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, OpenTelemetry, 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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