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.