Senior Software Qa Analyst, For The Financial Planning Engine

Full-time • Remote 

At NewRetirement, our aim is to enable anyone to live better by making the most of their money and time. Our comprehensive Financial Planning platform allows everyone to create a financial plan and understand how decisions they make today can impact their future. 

We have seen exponential growth as we expand into large enterprise sales from our base in direct-to-consumer financial management tools. We need bright, motivated people to join us at this crucial expansion phase and play a key part in taking our company to the next level.

About the Role 

We’re looking for a dynamic Sr Software QA Analyst to join our growing team. Working as part of the Engineering organization, you will help to develop and grow our QA practice and methodology while also contributing direct testing for our product releases. Our product set encompasses direct-to-consumer financial management tools, a white-label enterprise Financial Planning platform, financial mini-tools, and our best-in-class financial projection API that enables a variety of customized experiences. Working with a cross-functional team (Product, Design, Engineering, Enterprise Success, and Services), you’ll deliver test plans, test scripts, analysis, and documentation around testing activities with an emphasis on our Financial Planning Engine system.

If you thrive at the real-world intersection of people, software, design, and data, and you want to help drive critical projects at an exciting business in high-growth mode, you’re the type of person we want to work with. As a member of an early-stage startup you will influence the impact and success of the company – if this excites you then please apply! 

What you will do:

• Promote and enhance our QA strategy, processes, procedures, and best practices 
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing across the platform with major emphasis on the Financial Planning Engine (FPE) system
• Support the QA team to drive the adoption of automated testing
• Work closely with the Data Architect and Product team to coordinate code releases to Production
• Record, log and track defects in the system in order to coordinate resolution with the development team and functional leads 
• Define and maintain QA metrics for quantitative reporting and iterative improvement 
• Write, review and execute test plans and test cases to ensure product release quality 

What you bring: 

• 7+ years experience in quality assurance for a digital product 
• Demonstrated success in shipping quality products in a fast-paced environment High degree of competence with QA software and testing suites for accessible, responsive, cross-browser web applications 
• Comfortable working directly with JSON, web service APIs and tools like Postman
• Comfortable working with and manipulating spreadsheets
• Experience managing/analyzing multiple versioned datasets
  • Ability to write ad-hoc scripts (Python/Shell/Node/etc.) on said datasets is a nice to have 
• Solid understanding of core financial and tax concepts (for example: periodic rate calculation, progressive tax bracket calculations, tax deduction logic, etc.)
• QA experience on data science projects
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with other teams within the organization
• Systematic approach to problem solving and strong attention to detail 
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience 

We want to be as inclusive as possible in our hiring process. If you don’t have 100% of what we’re looking for, but feel like you’re pretty close to growing into the role — please still apply. If a candidate has only 80% of the skills but a fantastic attitude and perspective, they might be the perfect fit.

NewRetirement values the unique perspectives and contributions of all individuals and we strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including and not limited to people of any race, ethnicity, or national origin, individuals with differing abilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, veterans, gender minorities, women and people from underrepresented communities.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with differing abilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodations, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. If you are comfortable doing so we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.

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