics, traceability reports, evidence packs and release readiness assessments.
• Strong skills in defect management, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Advanced English.

Conditions

Onsite or hybrid work.