About the Role

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. 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.

Swift is redefining cross-border payments, making them faster and more transparent than ever before. We are the way the world moves value — every instant of every day, in almost every country.

We are proud that what we do has a critical impact on the global financial community and touches almost every aspect of the financial world. So, what you do at Swift has real impact too — an impact that matters every day. Which is why you matter to us.

Joining Swift gives you unparalleled exposure to knowledge, expertise and technologies. If you can, you’ll be able to begin different career paths and have the opportunity to work in teams, departments and fields in countries around the world.

Swift is unique. There is no other organisation like ours in the world driving the long-term future of the financial ecosystem. You will be surrounded by forward-thinking, customer-focused and intellectually curious people in a collaborative, friendly, open and inclusive environment.

At Swift, we are trusted every instant. And as a member of our team, you are trusted to make your impact every day.

The Access Cluster is looking for highly skilled and motivated candidate to join the Web Platform squad (based in Belgium/London). You will have the opportunity to work on a product that is used by most top financial institutions in the world and is key in the digital economy of today.

As a Test Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic software development team environment where your testing skills will be crucial to the delivery of mission critical financial software to the global financial industry following structured development approaches in Agile methodologies.

You will undertake DevOps/testing/automation activities of medium to high complexity related to software components. You will be required to do development work related to software testing frameworks. Given the mission critical nature of our business, strong emphasis is placed on quality, security, availability, resiliency, scalability, performance, and system resources consumption. It is expected that suitable candidates adhere to a structured testing environment and will actively contribute to delivering software to the quality expectations of our customers.

Responsibilities
As a Test Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team of professionals and applying agile software developments, DevOps/testing/automation and delivery practices.
You will actively participate in the whole cycle of development of new user stories: requirements review, solution design, testing plan and development testing.
Understanding problems, solutions and ensuring the overall consistency of the software will be one of your primary objectives.

You will share team commitments and own some parts of those solutions.
You will perform software delivery tasks (builds, installation of release on test environments, etc).
Our solution can always get better! You will take any opportunity to improve the way we work, the tools we use and the software we produce.

What to expect?
• Collaborate with team members to identify system requirements, develop effective strategies and test plans.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop, execute and maintain test cases (manual or automated) and analyse results
• Report bugs and errors to the team
• Help troubleshoot issues

What will make you successful?

• Curious, eager to learn and to educate others

• Bachelor Degree in relevant field of computing (IT, Computer engineering, Computer Science, Informatics)
• Experience in testing is an asset
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks is an added advantage
• Testing methodology certification (e.g. ISTQB) is an added advantage

• Analytical mind and problem-solving attitude
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
• Open-minded, solutions oriented, and a true team player gaining energy through collaboration with others.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal relations, sense of responsibility, commitment and customer focus.
• Ability to prioritize work independently based on business impact and urgency.
• Ability to take proactive actions and have positive attitude.
• Testing background with experience or knowledge of following are nice to have:
o Basic knowledge in functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing
o Familiar with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, X-Ray), confluence
o Agile Mind-set: You like to learn and continuously improve the way we work
o Team-oriented: you take pride from team achievements and are ready to support and be supported by your team-mates.
o Very good communication skills, including remote meeting setups.

Technical Skills: Nice to have

o Dev Ops: Ansible playbooks, CloudBees pipelines, Docker
o Test Automation: Cucumber, Selenium, Selenium Grid
o Admin: test reports, Xray tests, designing test cases.

Candidates with the following skills will have an added advantage. Candidates without these skillets/knowledge are encouraged to apply if they have confidence and willing to be trained.
• Git/Bitbucket: Basic to good understanding
• SQL: Basic to good understanding
• Docker/CICD/DevOps: Basic to good understanding
• Test automation: Basic to good understanding
• Unix/Linux (SELinux): Basic to good understanding
• English: Basic to good understanding

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. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion , sexual orientation, or veteran/military status.