Our Team:

Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Leaders and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our high quality global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, infrastructure, design and grit.

Our Product Groups:
Institutional Investor - developing some of our flagship products like Morningstar Direct for institutional investors and our Advisor products for financial advisors
Data - this is the heart of Morningstar where all data is sourced, collected, transformed, calculated and distributed across the world
Individual Investor - building products like Morningstar.com and mobile apps for individuals like yourself
Workplace - this is where we build and provide our hosted digital advice platform for retirement plans etc. (what some call robo-advisors)

The Role:
At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for QA Automation Engineers or Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET) who specialize in full stack QA (Webservice/APIs, Front end, Data & Non-Functional testing) to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and help develop products that empower our users. Every day you'll work with team members across disciplines developing products for investors. You'll interact daily with our product managers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. We want to work with other engineers who bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities. These positions are based in our London office.

Responsibilities
• Build a test automation framework, as well as play a part in maintaining our existing suite of automated tests, to be used by the entire Agile squad
• Develop and maintain functional test cases, System & Integration Test cases and test artifacts like test data, test cases and automated scripts used in SDLC
• Review functional requirements and determine the data requirements for executing the use cases end to end, from creating functional manual cases to automating the cases for regression
• Execute manual or automated test cases that validate the functionalities, code quality and reports test results, following all formal test architectures and project processes
• Ownership and autonomy to work on tasks and be pro-active in managing them end to end
• Research emerging test tools, trends and methodologies and enhance existing systems and processes
• Act as test lead in various work streams working closely with Product Managers and Developers, while collaborating across teams
• Work closely with our SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) function to blend the boundaries between automated QA testing and production monitoring

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent plus a minimum of 3 years of working experience in a related field
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of software quality assurance principles and practice
• Hands on experience with:
- API testing tools like SoapUI and Postman
- Testing tools and frameworks like Selenium, JMeter, Cucumber and TestRail
- Programming/scripting languages like C#, Groovy, Python, Ruby
- SQL and relational databases
- Git, JIRA and Agile/Scrum methodologies
is required
• Experience in continuous integration and code review practice is strongly desired
• Good engagement and collaboration skills and a strong team player
• Pro-active, flexible and creative
• Experience in handling multiple projects with changing priorities and meeting concurrent deadlines
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and container services would be a plus

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.