Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

Quality Assurance

• Work closely with other QA Engineers and Software Engineers to develop and maintain test frameworks and test environments for the execution of automated and manual tests.
• Work closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners to understand, write, refine, and implement various test scenarios. These will be used to help build a robust and efficient test suite for functional, non-functional and regression testing purposes.
• Within the Scrum team, work closely with other members to ensure software solutions meet our quality assurance standards.
• Proactively ensure that requirements are clear for any new feature, and that the acceptance criteria are appropriate prior to implementation.
• Prepare release plans and coordinate with the Release Manager for effective software delivery
• Work within the agile software development framework used across Fastmarkets
• Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained

Leadership and Collaboration

• Participating in and contributing to team meetings and stand ups, bring in new ideas
• Working collaboratively with other engineers, product developers and business analysts
• Helping to resolve support issues where appropriate

KEY INTERFACES

• Fastmarkets Engineering Manager
• Fastmarkets Software Engineers
• Fastmarkets Test Engineers
• Fastmarkets Business Analysts
• Digital Product Team
• Customer Success

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team.

Key Experience / Skills

• Strong background testing software solutions in a microservice environment
• Experience in at least one automation framework of the following:

o Cucumber + Playwright (ideal)

o Cucumber + Selenium

o Cucumber + Cypress

o Python Behave Framework

• ·Experience in end-to-end (e2e) testing

o Ability to integrate backend and frontend tests for e2e data assertion

o Ability to integrate testing solutions to CI/CD pipelines

o Experience in SQL and creating test data

• Excellent background in

o Analysing and setting up test scenarios

o Exploring positive and negative journeys

o Measuring and tracking test coverage

• Good understanding of development processes

o Agile (including Scrum and Kanban)

o Behaviour Driven Development

o Automated build and deploy processes including CI/CD pipelines

• Some basic knowledge of a modern programming language

Personal Attributes

1. Ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment.

2. Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies.

3. Results-driven, with a focus on providing the best customer outcomes.

4. Strong communicator in English: able to read and write documentation effectively and have good verbal communication skills

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.