Senior Test Engineer

ABOUT US

We're the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we're proud to support the global economy. 

We're unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We're always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.   

Brief Job Summary:

The E2E testing team is seeking a technically strong and motivated Senior Test Engineer to join a global team in charge of monitoring the test environments and to validate cross-applications customer flows through automated test scenarios.

The successful candidate will be strong at automation, eager to learn, understand the business needs and able to dig into investigations into complex environments.

The candidate's daily tasks will be to build on existing Continuous Testing Flows to improve infrastructure monitoring, leading to proactive maintenance and faster identification of faulty components. Infrastructure to monitor contains a mix of Windows and RHEL systems.

The candidate will therefore participate in the automation of cross application scenarios, using different technologies, such as Robot framework, Selenium, Ansible, … Exposure to programming languages (Perl, Python, Java) is also required and experience with Chaos testing (Kraken/Cloud technologies) would be a great asset.

Experience with DevOps / SRE would also be a great advantage.

You will join a worldwide team of highly skilled professionals and have the opportunity to further expand your technical and testing expertise while at the same time building a solid financial business understanding.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Maintain and drive improvements on automated test and infrastructure monitoring.

•    Analyze, develop and maintain automation scripts aiming at monitoring and testing complex business flows "as a customer".

•    Identify service interruptions on the infrastructure, identify the root cause and run first level of restoration activities.

•    Coach and support less experienced software engineers in their automation's initiatives. 

•    Participate in transforming operation department to Agile / DevOps practices and Cloud computing.

Education
University degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Experience
5 to 8 years of experience within a development or testing environment; 3 years of experience in automation.

Professional knowledge and experience

Required skills:

•    Fluent in English.

•    Able to work independently but also in team.

•    Practical experience with Windows and Unix (day-to-day operations).

•    Practical experience with Automation/DevOps tools (Git / BitBucket / RobotFramework / Cloudbees / Openshift / Ansible / Docker).

•    Good troubleshooting skills in complex environments and variety of technologies.

Nice to have skills:

•    Practical experience with Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

•    Knowledge of SWIFT Interface products (Alliance Access, Gateway, Web Platform).

•    Knowledge of Atlassian products (Jira/Confluence/…).

•    Knowledge of Elasticsearch & Kibana.

•    Knowledge of Agile methodology.

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

We give you the freedom to be yourself

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone's voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.