About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

Role Description:

Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to learn and make a difference in financial markets infrastructure? We're looking for passionate, hands-on technologists to help us lead the way.

CDSClear IT is the team behind the technology powering CDSClear - a critical clearing service within the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Our technology provides the core clearing and risk management platform functionality. The systems undergo change as part of projects with commercial, operational risk reduction, regulatory or infrastructure drivers.

We are looking for a highly skilled Manager in Quality Engineering to manage testing efforts across CDSClear and lead a team of Testers and SDETs based in Paris, Bucharest and London. In this role, you will coordinate the QA and testing of platform changes across the IT team and CDSClear business line. You will additionally drive the definition, execution and tracking of tests completed by IT. In this role, you will be expected to energetically drive test exploration, challenge development and business change areas on their test deliverables. The team seeks to have an early defect detection approach and to that end the Manager will ensure maximum defects are found as early as possible. You will therefore need to be a strong collaborator who expresses curiosity and learns our business. We also need you to be somebody with a passion for automation and process improvement. The challenges facing the team offer a natural opportunity for using leading edge AI tools to improve automation and test coverage. You will therefore need to be passionate about innovation, have solid technical skills suitable for managing the build out of automated test solutions and somebody who embraces change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a collaboration with Development, Function Leads, BAs and PMs to build out test strategy and plans fo testing of the Clearing Platform and other technology products such as our new Digital Portal.
• Engage with projects though entire SLDC to understand requirements and sign-off their testability.
• Lead the build out of new functional test cases, striving for automation.
• Own the execution and tracking of regression tests and improvement of regression packs when gaps are identified.
• Non-functional testing including formalised capacity testing.
• Drive improvements in test automation and CI/CD integration.
• Test governance and reporting including the tracking of test execution across all teams and the reporting of defects.
• Leadership of team members with both hard and soft reporting lines.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• Proactive and clear communicator who can adapt to technical and business audiences.
• Management and Leadership skills suitable for a 5 to 7 person team spread over two to three locations.
• Demonstrated collaboration in a global corporate environment.
• Awareness of OTC derivatives trade life-cycle.
• Experience with utilising test management tools for tracking, reporting and automation (such as Zephyr).
• Strong awareness of control environment and cyber landscape applicable for a financial services firm providing key market infrastructure.
• Strong verbal and written English skills.

It would help us if you have:

• Knowledge of Credit Default Swap (CDS) products.
• Knowledge of software development best practices concerning the use of Enterprise source control and CI/CI.
• Development skills suitable for Test Automation development with tools such as Cucumber or Cypress.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a global mission with real impact in the financial markets.
• Work with leading-edge technologies in a hybrid on prem / cloud environment.
• Enjoy a flexible, hybrid work model and a supportive, inclusive culture.
• Access to career development, training, and international opportunities within LSEG.

Career Stage:
Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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