Securities Finance Technical QA - Contract at Jefferies, London Area, £Contract Rate

Company

Jefferies, a global investment bank and securities firm, has served companies and their investors for over 60 years. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in more than 25 cities around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities for institutional investors and high net worth individuals.

Job Description:

As part of the Equity Technology team, an opportunity exists for a consultant tester to join the small Securities Finance team to support the UK/EU T+1 Regulatory initiative.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Perform manual and automated testing to ensure software quality.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and issues.
• Experience in regression and integration testing of both front-end and back-end applications.
• Analyze requirements and design logical test scenarios to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

Qualifications/ Experience:

• Create test strategy, test plans and test cases for projects managed through Agile development Methodology.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Create detailed bugs in Jira with adequate data on the issues and collaborate with development teams to resolve the bugs.
• Perform ad-hoc, negative, regression and integration testing.
• Hands-on experience in API automation with Cucumber, Selenium.
• Strong Knowledge of Java/Python programming language.
• Proficiency in SQL and database management systems (e.g., MySQL, SQL Server).
• Experience with Jira, Bitbucket.
• Understanding of Securities Lending is desirable, preferably with prior experience in this or a related area, e.g., Equity swaps.
• Active experience of AI productivity tools (e.g., CoPilot/Claude) to enhance, maintain test cases.

Additional Skills:

• Must be able to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Ability to work with colleagues around the world.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience in performance testing tools e.g., JMeter.