Engineering & Quality - Software Engineer, Associate Director

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Fitch Technology is currently seeking a QA Engineer, Associate Director based out of our Chicago office.

About Fitch Group:  As a leading, global financial information services provider, Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights, robust data, and dynamic tools to champion more efficient, transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries, Fitch Group’s culture of credibility, independence, and transparency is embedded throughout its structure, which includes Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, and Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of insights, data and analytics.

With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

About the Team:

We are in search of an Engineer to elevate the quality assurance processes for our Fitch Ratings Workflow Analytical applications. This role entails close collaboration with the systems supporting the Fitch Ratings operations and analytical communities. The position offers a unique opportunity to gain a profound understanding of the business domain and to ensure the highest standards of system and data quality for Fitch Ratings.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Serve as a Testing Engineer on an agile squad, Mentor other engineers

Contribute to and develop sophisticated automation frameworks that are efficient, flexible, and reusable in Selenium

Integrate test case execution and reporting within the CI/CD pipeline to align with the Dev Ops strategy, criteria, requirements, and user stories

Work with cross-functional teams including business analysts, developers, and users to build and refine test strategies for your team as well as to ensure integrity of dependent systems

Influence the team to design and build for testability

Implement BDD practices and frameworks to enhance test automation and acceptance criteria

Work in the SDET capacity to automate early in conjunction with other engineer’s efforts to build systems.

You May be a Good Fit if:

8+ years of experience with automation testing, recent experience with Selenium and translating requirements into test cases using Selenium Java

4+ years integrating automated testing with Dev Ops tools (Bamboo/Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket) and working in Scrum-based Agile teams

4+ years of visual/UI testing and Rest Assured / Open API testing

Hands-on building reusable test components to validate AI-generated outputs against business logic, factual accuracy, and explainability standards is a plus.

Experience in leveraging code assistants like Amazon Q or Microsoft Copilot to accelerate test case creation, code suggestions and documentation to improve efficiency and accuracy

Experience testing event-driven services, message queues, and event brokers (Kafka)

Proficient in performance testing tools (JMeter, K6, Neoload, Load Runner)

Skilled in writing SQL/No

SQL queries for data verification

In-depth knowledge of Selenium Web Driver and DB testing with SQL

Solid understanding of BDD concepts, acceptance criteria and testing

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Ability to deliver high quality results in a complex environment by driving initiatives forward.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

Python code for testing and use of Python frameworks (Pandas, Numpy, Requests)

Experience in UFT automation tool

Exposure to Code quality metrics, and shift-left principles

Experience testing container resiliency (Docker/Kubernetes)

Experience designing large end to end performance scenarios

Experience adding performance validation to CI pipelines

Exposure to the financial industry domain and data platforms (data warehouses, data lakes)

Why Choose Fitch:

Hybrid Work Environment:  2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location

A Culture of Learning & Mobility:  Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity

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