Business Unit:

Global Information Technology

Reporting To:

Associate Director, Application Development

Shift:

India (10:00 am - 7:00 pm IST) (India)

About Russell Investments, Mumbai:

Russell Investments is a leading outsourced financial partner and global investment solutions firm providing a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 87-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve the financial security of its clients. The firm is the world’s sixth-largest investment adviser, with $1 trillion in assets under advisement (as of June 30, 2022) and $288.3 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2023) for clients in 30 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States, Russell Investments has offices around the world, including London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai – and has opened a new office in Mumbai, India in June 2023.

Joining the new Mumbai office is an incredible opportunity to work closely with global stakeholders to support the technology and infrastructure that drives the investment and trading processes of a globally recognized asset management firm. Be one of the first to join this new team based out of Goregaon (East) in Mumbai and be a part of creating the foundation and culture for the firm’s growing operations in India. The Mumbai office operates 5-days a week from Monday to Friday with varying shifts to accommodate time zones around the world.

For more information, please visit https://www.russellinvestments.com.

Job Description:

Every day, we seek to improve financial security for people. Joining our Digital Technology Team means you will be a part of a passionate and supportive team that believes what we do matters to our clients and investors.

Software Development Engineer in Test works closely with end users, developers, and other stake holders in an agile environment. In this role you will be joining an Australian-based team supporting both external facing solutions (React/React Native stack) and internally used .NET based web applications. You will be contributing to both manual and automated test case creation and execution, and help define, document, code, and execute their testing plans. You will be involved in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, development, and product deployment.

Years of Experience

• 5+ years of experience in creation and execution of test plans/cases required
• 5+ years of experience creating test automation using Selenium required.
• 5+ years of experience with Programming Languages C#, nUnit and Powershell required
• 2+ years of experience in Appium/Mobile App Automated Testing (iOS, Android) preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Proven experience collaborating with multiple teams, including development and business unit teams, to deliver solutions through all aspects of the SDLC required.
• Proven ability to learn and to deliver solutions in multiple programming languages and technical environments required
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies required
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery required
• Experience with source control models and processes required
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills
• Focus on delivering Quality releases to client/customer
• Results Driven
• Ability to communicate clearly and build trusted relationships with others
• Demonstrated ability to take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm
• Ensures the (external or internal) client’s perspective is a driving force behind their decisions and actions.
• Demonstrated ability to be a collaborative team player with the ability to interact well with all levels of internal and external personnel and adapt to rapidly changing requirements
• Full time hours required, with additional hours as necessary

Responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of Agile Scrum methodology with the team providing input into estimation, planning and retrospectives.
• Analyze, design, and implement test solutions that support small development teams
• Work directly with business units to ensure that you have a solid understanding of the business goals and that the delivered solutions adhere to those goals
• Optimize application performance and stability by identifying, reporting, and writing tests for potential problems
• Develop maintainable automation following team standards in C#, using nUnit and Selenium
• Produce test scripts that integrate with the team’s automated process and tooling for build/deploy
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Core Values

• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and collaboration skills with all levels of management
• Strong organizational skills including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines,
• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong judgment and decision-making capability.
• Highly resourceful and collaborative team-player, with the ability to also be independently effective and exude initiative and a sense of urgency.
• Exemplifies our customer-focused, action-oriented, results-driven culture.
• Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities, has a desire for continuous learning, and proposes solutions.
• Ability to act with discretion and maintain complete confidentiality.
• Dedicated to the firm’s values of non-negotiable integrity, valuing our people, exceeding client expectations, and embracing intellectual curiosity and rigor.

Visit us: https://russellinvestments.com/us/careers