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Quality Assurance Specialist

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SmartRecruiters

Quality Assurance
Málaga, Spain
Posted on Sep 25, 2025

Company Description

Talan – Positive Innovation

Talan is an international consulting group specializing in innovation and business transformation through technology. With over 7,200 consultants in 21 countries and a turnover of €850M, we are committed to delivering impactful, future-ready solutions.

Talan at a Glance

Headquartered in Paris and operating globally, Talan combines technology, innovation, and empowerment to deliver measurable results for our clients. Over the past 22 years, we’ve built a strong presence in the IT and consulting landscape, and we’re on track to reach €1 billion in revenue this year.

Our Core Areas of Expertise

  • Data & Technologies: We design and implement large-scale, end-to-end architecture and data solutions, including data integration, data science, visualization, Big Data, AI, and Generative AI.

  • Cloud & Application Services: We integrate leading platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and IBM Maximo, helping clients transition to the cloud and improve operational efficiency.

  • Management & Innovation Consulting: We lead business and digital transformation initiatives through project and change management best practices (PM, PMO, Agile, Scrum, Product Ownership), and support domains such as Supply Chain, Cybersecurity, and ESG/Low-Carbon strategies.

We work with major global clients across diverse sectors, including Transport & Logistics, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Retail, and Media & Telecommunications.

Job Description

The ION QA team works with the development teams to test high performance exchange connections and complex trading functionality.

  • Analyse requirements for end-to-end testing, create test design document and execute ensure functionality.
  • Remain involved throughout the analysis and development process to provide early feedback on usability and functionality of the feature being developed.
  • Perform Release testing within defined timelines to deliver bug free solution.

Qualifications

Technical Skills Required:

  • Ability to analyze and understand logs.
  • Agile frameworks (Scrum). JIRA
  • Experience working in Electronic Market platforms, FI Markets.
  • 3+ years of demonstrated experience in Testing
  • 2+ years of demonstrated experience in ION.
  • Creation/Maintenance of the test scenarios and their alignment to the latest software release
  • Monitor and troubleshoot test scenario execution
  • Report and document test evidences and anomalies
  • Experience with CI workflows, source code and management systems tools (Jenkins, ArtiFactory, BitBucket)
  • ALM
  • English B2
  • Experience on some of these Technologies: Gherkin, Cucumber
  • Programming: Python, Java
  • Competent in SQL. Familiarity with databases and managing different data formats: XML, JSON.

Nice to have Skills:

  • Work in group
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Ability to assess priority and self-organize tasks to meet deadlines

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

  • Full-time contract.
  • Smart Office Pack so that you can work comfortably from home.
  • Training and career development.
  • Benefits and perks such as private medical insurance, life insurance.
  • Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.
  • Hibrid position based in Málaga, Spain. Realocation is mandatory
  • Possibility to manage work-permits.

If you have read this far and you are looking forward to joining this challenge, do not hesitate to apply... we would be delighted to meet you!