Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore, and Dubai.

The firm seeks to hire a highly experienced and detail-oriented Automated Test Engineer / QA Automation Lead to design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks for complex, data-driven financial applications. The ideal candidate will have 8-12 years of experience in software testing withing Wall Street environments, with a proven record of implementing robust automated testing strategies across multiple concurrent projects. This role requires deep understanding of quantitative model testing, integration testing, and cloud-based application testing, working closely with developers, quants, and business users to ensure all deliverables are reliable, performant, and production-ready.

The QA Automation Lead will work as part of the Core Services group at Burford and will be contributing on a variety of data and software projects, interacting with the firm’s wide range of evolving set of tools and platforms. The person will be responsible for producing the firm’s internal testing tools and platforms, collaborating with the Head of Software, Head of Data Management, developers, business analyst, business stakeholders, and vendors to design and execute solutions that are aligned with company goals and priorities. The ideal candidate will be an energetic, “can do” individual, willing to share his/her/their expertise with others, dig in deep and do whatever is needed to accomplish results.

The role will report to the Head of Software Engineering and will be based out of the Singapore office.

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

Burford Capital is the largest and most experienced provider of commercial finance to the legal sector in the world, with a core expertise in identifying and optimizing the value of legal assets for companies and law firms. Since its founding in 2009, Burford has worked with hundreds of law firms and corporations, including 94 of the AmLaw 100 and 92 of the Global 100 largest law firms. Our team has grown from five people at the end of 2009 to over 150 people today, including over 45 lawyers.

Burford possesses the resources and expertise of a large company while retaining the flexibility and creativity of a startup. Team members are smart, creative, collaborative, curious, and confident. Everyone rolls up their sleeves to perform and engage collectively for the overall success of the business. Burford values rigorous thinking, clear communication, and efficient execution. Burford is an “always on” environment in which everyone needs to be accessible by email when outside the office, including during evenings and weekends

Burford pays base salaries consistent with the financial services industry and favors incentive compensation to reward performance. Burford Capital is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, whether or not they have a disability.

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