6 days ago
Belgrade, SerbiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own quality attestations and production release signoff as a Quality Engineering subject matter expert.
- Define and evolve test automation and quality engineering strategies aligned with architecture and business goals.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated UI, API, data, performance, resilience, and nonfunctional test frameworks and suites.
- Create comprehensive test scenarios and lead functional, nonfunctional, regression, and release testing activities.
- Drive shift-left testing through early test design, automation, and engineering collaboration.
- Track and communicate testing progress, quality metrics, risks, and delivery impacts to stakeholders.
- Analyze production incidents and defects to identify root causes and improvements.
- Improve test coverage, reduce defect leakage, and increase production stability.
- Guide, mentor, and provide technical leadership to QA engineers while collaborating with developers, product owners, and platform teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent degree or experience in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of experience in quality engineering or test automation roles.
- Senior QA and automation experience, preferably in financial services, asset management, regulated environments, or complex enterprise systems.
- Hands-on coding experience in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Deep knowledge of test automation frameworks, tools, and design patterns.
- Strong experience with API testing, data validation, distributed systems, performance testing, and RDBMS/SQL.
- Ability to define and lead QA initiatives that produce measurable quality improvements.
- Experience with Agile and DevOps environments, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, BDD/Cucumber, and API testing tools such as Postman or SoapUI.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, leadership, and cross-functional influence skills.
- Preferred familiarity with investment management, risk, regulatory, or data-intensive platforms.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development or testing tools such as GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT.
Benefits
- Retirement investment resources and tools.
- Education reimbursement.
- Resources supporting physical health and emotional well-being.
- Family support programs.
- Flexible Time Off (FTO).
- Hybrid work model requiring at least four days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home one day per week.
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About BlackRock
BlackRock is a public, New York–based global asset manager and technology provider founded in 1988. It offers investment products—including the iShares ETF franchise—and portfolio and risk management software via the Aladdin platform to institutions, financial advisors, and individual investors, earning primarily management and technology fees. Its shares trade on the NYSE, and the firm serves clients in major markets worldwide.