Quality Assurance Engineer for Financial Software

Who we are
For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s global provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 2,800+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated in our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

While continuing to deliver client value, we believe it is vital to consider our people and our planet in every business decision we make. Acting responsibly is not optional. It is essential.

Why this role is important to us
Valuation and Market Data is a product area of SimCorp Product Division, and responsible for pricing, key ratios, market/static data, application programming interfaces for financial instruments, implementation of majority of the financial engineering calculations, yield and volatility curves, factor attribution, and generic decomposition. SimCorp Dimension® offers a prime area for professional development, encompassing the financial instruments sector and software engineering, within a collaborative, diverse, and respectful team setting.

The product area includes six scrum teams, and position is in a team where software engineers are located and distributed in Copenhagen and Ukraine. This is a well-functioning and established team, and we are looking forward to getting a new colleague onboard.

You will also need to work with Product Owners, System Architects, a community of subject matter experts, and time to time collaboration with other Engineers in Product area and organization, to build new and maintain existing systems.

What you will be responsible for
You will be responsible for testing the financial solutions of SimCorp Dimension®, improving automation testing where possible. Part of the job is seeing different possibilities to move manual test flows to automation and helping to improve by giving good suggestions to teams building testing framework.

• Working with product management and your team to refine new features.
• Giving feedback on the product through exploratory testing.
• Creating, automating, and maintaining test scenarios.
• Build in quality thinking, mentoring team in test automation and ensure putting right mindset.
• Continuously learning, as well as developing yourself, the team, and our product.
• Gain knowledge of financial instruments and became an expert of a few financial instruments.

What you will bring
The following points would make you a stronger candidate:

• Curiosity, and attention to details
• Academic degree in:

Software engineering (or other engineering areas) and eager to gain financial knowledge Or

Financial areas and eager to gain software engineering knowledge.

• Experience in software quality assurance and test automation.
• Experience in financial instruments, or the desire to learn.
• Familiarity with (or interest to learn) programming and have desire to grow further.

Furthermore, we value that you

• Being a specialist, whose priority is to deliver the team’s commitments, regardless of the type of the work (assisting others, sharing knowledge, support and maintenance, test automation, reviews, feature refinement) with high quality.
• Taking responsibility and being proactive in order to achieve our overarching goals as a team.
• Positive attitude, growth mindset, and good communication skills

What we offer

• Joining a successful FinTech company composed of collaborative, curious, courageous, capable, and caring employees
• Wide range of learning and development opportunities, powered by a unique learning guild
• Highly skilled and welcoming colleagues, with diverse background
• A company that values and advocates diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Private health insurance, benefits and discounts, social clubs and activities

Next steps
We are interested in a range of seniorities and experience levels. SimCorp signed Gender Diversity Pledge under the Confederation of Danish Industry, aiming at reaching 40% women across all organizational levels. If you find this job interesting, please send your CV and motivational letter in English. In case you have questions, please reach out Senior Engineering Manager Asif Nadeem Anjum, through [email protected].

Location: Copenhagen