Morningstar

About the role: We are looking for an amazing QA Engineer to help us build and maintain our exchange connectivity software.

Market Data powers all of Morningstar, as well as our clients so having the best of technology to do this is critical to the company’s success. We receive billions of messages every day from our direct financial exchange connections, which we process into a form useable by our customers. At present, process over 40 billion messages per day and with data volumes significantly increasing year-on-year, you can imagine how this needs a high level of quality to keep it under control.

You will need to work in an agile, multi-functional team of developers and testers to build and maintain our exchange connectivity components. You’ll need to be happy working in short cycles, with frequent deliveries while improving the overall quality of the development process.

Job responsibilities:

You will work within a team of approx. 4 developers and 2 QA, focused on building and maintaining our exchange connectivity software. You will need to work closely with developers as we see quality as being the responsibility of the whole team. You'll be developing test plans in collaboration with the developers and steadily building up our automated testing capability to continuously improve our development cycle.

Some key examples of the sort of work the team does:

• Work with developers to build up acceptance criteria for changes to exchange connectivity software.
• Execute tests to validate changes to the code, both manually and using automated techniques wherever possible
• Introduce or improve the automated setup and testing of feed handlers to make testing faster and more reliable.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a software development or similar essential
• Experience working as a QA engineer, developing and executing test plans.
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle

Nice to have:

• Some knowledge of programming languages (C++ would be great to help with unit tests but any other language also useful)
• Experience working on high throughput backend systems.
• Experience of automated testing tools and techniques

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Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.