Senior Specialist - Quality Assurance

Job Description

Your role and responsibilities:

• In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in a strong experienced team delivering complex technology solutions to international clients.

• You will work with, and learn from subject matter experts, and have the opportunity to take on more responsibility and progress within the Quality Assurance team.

• Document test strategy, test cases, prepare test environment, perform integration and system testing, regression testing, and raise defects in the system.

• Independently test the software systems end to end and perform root cause analysis of issues observed during the testing cycle.

• Effective communication skills, with excellent ability to question vague requirements and be comfortable in presenting testing strategies in front of any audience.

• Analytical skills with a structured approach, a great teammate and someone who has a goal for improving business best practices and a passion for problem solving.

We expect you to have : 


• At least 8-12 years of software testing experience specifically in Server-Side Testing with strong back-end testing knowledge and proven record of using UNIX/Linux command line tools and regular expression (grep, sed, Perl, awk, etc.)

• Must have commercial experience with Linux based scripting languages, such as Bash and Python.

• Financial Services, Trading or Capital Markets domain experience is preferred.

• Should have a can-do positive attitude and able to multi-task multiple project priorities.

• Must be proactive, act as an owner and able to follow-up on the blocking issues affecting release schedule and look for alternative test solutions.

• Should be able to identify the project risks in terms of the testing perspective and meeting committed deadlines.

• Must be able to determine the scope of testing based on the business requirements and technical specifications.

• Ability to independently plan and set up the test environment and focus on getting the things done till completion.

• Ability to analyze the test results, perform deep dive investigation and root cause analysis of the data.

• Ability to mentor, guide and train more junior QA team members.

• Bachelor/Master in computer science, Information Systems or related discipline.

It would be great if you :

• Experience working with multiple asset classes (equity, commodities, fixed income)

• Experience in working with high transaction volumes.

• Experience in testing applications/service hosted in AWS.

• Previous experience working in Compliance, Regulation, Surveillance domain or any other related domain.

• Experience in developing and maintaining testing tools/framework to be used by the broader team using Bash, Python, etc.

• Specialist Certifications in QA/Testing Methodology.