Junior Quality Assurance Engineer

Five Sigma helps investors, originators and asset owners execute, monitor and scale private-credit and asset-backed-finance transactions through specialist advisory services and ABIDE, its proprietary asset-management platform.

Technology is central to our business, and we are continuing to invest in our engineering capabilities to build scalable, reliable and high-quality products.

Role Description

We are looking for a Junior QA Engineer to join our growing technology team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone at the beginning of their QA career who is looking to develop their technical testing skills within a fast-paced financial technology environment.

Working closely with Software Engineers, Product and other stakeholders, you will help ensure that new features and enhancements are thoroughly tested and meet the required standards before being released to users.

You will have the opportunity to develop your experience across manual and automated testing, API testing, regression testing, while gaining exposure to a modern technology stack.

Key Accountabilities:

• Create and execute manual test cases based on product requirements and technical specifications.

• Perform functional, regression, integration and exploratory testing.

• Identify, document and track defects, working closely with Software Engineers to investigate and resolve issues.

• Support the development and maintenance of automated test scripts.

• Perform API testing and validate data and system integrations.

• Contribute to regression testing ahead of software releases.

• Work with developers and Product stakeholders to understand requirements and identify potential quality issues early in the development process.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.

• Maintain clear and accurate QA documentation, test cases and test results.

• Help improve QA processes, testing standards and automation practices across the engineering team.

• Develop an understanding of the ABIDE platform and the financial processes it supports

Candidate Experience

• 1–2 years' experience in a QA, Software Testing or Software Engineering environment.

• Understanding of software development and testing principles.

• Experience with manual testing and writing test cases.

• Agile/Scrum development environments

• Basic understanding of automated testing concepts.

• Basic understanding of APIs and HTTP.

• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases would be beneficial.

Desirable Experience

• Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or similar testing frameworks.

• JavaScript/TypeScript or another programming language would be advantageous.

• Docker experience.

• Experience using logging tools like Grafana or relatively similar.

• API testing tools such as Postman.

• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing within deployment pipelines.

• Git/GitHub.

• Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS