Senior Test Specialist

Job Summary

• Banking domain knowledge (solid understanding of core banking processes and channels)

• Broad technology understanding across all layers (client/browser, APIs, services, databases, network, IAM, proxies/WAF)

• Strong hands-on non-functional testing experience across multiple dimensions, including:

Performance & load testing (load/stress/soak, capacity, latency/throughput, scalability, bottleneck analysis)

• Resilience & availability testing (failure scenarios, timeouts, retries, fault-injection approaches)

• Security testing (test-focused) (OWASP Top 10 understanding, authN/authZ checks, config/header checks, basic DAST/SAST interpretation)

• Usability & accessibility quality checks (basic WCAG understanding, accessibility tree awareness, user-flow quality)

• Operability & observability fitness (logging/metrics/tracing requirements, alerting fitness, basic SLI/SLO understanding)

• Automation capability (mandatory, not primary focus):

Java or TypeScript (Python optional) for utilities, checks, harnesses

• Test as Code: versioned, reproducible NFR checks and assets

• CI/CD experience integrating NFR checks into pipelines (thresholds, gates, trends)

• NFR engineering / requirements analysis: measurable criteria, test design, measurement points, evidence and traceability

• Root cause analysis for NFR failures using logs/metrics/traces and code-level reasoning

• Jira (Xray) test definition/execution and evidence linking for NFR validation

Key Responsibilities

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Skill Requirements

• Temenos (or comparable core banking platforms)

• Tools: K6, JMeter (or Gatling), basic OWASP ZAP/Burp; Selenium/Playwright for synthetic checks

• Monitoring & observability: Prometheus/Grafana, Dynatrace, Open Telemetry, Tempo/Loki, Splunk, Tableau

• Accessibility tooling: axe, Lighthouse; screen reader basics

• Regulatory/standards awareness (e.g., DORA/FINMA principles: auditability, resilience, evidence)

• Test data management knowledge (anonymized/synthetic, environment constraints)

Soft Skills (Must-Have)

• Strong collaboration with Dev, Ops/SRE, Security, Architecture, Product and Test Management

• Analytical thinking for measurement, debugging and optimization

• Initiative and ownership to drive NFR strategy and standards (templates, gates, reporting)

• Clear communication for technical deep-dives and management-level summaries (risk/impact/trends)

• Ability to handle critical situations (incident/task-force involvement)

Other Requirements

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