Software Testing Engineer (Avaloq, Banking, API Testing, Python, Azure Devops )

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements to identify test scenarios, impacts, and quality risks across enterprise applications.
• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Validate end-to-end business processes across UI, API, database, and backend systems to ensure data accuracy and system reliability.
• Prepare detailed test cases, test data, and test evidence while maintaining complete testing documentation.
• Perform API and database validation to ensure seamless integration between multiple applications and services.
• Support release validation activities, production deployments, and post-implementation verification.
• Investigate application issues, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with development teams to resolve defects.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and manage defects through their lifecycle using standard tracking tools.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks to improve testing efficiency and regression coverage.
• Monitor application performance and support production incident analysis to ensure service stability.
• Work closely with business users, product owners, developers, and project teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, testing standards, and quality assurance best practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in Avaloq core banking systems with exposure to implementation, testing, and production support.
• Strong experience in Functional Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Regression Testing.
• Hands-on experience in API testing and database validation using SQL.
• Experience validating complex business workflows and transaction-based applications.
• Knowledge of test planning, test case design, defect management, and release validation processes.
• Experience with defect tracking and project management tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps.
• Exposure to test automation using tools such as Playwright and scripting languages such as Python.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience supporting production issues, incident analysis, and application releases is preferred.
• Exposure to banking, financial services, enterprise platforms, or large-scale transactional systems will be an added advantage.