# Quality Engineering Automation **Company**: BlackRock **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Finance **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635 **Apply**: https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlackRock_Professional/job/B3G---Skyline-Belgrade-Kneza-Milosa-88-Belgrade/Senior-Quality-Assurance-Engineer--Vice-President_R265321?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f88c5f11-26a ## Description This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on BlackRock's investment operating system, Aladdin, a platform used by thousands of investment professionals worldwide. As part of the Aladdin Engineering organization, you will play a critical role in defining and driving the quality engineering and automation strategy for complex, distributed systems operating on a global scale. **Quality Ownership & Strategy** - Act as a Quality Engineering Subject Matter Expert, owning quality attestations and signoff for production releases. - Define and evolve test automation and quality engineering strategy aligned with product architecture and business goals. - Champion best practices in quality, testability, and automation across engineering teams. **Test Design & Automation** - Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable automated test frameworks and suites (UI, API, data, and non-functional). - Craft comprehensive test scenarios based on functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, resilience, and data validation. - Drive a strong shift left testing mindset through early test design, automation, and collaboration. **Delivery & Agile Execution** - Lead functional, non-functional, and regression testing activities across projects and releases. - Work within an Agile delivery model, actively participating in sprint planning, execution, reviews, and retrospectives using Azure DevOps. - Track and communicate testing progress, quality metrics, risks, and delivery impacts to stakeholders. **Production Quality & Continuous Improvement** - Analyze production incidents and defects to identify root causes and actionable improvements for QA and Engineering teams. - Partner with development teams to improve test coverage, reduce defect leakage, and increase production stability. - Continuously improve QA processes, tooling, and reporting. **Collaboration & Leadership** - Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and platform teams across regions. - Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to QA engineers within the team. - Influence quality outcomes through strong communication, data-driven insights, and hands-on engagement. **Qualifications** - Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent degree or experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / Test Automation roles, preferably within financial services or complex enterprise systems. **Skills & Experience** - Strong experience in senior QA, automation, ideally within financial services, asset management, or similar regulated environments. - Solid understanding of investment management systems, risk, regulatory, or data-intensive platforms (preferred). - Hands-on coding experience in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, C#, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript), with the ability to design and maintain production-grade test automation code. - Deep knowledge of test automation frameworks, tools, and design patterns. - Strong experience with API testing, data validation, and distributed systems. - Good foundation in RDBMS, SQL, and application/infrastructure concepts. - Experience with performance testing tools and methodologies (e.g., JMeter or similar). - Proven ability to define and lead QA initiatives that drive measurable quality improvements. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills. - Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams. - Self-driven, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment. - Experience working in Agile / DevOps environments. - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube). - Experience with BDD / Cucumber. - Exposure to AI-assisted development or testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT), assisted development or testing tools. - Experience with tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar API testing platforms. **Benefits** - Retirement investment and tools designed to help you build a sound financial future; - Access to education reimbursement; - Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; - Family support programs; - Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. ## Skills ### Required - Java - C# - Python - TypeScript/JavaScript - Test automation frameworks - API testing - Data validation - Distributed systems - RDBMS - SQL - Application/infrastructure concepts - Performance testing tools - Agile - DevOps - CI/CD pipelines ### Nice to have - Investment management systems - Risk - Regulatory - Data-intensive platforms - BDD / Cucumber - AI-assisted development or testing tools --- Source: [Apply at blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlackRock_Professional/job/B3G---Skyline-Belgrade-Kneza-Milosa-88-Belgrade/Senior-Quality-Assurance-Engineer--Vice-President_R265321?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)