Lead Qa Engineer

Open Systems Technologies is a national provider of smart staffing solutions, providing contract staffing, permanent placements and executive searches in the following skill areas:

- Technology

- Finance, Accounting, and Operations

- Government Services

- Legal

- Global Services

Established in New York in 1990, Open Systems Technologies is one of the largest, privately held, staffing companies in the world. We have experienced organic growth over the past 25 years and currently employ over 1,500 consultants in 16 domestic and international markets. Through our brands of Open Systems, OST Financial, OST Legal, OST Government Services, and OST Global we strive for continued expansion and excellence in the staffing industry. With the Global Services division, starting Jan-2012, Open Systems has expanded into the ITO & BPO Projects/Solutions business.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA teams
• Lead Automation Stream to minimize manual regression suite and introduce coverage based on traceability matrix.
• Design new features and constantly improve automation framework (in-house built) for C++, Java & Web based applications using best industry standards.
• Develop robust, reusable and easily maintainable automation framework (in-house built).
• Provide automation development guidance to junior test developers.
• Build continues integration process so every release candidate can be quickly verified.
• Set up test environments and ensure that specified test sets are correctly executing on the proper code branches.
• Perform regular code reviews to verify automation code quality.
• Design comprehensive test plans and cases that cover functional and technical specifications, integration, compatibility, and performance.
• Perform manual functional, exploratory and negative testing, documenting test scripts and automating for regression.
• Document defects with steps to reproduce.
• Participate in periodic release activities as required.

Requirements

• BS in computer science or related field.
• Excellent communication skills
• 10+ years of experience with automated testing
• 8+ years of experience in quality assurance area
• 5+ years of experience in quality assurance management
• Experience testing foreign exchange, financial trading or risk management systems preferred.
• Strong development skills using a major programming language such as C++ or Java; expertise with test automation development is a must.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, XML and FIX.
• Expertise with QTP (UFT) is a plus; expertise with Fest, AssertJ, Junit, TestNG, Selenium is a plus.
• Ability to lead multiple resources working on one or more projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SDLC and STLC.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.