Test Associate

Proxymity does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Proxymity encourages application from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

About Proxymity

Proxymity is a market leading digital investor communications platform focused on providing regulatory compliant products, focused initially on Proxy Voting and Shareholder Disclosure services. Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from the very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole capital markets ecosystem, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from global consortium of some the industry’s most influential financial institutions.

Proxymity’s service offering is now a Global one, matching the needs of our custodian and broker community respectively. This is reflected by a fast-growing client base who have long desired an improved service by a trusted vendor. As a result, we are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 - 200+ employees in the last four years with a global footprint in London, New York, Tel-Aviv, Melbourne.

The role

Working in tandem with the QA, Product, Operations and Technology teams you will execute critical testing of new features and functions as well as play a part in pre-release regression testing. This is a demanding and fast-paced role playing a critical step in the platform development process.

You will write thorough and reusable test scripts, execute the scripts and record and document defects using the latest software development tools. You will communicate constantly with clients and team members, participate in daily stand-ups to ensure testing remains on track for a successful release. Significant scope for progression for the right candidate.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating test scripts using descriptions of features and functions developed in Jira and as demonstrated by Technology/Product team.
• Regression testing of existing features ahead of key deployments.
• Execution of test scripts.
• Documentation of all bugs identified in standardised documentation for prioritisation with Product and Technology team colleagues.
• Reporting test execution progress on an intra-day basis.
• Assisting with the creation of weekly internal and client-facing release notes.
• Assisting with the creation of user manuals for new features.

Requirements

• Strong software or system testing experience.
• Ability to interact with clients and internal partners effectively.
• Experience of using test management tools such as Quality Center and ALM
• Strong understanding of SQL.
• Understanding of Financial Services and post trade – ideally asset servicing.
• Experience with defect reporting and tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Ability to understand where new products impact existing infrastructure and features.
• Collaborative with strong communication skills.
• Ability to author and execute test scripts with little guidance.
• SWIFT messaging experience.
• API testing experience.

Benefits

• Headspace subscription 
• Birthday off in addition to annual leave 
• Access to Absorb Learning 
• Improved family-friendly policies 
• Work your way 
• Choose your tech 
• 2 duvet days a year 
• 1 volunteer day a year 
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity 
• Workation- Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year. 
• Companywide parties twice a year 
• Team drinks 
• A company wins programme 

• Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing etc. 
• A dog friendly office
• Complementary snacks and drinks in the office

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position. This will be completely anonymous and is in no way tied to your application. If you could please take a few minutes out of your day to complete this that would be much appreciated.