Quality Assurance Tester

With offices in London, Dublin, and Portugal, we are disrupting and transforming a significant part of one of the biggest markets in the World – foreign currency hedging.

We are innovating, modernising, and reinventing a $4.6 Trillion per day antiquated and broken marketplace for some of the essential financial risk management products that everyday businesses need to manage their currency risk exposure. Assure Hedge has a very important reason for its existence.

With offices in London, Dublin, and Portugal, we are disrupting and transforming a significant part of one of the biggest markets in the World – foreign currency hedging.

Assure Hedge is leading innovation and digitisation and in turn, is cultivating a completely transformative OTC hedging platform and marketplace for FX Brokers and financial institutions (London and Europe).

Our company is financially regulated as a MiFID firm (European Investment Firm) and as such can create the OTC hedging instrument as a principal. The firm is also authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to hold client funds.

We are searching for a Quality Assurance Engineer to support our Tech Team based in Coimbra in Portugal and Dublin in Ireland in assessing the quality of the software artifacts which are produced during the normal software development cycles.

This candidate should have a keen eye for detail, good communication skills in English, be competent in executing test cases and be passionate about quality.

• Have a BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role
• Experience in project management and QA methodology
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Full fluency in English, both written and spoken, is an absolute requirement of this role as all communication is through English

• Read, analyse, and understand the requirements documentation for each of the software artifacts
• Produce test specifications to validate these requirements
• Produce automated test case scripts where applicable
• Execute manual testing by following the specified test cases
• Running and maintaining the automated test case scripts
• Gathering evidence when test cases fail in the form of list of executed steps, screen shots, videos, traces of request/responses, etc.
• Log all evidences in a defect tracking system
• Interact with the development team to help reproduce and debug the issues
• Provide test reports for each test cycle
• Provide regular reporting to the CFO that is provided to the management and the Board

• Jira and X-Ray for defect tracking, ticket logging and bug tracking
• Basic Linux commands to access log files and collect evidences for defects
• Basic SQL knowledge to access databases and collect evidences for defects
• Knowledge of test automation tools, such as Cypress