We are looking for an intermediate level Quality Assurance Professional. The role involves working closely with the business analysts and developers to understand business requirements and technical structure. The ideal candidate should be experienced with various standard test methodologies, able to quickly acquire business and technical knowledge to come up with robust test cases, and work against aggressive timelines. The candidate will be required to define test strategies and test cases covering all aspect of functional, regression, and performance testing, and execute test cases independently or collaborate with other QA members in test execution. This will involve the rapid, programmatic creation and manipulation of test data, test execution and data validation in a primarily Unix/Linux environment. This candidate will also be expected to design, write and maintain backend automation scripts for testing. The successful candidate will recommend and influence changes to developers to further improve software quality.
Skills Required
• Perl scripting experience.
• SQL relational database experience. Sybase / stored procedures preferred.
• Unix /Linux environment.
• XML, XSD , SOAP a plus.
• Work closely with project teams to fully understand the business and system requirements of applications.
• Design and document a specific strategic test plan to cover specified requirements.
• 3-5+ years working in or leading a hands-on testing team
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Results oriented Skills Desired
Skills Desired
• Securities Reference Data knowledge: Equities, Fixed Income, Corp Actions, Entity Relationship Data, Commodities, and / or Derivatives.
• Open source testing tools such as Fitness, Bugzilla.
• Experience with MQ / publish - subscribe technologies.