Senior Quality Engineer

LSEG is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to drive quality across the software development lifecycle. The successful candidate will partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and DevOps teams to establish testing strategies, improve automation coverage, and enable rapid, reliable releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute comprehensive quality strategies aligned with product and engineering objectives.
• Lead test planning activities and establish risk-based testing approaches across initiatives.
• Review requirements, architectures, and designs to identify quality risks and testability concerns early.
• Establish quality gates, standards, and automation objectives for development teams.
• Provide technical leadership on quality engineering practices across multiple products or services.
• Mentor Quality Engineers and development teams on automation, testing methodologies, and quality best practices.

API & Service-Level Testing

• Design, develop, and maintain robust API and service-level automation frameworks.
• Validate REST, GraphQL, and microservice-based architectures through automated testing.
• Create automated tests covering functional, integration, contract, regression, and negative testing scenarios.
• Validate authentication, authorization, data integrity, error handling, and security controls across services.

Test Automation Engineering

• Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop reusable automation libraries, utilities, and test data management solutions.
• Drive automation-first testing approaches, minimizing reliance on manual regression testing.
• Continuously improve automation reliability, execution speed, and maintainability.

System Integration & End-to-End Testing

• Validate complex workflows across distributed systems, microservices, and third-party integrations.
• Design test strategies for highly integrated cloud-based applications.
• Conduct integration and system testing to ensure end-to-end business process validation.

Performance, Reliability & Security Testing

• Define and execute performance, scalability, and reliability testing approaches.
• Analyze application behaviour under load and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Support security testing initiatives by validating authentication, authorization, and API security controls.

DevOps & Continuous Quality

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Ensure quality gates are embedded within deployment pipelines.
• Leverage test execution analytics and quality metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Release Quality & Production Support

• Evaluate release readiness using risk assessments, automation results, and quality metrics.
• Participate in production incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Develop monitoring and validation strategies to ensure quality after deployment.

Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Test Automation.
• Strong experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks.
• Advanced experience in API testing and automation using tools such as Postman, Rest Assured, Playwright, Karate, or similar frameworks.
• Strong programming/scripting experience with languages such as Java, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, SDLC, Agile, and DevOps methodologies.