QA Analyst (Strong Finance Background Mandatory)
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Title: QA Analyst Location: NYCDuration: Contract Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following):Qualifications, Experience, and Education:
- BS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Economics or related major
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in a Quality Assurance position in support of financial trading and/or portfolio management applications in equity instruments
- The candidate must have experience in structured Testing methodology, with a proven ability to breakdown business requirements into functional components
- Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support
- The candidate must also be strong in documenting test plans and test scripts to verify application functionality
- The candidate must have excellent communication, interpersonal and client interaction skills as they will be required to work closely with business analysts, a diverse group of users, IT senior management and application developers, to develop test strategies and to help define, organize, and evolve the QA practice into a more structured discipline
- Familiarity with the concepts and application of automated test tool technologies (Framework concepts, Unified Functional Test, Test Complete, Selenium, etc.) to effectively contribute to planning out automated testing strategies
- Experience with relational database technology, SQL queries and SQL programming
- Knowledge of equities trading concepts, industry practices and workflows are vital, especially in the areas of portfolio optimization, as well as equity and mutual fund trading
- Keen understanding of SDLC and STLC in both a traditional waterfall or an agile software development setting
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a requirement for this role
- Detail oriented, self-starter and a team player
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience writing, managing, and executing end to end test plans and test cases
- Ability to influence and persuade team members when needed
- Experience leading and working with offshore teams
- Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), JIRA or similar tools for managing regression testing and defect tracking
- Ability to manage multiple, competing tasks to meet deadlines in a rapidly changing environment
- Familiarity with order management and trading applications in the equity brokerage or asset management space
- Experienced project leader with ability to formulate testing strategies with limited availability of documentation or support
- Prior supervisory responsibility over a small team is preferred