Quality Assurance Engineer , Associate

About this role

Role - Associate AQE

APG -QA is a globally distributed team supporting Quality Engineering initiatives for Apps on the Aladdin. The Testing team employs use of industry-leading tools to support the testing activities.

Job Purpose/Background: The Associate - Aladdin Quality Engineering (AQE) will support the coordination, execution, and ownership of quality strategy, automation, and engineering excellence across Aladdin platforms, with a strong focus on Wealth management, Asset Management workflows spanning multiple facets of Asset management.

This role is responsible for enabling and implementing automation-first, AI-enabled quality engineering, ensuring scalable, resilient, and audit-ready delivery for mission-critical financial systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality & Automation

• Develop and maintain automated test suites

across UI, API, and backend layers using modern automation frameworks to improve test coverage and efficiency. •

by investigating failures, reporting issues clearly, and supporting continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Test Engineering & Framework Design

• Own and evolve test framework architecture, including UI automation - Playwright (preferred), Selenium
• API & backend testing - including but not limited to API's and Messaging services.
• Knowledge and exposure to nonfunctional testing like Performance, Security and Chaos testing is favorable.
• Implement robust error reporting, failure analysis, and test result assurance mechanisms.
• Solid understanding of one or more programming languages - TypeScript ( preferred), Java , C#, Go etc.

AI Driven Quality Engineering

• Actively leverage Artificial Intelligence to enable and enhance acceleration of testing cycles
• by improving test design, execution and to overall product quality.
• Ability to intelligently

• including but not limited to optimal code generation, coverage and maintenance optimisation.
• Should be able to apply

for additional automation tasks like failure analysis/categorisation, root cause analysis etc.

• Stay up to date with

to continuously identify opportunities for innovation within Quality Engineering.

• Should possess ability and zeal to contribute to

practices , adopting and promoting tools and techniques that enhance team productivity and testing effectiveness - like Spec Engineering, Token Optimisation etc.

Required Skills / Experience:

The candidate is encouraged to possess and be able to demonstrate the following:

• B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area
• 4+ years of proven experience in Software Quality Assurance in a financial services firm (e.g., Investment Banking,

), including writing manual tests (positive and negative), test automation development and execution.

• Good exposure with Testing methodologies, Test plan, Test strategy, RTM and Test estimation etc. with experience in UI testing

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person - aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work - enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we've provided